There's an amphitheatre in the north east section of Centennial Park, though you'd never know it was there if you stuck to the main walking and driving circuit because it's really tucked away.
During the summer the amphitheatre's taken over by the moonlight cinema, but before the cinema season begins there's usually some sort of open-air play by moonlight and at the moment they're playing A Midsomer Night's Dream complete with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It's quite a spectacle watching theatre by moonlight, but especially here in Centennial Park because the skies are teeming with enormous fruitbats after the sun goes down and the crickets make such a loud noise that the actors have to shout to make themselves heard. An aeroplane going overhead can really finish them off.
Anyway, we thought it would be fun to take Ella along; an evening out for all of us and no need for a babysitter.
The theatre company encourage the kids to dress up as fairies and every night they choose on fairy to dance on stage with the fairy queen in the play. Ella came dressed as a fairy-cum-princess because it hadn't registered that fairies have wings and not tiaras. Still, she had a lovely time and she'd hit the booze even before the sun went down.
God help us when she hits her teens.
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