In my time working at Arts Centre Melbourne I spent the good
part of 5 years working on presenting the Famous Spiegeltent on the Arts Centre
forecourt. The Famous Spiegeltent is a wonderful travelling Belgian mirror tent
with an impressive pedigree – most famously hosting a performance by Marlene
Dietrich in the 1930’s.
To visitors, the Spiegeltent mysteriously appears for up to
three months at a time in Melbourne, and then disappears again to another
location on her touring circuit. The Spiegeltent arriving is an exciting time,
but behind the scenes getting it to Melbourne each year is a highly complex
project.
