Sidetrack Performance Group

Addison Road Centre 142 Addison Rd

Marrickville

Phone 02 9560 1255 Fax 02 9560 9167

Sidetrack Performance Group works with theatre artists from diverse cultural and performance backgrounds exploring and developing new ways of making and presenting theatre.

Sidetrack's aim is to be at the forefront of contemporary Australian theatre and performance culture by challenging the boundaries of Australian theatre practices in relation to a culturally diverse society.

Since its inception Sidetrack has attempted to create theatre with a culturally diverse audience in mind. The company was in fact the first professional company in Australia to pursue and maintain an oeuvre, which could give a theatrical voice and a space to the accents, stories and cultural styles within Australia's cultural diverse society.

Sidetrack's base in Marrickville (in Sydney's inner western suburbs), is one of Australia's most culturally diverse locations. In its 22 years of existence it is Marrickville's diversity which has been the sustaining inspiration for the company's work.

Sidetrack is housed within the Addison Road Centre for Arts, Culture, Community + Environment (ARC) is located in the inner western Sydney suburb of Marrickville. Marrickville is nine kilometres from the Sydney central business district and is bordered by Cooks River in the south, King Street and Alexandra Canal to the east, Parramatta Road to the north and Canterbury Road to the west. Marrickville has a culturally diverse population with approximately 140 nationalities represented and is still a predominantly working class suburb, though economic and social change is slowly occurring throughout the inner west.

Further details can be obtained by phoning the theatre on 02 9560 1255.