Royal Croquet Club @ South Bank

Royal Croquet Club @ South Bank

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Posted 2015-11-02 by Geraldine Masseyfollow

Fri 06 Nov 2015 - Sun 22 Nov 2015

Fresh from its highly successful outings over the last two years as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival and last summer as a cool and lively antidote to the Melbourne heat, the Royal Croquet Club is heading north this spring. It will be making its Queensland debut at South Bank's Cultural Forecourt from 6 to 22 November as the opening event of its summer tour around the country.


Those of you who only know croquet as the game played by the fractious Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (with flamingos and a hedgehog rather than the customary mallet and ball), are probably wondering what all the fuss is about. After all, the words cool and croquet don't seem to naturally belong together in a sentence. Well, you'd be dead wrong because the Royal Croquet Club is very cool indeed. This event will definitely be a case of 'be there or be square'.

For seventeen days and nights South Bank will reverberate with the sounds of summer's fanciest garden party. And it's not all about croquet. You'll also find art installations, food, bars, roving street performers and musical entertainment, along with the four croquet pitches where you can learn to deftly wield a mallet.


The food offerings run the whole gamut from delicious La Marcelleria gelato and Miss Kay's burgers to crocodile hotdogs from Adelaide's Street ADL and marvellous Mexican street fare from Sin Vida . Other food vendors signed up for the event include The Defiant Duck , Bao Down Now , Mighty Mighty and The Doughnut Bar .

The full entertainment line-up of local, interstate and international artists is yet to be announced but the opening night (Friday 6 November) will feature Kilter and Porsches live on stage from 5pm.


Entry is just $5 on Friday and Saturday nights and to make it really easy for you there is no need to book. You can just purchase your tickets at the venue. But if you're in need of a mid-week pick-me-up it won't cost you a cent to enter; From Sundays to Thursdays admission is FREE. Operating hours are from 4pm to midnight Monday to Friday and from 12 noon to midnight Saturday and Sunday.


For more information about this exciting first for Brisbane or to keep up with the latest news check out the website here , or the Royal Croquet Club's Facebook page here . Specific details about the event are on the Facebook event page here .

Shake off the frustrations and weariness of the working week. Come along for the fabulous food and entertainment and stay for the croquet. Who doesn't love hitting something with a mallet? Just watch the Queen of Hearts below.



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