Concrete Playground

Imagine that you have a box filled with many toys, some new, some old, and each one has the ability to come to life when shook up by a hyperactive child. Next, imagine that this chest of thrills has fallen into the thespian clutches of the Actors College of Theatre and Television, busted open and unleashed upon the unsuspecting minds of you and your loved ones.

This is an artist's rendering of what you can expect from the Imagine Festival - two nights and days worth of art and antics at the Cleveland St Theatre. Storytellers unleash primal screams and peyote dreams while burlesque dancers coil around the stage until the A.M., when poets and yogis apparate for breakfast and energising classes.

Do not be fooled by second-rate American festivals from the past - Imagine festival is the best way to savour the right lobes of your fellow Sydneysiders this weekend.