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Aurelie Roque as Alison Bechdel and Adam Bartlett as Bruce Bechdel, photographed by Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson PIP Theatre has brought Fun Home, the musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s award winning graphic novel, to Brisbane for the first time. Directed by Sherryl-Lee Secomb, this moving production holds all the complex emotion and intellectual... Continue Reading →
Audrey Allen-Moore, Chris Kellett, and Ophelia Novak. Image credit: Images by Anderson. Disney Off Ice has made its world premiere at Studio 1, Yeerongpilly, presented by Observatory Theatre. This outrageous satire, the first script to be commissioned and developed through Observatory’s Telescope New Writing Program, is funny and absurd and asks interesting questions about the... Continue Reading →
Photographed by Nathaniel Knight Presented by The Reaction Theory and BIPOC Arts Australia, Nathan Joe’s Scenes From A Yellow Peril is a theatrical mosaic that pulses with passion, and a powerful commentary on the experience of trans-Tasman Asian identity. This is the second production in Queensland Theatre's inaugural DOOR 3 program, which provides opportunities for... Continue Reading →
(L to R) Daniel Kirkby, Hayden Parsons, Bailey Dunnage / Aubrey Haive, Connor Scoble, and Justin Ryan. Image supplied by The X Collective. Presented by The X Collective at PIP Theatre in Milton, Psycho Beach Party is camp, crass, and chaotic in all the best ways. Set over one summer in Malibu Beach, the play... Continue Reading →
Julian Curtis and Ashlee Lollback as Cole and Sky. Imagery supplied by Playlab Theatre. Review of preview performance, 31 July 2024 A contemporary Australian Gothic play by Maxine Mellor, Horizon sees young couple Sky and Cole hitting the highway. Sky is on vacation from her high-stress legal job; Cole is returning to his family home... Continue Reading →
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conducted by Daniel Hyde. Photographed by James Grant. The sublime voices of the Choir of King’s College came from Cambridge to QPAC as part of their national tour. In their most characteristic formation, the choir accompanied by an organ, the performance was conducted by Director of Music Daniel Hyde.... Continue Reading →
Riley Finn Anderson as Archibald Jordan and Rob Wainwright as Sandy. Photographed by Geoff Lawrence, Creative Futures Photography Presented in the Holy Trinity Church Hall in Fortitude Valley as part of Anywhere Festival, As Told By The Boys Who Fed Me Apples was a moving story of conflict and companionship, told in a novel way... Continue Reading →
Imagery supplied by Silent Sky Set Me On Fire, the premiere work of Silent Sky theatre collective, filled the Backdock Arts theatre with a nostalgia for young love, presented as part of Anywhere Festival 2024. Written by Samara Louise and directed by Cale Dennis, the artistic team behind Silent Sky, Set Me On Fire is... Continue Reading →
Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble bring an infectious joyful energy and their signature lyrical skill and musicality to Molière’s famed satire Tartuffe, directed and choreographed by Rebecca Murphy. First performed at the Palace of Versailles in 1664, Tartuffe offended the Archbishop of Paris and members of the French Catholic Church, who had the play officially censured by... Continue Reading →
Anna Dowsley and Sebastian Maclaine as Dido and Aeneas, with the Circa ensemble. Photographed by David Kelly. Opera Queensland and Circa join forces once again for a lustrous new interpretation of Henry Purcell's Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas, bursting with glamour and gravity-defying acrobatics. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was first performed in 1689, with the... Continue Reading →
Kate Hood and Philip Quast as Ani and Eddie, photographed by Morgan Roberts The phrase "cost of living" is inescapable at the moment, but that wasn't the case when Martyna Majok's play Cost of Living premiered in 2016. Co-directed by Priscilla Jackman and Dan Daw, who also stars in the work as John, Queensland Theatre... Continue Reading →
Karin Schaupp performs with Camerata, photographed by Alex Jamieson Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra collaborated with classical guitarist Karin Schaupp for Serenade, a strings concert that showcased contemporary Australian work, brought new perspectives to classics, and highlighted emerging Brisbane artists, all threaded through with serenades by Dvořák. Dvořák's Serenade for Strings was sprinkled throughout, beginning... Continue Reading →
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