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Workin' 9 to 5...and then heading to the Brisbane opening of @9to5au last Tuesday night! My full review is on the blog now (direct link in my stories). Inspired by the hit 1980 film, 9 to 5 The Musical is a fast-paced, high-energy, and surprisingly risqué night out, with outstanding cast performances and a sharp ensemble ✨ Thank you for inviting us @cw_publicity 💕

What a week! Three consecutive opening nights, and my brain is still swirling with songs and swordplay and adjectives to try and adequately describe it all. My review of The Last Five Years is online now for @limelightartsau (there's a direct link in my stories) and reviews of 9to5 and Bernhardt/Hamlet are close behind. Happy Sunday 🥂☕

I am not ready to return to a five-day working week after a month of long weekends 💐

Sweet little street (park?) library in Herston 💚

A belated snap from the QPAC Concert Hall, two Saturday afternoons ago at Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Mozart's Clarinet - an interesting and varied concert program including a short orchestral work from an Australian composer, the titular clarinet concerto starring QSO Section Principal Irit Silver, and Martinů's rollercoaster first symphony. It was fascinating to have a clear view of the clarinet, when the fingerwork is generally obscured by other sections of the orchestra, and Silver was magnificent - every note was clear, bright, and distinct. Full review is on the blog now 💜🎶

Aperol spritzes and animated discussion after the world premiere of @operaqueensland 's The Sopranos on Tuesday night 🧡💛 As someone who hasn't seen much opera, I found The Sopranos to be an interesting introduction to a wide range of classic and newer operas, as well as a thought-provoking reframing of women's stories within the operatic canon. If you're worried about not understanding the words/singing (I was), there are also projected subtitles and a voiceover in English to give you more context and information around each piece. The costumes and dramatic staging were delicious, and the voices!! A big cast of sopranos that gave me goosebumps and moved me to tears. My full review is on the way, but tomorrow is the final performance so get in quick if you're keen to see it!

Spent my Sunday morning going through the @affrenchfilmfestival 2022 program and circling the French films I want to try and see over the next month 🇫🇷 On Tuesday night I attended the media launch of the 33rd Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, including a screening of the brilliantly tense and intimate World War II drama, Farewell Mr Haffmann (Adieu Monsieur Haffmann) which is one of the 42 films showing as part of the 2022 festival. The festival runs from 16 March to 13 April and is the world’s largest French film festival outside of France, with a wide variety of films for all ages and interests. Thank you for having me at the launch @alliancefrancaisebrisbane 🥂

Good, uncomfortable questions - this play is full of them. On Saturday night we attended the opening of @7methods at @laboitetheatre ✨ ☔ Torrential rain couldn't stop the joy and rage and passion that exploded off the Roundhouse stage for La Boite's raucous, rapid-fire season opener, exploring the commodification of Black women (and much more) in the online realm of tweets, trolls, and tension.

**Giveaway closed** In case you missed it (because Insta only showed it to 6% of my followers 🙃) I'm giving away 4 double passes to @qsorchestra's QSO Favourites concert next weekend! It's a concert of favourites, as requested by fans and musicians, from Beethoven to Star Wars, as well as a world premiere from one of the orchestra's own.

🎶🎶** GIVEAWAY CLOSED**🎶🎶

2021 in programs 📚✨ this year I saw 40 shows across theatre, dance, comedy, musicals, song, orchestra, cabaret, and opera, from the theatres at QPAC to the varied venues of Anywhere Festival. I'm so grateful to all of the artists, onstage and backstage and everywhere in between, who have poured themselves into these brilliant creative works amidst all the complex difficulties the industry has faced in these past two years. It's been a joyful year of memorable, often challenging, art, and I'm reflecting on this as we look to the new year.

Cheers to the festive season 🥂💐🎄 As borders open up, I hope that you are safe, and well, and able to reunite with the people you love. Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it, and if not then I wish you a pleasant and restorative break if you're able to take one.

Colours of the season ❤💚

An appreciation post for the Milton 1991 Everyday Dress from Phoebe Paradise, with which I am unequivocally in love 💖 I am WILD about the neon design (the houses! the giant snake! the lil froggy! 🐸) and the colours are so vibrant. I wasn't sure that velvet would wear well in the QLD summer but it's some kind of magic light velvet that is great for both sweating and swishing around in. It dresses up (I wore it to QPAC) and down. Sizes go from S to XXL (I wear a M, am usually somewhere between a 10-14 because women's clothing lol). It's also important to me that the dress is not only designed in Brisbane, but the fabric is printed here and the dresses are handmade here! If you've gone looking, you know that's pretty rare. Honestly, I will recommend anything by @phoebe.paradise to everyone forever, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This magic post-storm sunset yesterday (photos never do it justice, do they?), then a thunder-and-lightning show tonight 🌇⚡

It was an appropriately dark and stormy night on Tuesday when we saw Queensland Ballet’s Dracula. Richly costumed, visually compelling, and with the score performed live by Camerata, this was a story of love and horror that was heavier on the love. My other quibbles were the same I always have with QB - timing, and technique - but overall the quality of the dancing was high, the extensive sets had wonderful depth and detail, and the lighting was superb. Although I would have liked some proper, grotesque, gothic horror, Krzysztof Pastor's choreography was largely modern (this work only premiered in 2018) and showcased the ballerinos in a way that many story ballets don’t - the pas de deux between Dracula and Jonathan was a highlight for me 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️

It's not Brisbane, but it is Queensland Theatre! We saw Othello at Bulmba-ja in Cairns on Saturday night, and it was exceptional - Shakespeare's tragedy reimagined by Jimi Bani and Jason Klarwein in the Torres Strait during World War II. Masterfully performed, this production exemplified what Shakespeare can be on a modern stage - enduring stories of human emotion and fallibility woven into different historical, narrative, and geographic locations with commitment, context, and care 👏👏

It's the twelfth and final day of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas - gifting an experience! From workshops and at-home making to tickets, season passes, and subscriptions, these are gifts that keep on giving.

Day 11 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is a big one - local drinks! There’s always plenty of champagne and six packs in our family fridge for Christmas (and usually heaps left over for New Year’s celebrations) - find a list of local tipples on the blog now. Cheers! 🥂🍻

Holidays are so often centred around food, and it’s a great gifting choice if the people you love have enough ‘stuff’ in their lives – from locally made sweet treats to fresh produce, check out the tagged local businesses for your food-loving loved ones!

Backstreet Brisbane was founded and continues on the unceded land and waterways of the Jagera and Turrbal people.

I acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the land where I live and work, to their Elders past, present, and emerging, and to all First Nations peoples.

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