To celebrate Opera Australia's premiere of Bliss coming to the Edinburgh International Festival, a number of inflatable kangaroos are taking up home in unusual locations across the city from Monday 30 August. All you have to do is find them in order to win two free tickets.
They've performed it at Home and now they're performing it Away - following its acclaimed world premiere in Sydney earlier this year, Opera Australia's Bliss is being performed at the Edinburgh International Festival on September 2 and 4. Set in the world of advertising in the 1980s the opera, which is based on a work by award winning novelist Peter Carey, Bliss charts the story of Harry Joy, a successful advertising executive who questions his life after a near-death experience. With an unfaithful wife, children spiralling out of control and questionable professional ethics, Harry finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places. And it isn't on Ramsey Street.
Featuring an amazing set by Tony award winning Brian Thomson (whose work can be seen in current London West End productions Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Holding The Man), a score by Brett Dean and libretto by Amanda Holden, Bliss is a 1980s ‘soap' opera where wigs and corsets make way for shoulder pads and mullets.
You can get some sneaky clues of the kangaroos location by keeping an eye on our Twitter and Facebook pages. Once you find the kangaroo hop it up to Hub Tickets, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE to claim your prize.
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