(The dining marquee at Wickedly Odd. Pic
by BlondeZulu Photography)
The second Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden, billed
as being bigger and better than the inaugural event last year, is currently on
at the Durban Botanic Gardens until December 10.
Have you ever
wondered what happens after the gates at Durban’s iconic Botanic Gardens are
locked? Do the trees, birds and animals settle in silence, or is it then, when
Durban sleeps, that these magnificent Gardens wake?
Welcome to Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden!
Once again the Wickedly Odd team offer a sensational
outdoor dining and entertainment experience in the heart of the city. The
production team is the same as last year: the Durban Botanic Gardens has teamed
up with Emma Lockhart and Bradley Porter of Specialist Event company Experience
This; award-winning actor/producer Ben Voss (Beauty Ramapelepele, Spud, Green and Black Mamba), and acclaimed set designer and video producer Clint
McLean to present a night of unparalleled experiential food and festivity set
in the heart of Durban’s greatest botanical wonderland.
They have created
new ideas, different installations, a fabulous new menu and some glorious
surprises!
On arrival, guests
will be welcomed with a glass of champagne by the quirky botanical Maître D and
taken on a whimsical amble (or golf-cart drive for those who need it!) up the
garden path, past scintillating cycads, quirky garden characters, through the
sunken summer garden, ending up beneath the gnarled branches of South Africa’s
oldest Litchi tree for a 1930’s “garden party” welcome drink and snack.
After a crisp
litchi cocktail they will proceed to a glorious Bedouin tent for dinner, and
elegantly and tastefully spread out under the boughs of the garden’s most
glorious Wild Fig. Here they will be treated to the finest plated menu Durban
has to offer. Throughout dinner, the trees, birds and hidden creatures of the
gardens will permeate proceedings, morphing the night into a whimsical, bewitching
and fantastical blend of luscious food, crisp champagne, magical puppetry and
curious delight.
After dinner,
guests amble (umbrellas and gumboots provided for heavy weather) out to a bar
of their choice. A beer in a Garden shed? A cocktail concocted by punk-beetled
barmen? Single malt whiskeys served by feathered barmaids at an exclusive
Whisky bar? Or gin and tonic with your mates? There is a beverage and bar for
any thirst.
Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden is not a show, a dinner, or a party. It’s
an unusual Christmas dining and entertainment experience. You are invited to
slip behind the moss curtain of fantasy and immerse yourself in the captivating
world of botanical peculiarity, four metre flamingos, marvellous praying
mantises, aerial acrobats, beetled barmen, feathered barmaids and cantankerous
crows.
This is an
experience with a difference. It’s excessive, it’s outrageous, and it’s
WICKEDLY ODD
The show starts at
18h00 and runs until about midnight. Booking through 031 313 3330 or email: emma@experiencethis.co.za Facebook: Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden
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