presents
PETTING ZOO
ERTH VISUAL AND PHYSICAL INC., SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
Date and Time: Sat 14 March, 11.30am & 3pm
Venue: St James Theatre
Price: $16.50 per person
Duration: 45 minutes
Age: 3 years and up
About the performance
Look at the hatchlings but be careful not to step on the eggs. If you’re lucky you’ll get to feed the animals – this Zoo is just a little different. The babies might be cute but when their life-size pre-historic parents come home things get really interesting! Let you imagination go wild…
These amazing creatures have been bred by the renowned talents of Erth and offer the chance to meet long-extinct reptiles close-up. Performers bring the dinosaur-puppets to life to make a unique and unforgettable experience for the whole family.
Want to know more?
Founded in 1990 in Ballarat Victoria, Erth Visual and Physical Inc. headed interstate to perform at the Sydney Festival in 1994. The experience inspired the company to relocate from its country home and is now recognised as an innovator of physical and visual theatre both nationally and overseas. Throughout their history, they have built a reputation for prolific, accessible and highly original work.
Erth combines a truly fantastic aesthetic with performance, using giant puppets, stilts, inflatable’s and aerial techniques to create productions such as: Incubator, Gargoyles, Waterheads, Caution, Bushfire, The Garden and Gondwana. Their work spans roving style street theatre to larger scale, site-specific productions.
Erth tour to major Australian and international festivals. These have included Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide Festivals, Hong Kong Fringe, Galway Arts Festival – Ireland, Stockton Riverside Festival – UK, Singapore Arts Festival and the Festival of Arts and Ideas – Connecticut USA. Erth also undertake community workshops, cultural development projects and mentorships.
A small core team of artists manage dozens of freelancers. They come from diverse disciplines such as sculpture, painting, costume design, and mechanical engineering to the performance arts of musical, physical, circus and aerial theatre.