Epic struggles, tormented souls, forbidden love – stage productions have a tradition of dramatic subject matter.
Not in Geelong, though, where a new local show invites its audience to “watch traffic lights change – set to live music”.
Theatre company Drop of a Hat promises an “entertaining and informative” production, featuring footage of Geelong’s early traffic lights slowly changing over the course of one minute.
Adding to the drama, Geelong on Camera then presents the lights’ “major rival” of the era, Melbourne’s clock-like Marshallite Dial system.
But it’s not all traffic signals – the audience will also thrill to highlights from “Geelong West Council’s centenary celebrations in 1975”.
All this set to the commentary and music of Colin Mockett and Shirley Power.
Hopefully Double Take can find a spare seat at Drysdale’s Potato Shed on Tuesday morning.
Geelong’s motorcade of waterfront-cruising petrol heads might feel a little intimidated on home turf this weekend.
After all, how can a set of 18-inch mags and a faded No Fear sticker compete with a five-tonne monster truck on 1.7-metre tyres and pumping out 2000 horsepower of ground-shaking grunt?
Son’Uva Digger, pictured, can rampage from zero to 100km/h in less than three seconds – faster than a Ferrari or any souped up local Falcon.
The big vehicle with the appropriately islander-sounding name will command a site near the waterfront’s Carousel on Sunday as a promotion for the Monster Jam series.
Rev if you dare!
Barwon Freedom from Fluoride’s Keith Oakley received a nasty shock this week when the local constabulary knocked on his door.
A polite constable enquired whether Keith might have been responsible for a piece of “malicious damage”.
Taken aback, Keith asked what had happened.
Turns out an anti-fluoride protester had stuck a 1.5m sign reading ’MASS MEDICATION’ on land soon to be developed off Barwon Heads Rd.
Apparently the developer had googled anti-fluoride groups and come up with Keith’s group as a likely suspect.
“We don’t’ work like that,” was his firm answer to the officer.
“I felt like someone was trying to discredit us,” Keith told Double Take.
Or maybe it was an attempt at ’malicious damage’.
