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Looking Through A Glass Onion

Looking Through A Glass Onion

John Waters Schedules Week Long Melbourne Glass Onion Residency

by Paul Cashmere on April 7, 2014

in Live,News

John Waters’ musical John Lennon biography will play a one-week residency in Melbourne in June.

Waters first began performing Looking Through A Glass Onion with Stewart D’Arrietta in 1992. It has become one of the most successful and longest running shows in Australian performing history.

“It began its life as a small venue piece with just Stewart D’Arrietta and myself on stage at the Tilbury Hotel in Sydney,” says John Waters. “I made my entrance from a kitchen and climbed over patron’s laps to scramble onto a tiny raised platform in the corner of the room.  The audience and I were inescapably intimate with each other from the very start, and I kinda like that.  Not every venue we play this time around can be exactly like that, but it’s the feeling I want to create – to take the show back to its roots”.

Waters performs 31 Lennon and Beatles songs in the show pieced together to tell the story of the life of John Lennon. The ‘White Album’ song ‘Glass Onion’ is the shows centrepiece. “The song Glass Onion was John Lennon’s postscript to The Beatles.  It had such a strong image of crystal ball-gazing and peeling away the layers that it inspired the format for this show – a kaleidoscope collage of song, word, emotion and image”, says D’Arrietta.

Looking Through A Glass Onion Melbourne dates

June 24, Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.30pm
June 25, Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.30pm
June 26, Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.30pm
June 27, Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.30pm
June 28, Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 2pm and 8pm
June 29, Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.30pm

Bookings: www.ticketmaster.com.au

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