Ticket Options & Offers for Dark Noon - Sydney Festival 2025
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Sydney - Sydney Town Hall Tickets From $89*
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9 - 23 January 2025
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About Dark Noon - Sydney Festival 2025
Dark Noon flips the script on the Wild West, envisioning American history as equal parts absurd, horrifying and deeply profound.
On a stage covered in the red dirt of the prairie, a pioneer town springs up in real time as an extraordinary cast of South African actors reimagines the story of the American frontier through an outsider’s lens. Directed by Danish visionary Tue Biering and South African co-director and choreographer Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Dark Noon challenges everything you thought you knew about the Wild West.
Through gunslinging cowboys, Native Americans, missionaries, enslaved Africans, Chinese workers and European settlers, it tears down Hollywood tropes with slapstick humour, breathtaking stagecraft and biting satire.
Fresh from five-star runs at New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Factory International, Dark Noon transforms Sydney Town Hall for a limited season, pulling audiences into a raw, immersive ride through history that confronts power, race and displacement.
A fearless and unmissable festival experience.
★★★★★ “Fresh, arresting and not a little troubling” – The Guardian
★★★★★ “Extraordinary outsider vision of American history” – The Guardian
★★★★★ “A 300-year history of the American west in 100 uproarious minutes.” – The Guardian
★★★★★ “A truly, staggering relentless theatre experience.”– British Theatre Guide
★★★★★ Jaw-droppingly audacious, breathtakingly fearless” – Arts Desk
★★★★ “Incredibly exciting… One of the most ambitious and fearless pieces of theatre to be presented at the fringe in the past decade.” – The Stage
★★★★ Dark Noon is outrageously entertaining, even if you cringe while you’re laughing; the stagecraft is spectacular and the slapstick is delightfully silly. – Time Out
