ENTERTAINMENT ARIES: With your ruler Mars in Taurus and Mercury
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being your impetuous, impulsive self. Sure, you’re enthused and inspired, but slow down. Be thoughtful. Listen to feedback without interrupting or talking over it, because even the critical kind offers valuable insights. TAURUS: This week’s Mercury fires off ideas with excited enthusiasm, but may lack the concentrated staying power to pursue them. Cue Mars moving into your sign with – voila! – all the drive and determination you require, along with a powerful desire to acquire. Reminder: Harmony’s more important than results, which can always follow later.
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GEMINI: With your planet mentor Mercury in hotwired Aries tossing a firecracker into this week’s proceedings, you might find yourself reassessing friendships or called on to honour a forgotten promise. Quickest route to understanding other people’s motivations and solving problems? Turn down your logic/reason switch and listen to your intuition.
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CANCER: This week features the modern version of the seven dwarfs: Moody, Grumpy, Cranky, Grouchy, Weepy, Whiney and Blamey. Dealing with which may call for tough love, difficult decisions and arrangement changes – any or all of the above – though the most amusing approach would be via your whimsical, magical, inventive Cancerian imagination.
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LEO: Current cosmic conditions issue a challenge to change your thinking about someone or something, and upgrade your behaviour in challenging situations. When encountering negativity or negligible support, your theatrical majesties are advised against stubbornly digging into an entrenched position. Also that this week less is definitely more effective than more.
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VIRGO: This week shines a spotlight on the elephant in the room, enabling you to move forward as an agent for change, adviser, teacher, counsellor, friend with sympathetic ear, or just in your natural Virgo role of caretaker and protector. Late-week Scorpio moon makes decisions, weekend Sagittarian moon gets them up and running.
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SCORPIO: Mars is currently giving you the grit and grunt needed to stand firm and stay cool during this week’s relationship complications and moody changes of pace. Not all news will be welcome or surprises delightful, so if by late-week Scorpio moon you’re feeling reclusive, then withdraw for rest and regrouping.
Costuming has been a major effort in preparation for the show that has been described as one of Noël Coward’s comic masterpieces. So this is how the story goes… The program will begin with Ruth is finding intolerable the traditional collection of the presence in materialised weaving materials and dyes by These workshops offer a unique form of Charles’s first wife, the Kunwinjku women in the opportunity for participants to Elvira, who died seven years Northern Territory. The twoengage and meet with both previously. She cannot see week cultural exchange will Bundjalung and Kunwinjku Elvira, but distrusts her open with an official welcome women, to share their culture fiercely, and has been unable to country in Casino by the and wisdom and learn the to achieve her wish to have Bundjalung for the Kunwinjku respective techniques of each this rival exorcised. The women where land council group. rivalry over Charles is fierce members, traditional owners, The Weaving and Cultural and Charles is quite selfelders and local government Workshop is on Saturday satisfied about it. He sees little representatives will be present. 1 April & Sunday 2 April at wrong with being what Ruth There will be an introduction to Clunes Old School Site, sarcastically calls an astral Bundjalung Nation and culture 17 Walker Street, Clunes. bigamist. Charles’s translation that will be followed by a field 10am–4pm. $245 (cost includes to Ruth of Elvira’s words trip to collect weaving materials materials, native from both is often very funny as he and grasses locally. regions). sanitises it to keep the peace and fields comments from each about the other. Such humour of situation occurs throughout the play.
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collective based in Casino, and a group of Kunwinjku women textile artists from Injalak Arts, Oenpelli, Northern Territory, will be happening in late March.
At the completion of the two-week cultural exchange program the Bundjalung and Kunwinjku women will open the doors to offer a workshop for interested women both Indigenous and nonIndigenous.
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The jealousy is fierce in both directions and Ruth becomes more and more incensed. Written by Noël Coward and directed by Fran Legge, Blithe Spirit will be staged at the Players Theatre 24 from March till 1 April. Thursday till Saturday evenings 8pm, Sunday matinees 2pm. Saturday 1 April matinee 2pm. Book online at www. ballinaplayers.com or at Just Funkin Music, 6686 2440.
CAPRICORN: This week offer insights into repetitive patterns, yours and other people’s, along with astral support to morph these into more enjoyable and beneficial behaviours fostering reciprocal blessings. Mars in a fellow earth sign amping up your selfassurance is a good thing, though it does makes empathy a very necessary accessory. AQUARIUS: If present celestial energies rip the bandaid off sensitive issues, brattish behaviour or passionate tantrums could ensue. Hurt feelings will do that. As this week’s tricky choreography segues from receptive to assertive, cooperative to argumentative and back again, your recommended diet is humble pie, honest porridge and truth tea.
LIBRA: As this week shifts into high gear, an influx of needy people pushing their agendas could drain your support and resources. Which means you may have to say the dreaded N-word – never your favourite. But keep in mind the swings and roundabouts equation: Less in one area equals more in another…
THAT'S THE BALLINA SPIRIT
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SAGITTARIUS: Mercury in assertive, quick-tempered Aries is impatient with delay or opposition, sending touchy subjects nuclear in nanoseconds during this week’s economic urgencies and emotional moments. Your mantra while moving cautiously through stormclouds lit by intermittent lightning streaks of good news? All the way to heaven is heaven…
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PISCES: This week Mars charges up your public and private lives, Jupiter wants you defusing divisive attitudes (first your own, then where possible, others’), and Uranus the Rearranger throws in the odd financial surprise. A feisty week, in which someone who seems annoyingly pushy could actually be heading you in the right direction.
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ALL STAR COMEDY COME BACK THE DOUG ANTHONY A L L STA R S B U R ST O N TO T H E CO M E DY S C E N E B AC K IN 1984, FINDING THEIR P L AC E I N T H E H E A RT S O F S AT I R E - LOV I N G A U S S I E S O N T H E W E E K LY B I G G I G . Around 1994 they disbanded, but now, more than two decades on, they make a comeback, with Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott welcoming Paul Livingston to the stage in place of the now serious and very respected ABC host, one-time fellow DAAS dickhead and guitarist, Richard Fidler. Tim Ferguson spoke with The Echo about getting the band back together. So why did you get the ‘band’ back together? We have un-finished business with Lismore. They know what we’re talking about. What did it feel like stepping onstage again after all this time? That was in 2013, when I could actually step (thanks for reminding me). It was daunting; they’re funny guys, with fashion sense and educated palates. These days, I get wheeled onstage. Much easier, especially when I’m drunk.
CRAFTING COMEDY
Why didn’t Richard do it? Is he too serious now?
Over the last few months the Byron Brewery has opened its beergarden to the delights of craft comedy. Hundreds of people have been flocking to enjoy the ambient surrounds, have an ice-cold beer and a laugh. Home Crafted Comedy is the regular open mic comedy night and features new and emerging comedians doing five minutes of their schtick. MC is the father of four, the one-time bank manager, turned chef, turned comedian, Paul McMahon. Free show on Thursday from 8pm.
Richard is too smart to hang around McDermott, Livingston and me. Plus, it’s hard to get a man in a tour van when he owns elite racehorses. What has been the biggest challenge for you guys besides not having Richard? Everything. Richard used to carry the luggage. And his telephone manner was impeccable. The voice! These days, we tour without luggage or telephones, so it’s very challenging. What has the reaction been to DAAS? The UK laughed, wept and gave us a prize (Edinburgh Spirit Of The Fringe Award).
The USA gawked at us with their customary dismay and horror. But they gave us their money. All of it. What’s your show content – how much is new, how much is from the vault? A couple of the pretty songs are back (for the mums and their new lovers). The rest of the show is a fresh collection of songs, witticisms and one joke. But we’ve kept the sex, violence and pet care – the classics. You’ve been lecturing and teaching comedy now for some time. Does that make you more nervous about making mistakes or taking risks, or does it give you a better idea of what will work? Teaching comedy writing is far more nervewracking than performing. Explaining irony to Americans is our nightmare! Onstage, there is nothing to fear. We’re the Doug Anthony Allstars – it’s the audience who are nervous. As for mistakes, we make them all the time, often on purpose. What’s the weirdest thing that’s happened on the road thus far? The Byron Bay hippy couple. Joyous at the time but, once we thought about it, unacceptable. It’s a weird career, comedy. Did you ever stop and wonder what the hell you were doing? What did you do after that? Comedy is a perfectly normal career. It’s travelling salesmanship. Working 9–5 goes against every human instinct. What should we expect for your show in Lismore? Nudity, comedy, gratuitous filth, hillsongs you’ll love. And a tongue.
DOUG ANTHONY ALLSTARS NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE THURSDAY 6 APRIL, 2017, LISMORE CITY HALL DOORS 7:30PM. BAR OPEN FROM 6.30PM. ADULT $47 SENIOR/CONC $41 BOOKINGS: LISMORECITYHALL.COM.AU OR 1300 066 772
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