Anthea Jewels

Anthea's Diary 2003

Melbourne�s own Anthea Sidiropoulos, singer/songwriter of various languages, (English/Greek/Turkish) diverse musical genres and personas (Janis Joplin cover band) finally emerges in her own right to debut at this year's Melbourne Fringe with a musical account and light hearted look at memoirs written in times of adversity.

This opinionated singer/songwriter has taken her life and the many things she has survived and created a musical performance featuring moments, memories and real life tragedies as recorded in her diary.

Surviving Hodgkin�s disease (cancer of the lymph glands), broken marriages, severe reactions to HRT testosterone reactions to counteract her chemotherapy, spiritual retreats, white tail spider bites and Bellydance workshops, Anthea can�t help but have an honest yet humoristic view of looking at her life through a glass with water in it. Is the glass half-empty? Or is the glass half-full? Anthea has her own ideas but the audience is left to decide for themselves.

A strong believer of �you can do what you want, be who you are, only drop the expectation�� Anthea allows audiences to experience her life through her music in what is a frank and honest account of survival and tragedy. It is often said that it takes 7 years for the body to fully expel traces of chemotherapy and in this, Anthea�s seventh year since her treatment, she is embracing her memories of that painful time in her life and expelling them, in front of a live audience. Anthea performs her songs solo and acoustic, presenting her life as a musical journey of experiences.

Anthea�s Diary appears as a Fringe Festival appetiser, �food for thought� if you will, at the early timeslot of 6.45pm Melbourne to San Francisco, Cairns to Melbourne and then into The Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital for a Bone marrow transplant� the Diary continues� The cocoon has evolved�. The butterfly emerges�