Horizon Arts

As the Heroine for Breakfast adventure comes to a close, I’m really sad to be going home, but what an amazing time I’ve had over the last month, and this weekend really did top it off! Performing to sell out audiences at the Holden street theatre, with the added standing ovations and being nominated for two awards.  So what else has the Heroin(e) gang been up to? Yesterday, Kate, Hayley, Craig Lomas and I, went swimming with wild dolphins in the middle of the Australian sea, which was a great experience, however, the picture below shows my horror when asked to breathe through a snorkel.

Look how much I love snorkelling!

We also had a day out at Cleland Park which was fantastic, stroking the koala bears, and seeing the Tasmanian devils and dingo’s being fed, but what really topped the day off for me had to be feeding and petting the kangaroo’s, they were all very tame and friendly, and ate food from our own hands, this had to be one of my definite highlights of the trip.

Feeding the Kangaroos at Cleland

On Friday morning we all headed down to the river in Adelaide city centre where we hired a bike for the day, we took a ride down to Henley beach which is beautiful and very scenic, all in all we ended up riding for 14 miles, we are still recovering from it now!

On Sunday night the Heroin(e) gang attended the Holden street theatres after show party, which was very eventful and very funny! Some of the theatre companies performed different mini sketches in the theatre, my favourite had to be the cast from Alvin Sputnik, as they wrote and performed two songs, one of which explained the meaning of all the different shows in the venue but in a witty and comical way.  We performed ‘that’s life’ and ‘one moment in time’ , Kate and Craig reversed roles to make it a very interesting watch to the audience, Craig then stepped in as a secondary Marilyn Monroe in one moment in time. It was great fun improvising and being able to make fun out of each other and our performances!

I really have had such an amazing time here in Australia and to be given a chance to perform at the Adelaide fringe festival has been a phenomenal experience,  there are so many things that have made my time here memorable, so here are a few more photographs that will sum up my trip, G’day Mate!

All of us and a Koala at Cleland Park

Us sampling the local wines at K1

Well what a time we’ve had here in Adelaide… Fantastic reviews, sell out shows and even autograph signing?!! We’ve had such a wonderful response and I really don’t want it to end. Every night we have audience members who stay behind to chat to us… I love it when they’re shocked at the fact that I’m not actually American and love it even more when they say they’re coming again!

We have 1 week left to go now and i’m intending on enjoying every second, i’m especially looking forward to swimming with dolphins (if the weather cheers up)! Yes you read it right, us Brits have managed to bring over some good old English weather with us and the last few days have been a little chilly with heavy clouds and rain. I’m hoping the sun will come out again before we leave… I’ve been very sun sensible, but don’t want to come home without a tan.

Me at Willunga Bay

Today has been a good day as we have received an excellent review from Fringe benefits, we’ve been waiting for it for a few days but it was worth it, even though we’ve been reviewed 26 times now I still get overwhelmed when we get a new one. To see the review follow the link below:

http://www.fringebenefits.com.au/?p=3330

So apart from the show, what else have we been up to? Well we have met some very nice people since being here, all who have supplied us with gifts and generosity, drinks, cars, nintendo wii’s, nights out and someone even made us a classic Sunday roast with homemade Yorkshire Puddings… But apart from that we’ve seen the sights and animals of Adelaide! One of my favourite days was the day at the zoo, it houses the only Pandas in Australia, but more importantly, it had meerkats, cute, funny, inquisitive little meerkats who I kept going back to, the monkeys were cool too… But the meerkats stole the show!!

My favourite at the zoo

The show’s that we’ve seen have been great but my personal favourite was ‘Zeitgeist’ which was a physical theatre performance in the Garden of Unearthly delights, we’ve also see ‘The adventures of Alvin Sputnik… Deep sea Explorer’ which was really beautiful and a comedy show called ‘Red Bastard’ the cast found it even more funny when the ‘red bastard’ scooped me up and carried me into a tent, pretending to do bad things to me!

(Notice Craig's stick of destiny?!)

On Sunday we walked for 10 miles and visited Waterfall gully which was beautiful, we started climbing Mount Lofty but with no water and 3km to go we felt we should start heading back, my legs agreed and soon after it had a downpour where we had to use our beach towels for different uses… We dined with Geoff Hardy of Hardy’s wines on the wine tasting day that Holden Street Theatres took us on, and Craig McArdle took an unexpected dip in the lake, but i’m sure he’ll talk more about that in his blog!

Waterfall Gully

Everyone at Holden Street Theatre has been fantastic and we cannot thank them enough… Hopefully we’ll see them again if we ever get the chance to bring our work across the world again.

Check back soon for blogs from the other cast members.

Hayley aka Heroin(e)

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