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Three circus artists and two musicians walk into a bar…and they put on a great show! Exploring the ups and downs of a memorable (or not, depending on how much you drank) night of drinking and debauchery, Hold My Beer was part circus show, part musical comedy, and entirely entertaining. The performance featured a medley... Continue Reading →
In the third instalment of their award-winning collaboration, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Circa delighted Brisbane audiences with their skilful, joyful performance, bringing together contemporary circus, stunning vocals, and music from the English baroque. Leading period musicians from the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, played a pasticcio (I looked it... Continue Reading →
English Baroque 7:30pm 21 May, 2019 QPAC Concert Hall Part of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s 30th Anniversary celebrations, English Baroque with Circa is a thrilling collision of contemporary circus and music from the English Baroque. Having previously collaborated to devise acclaimed shows around French and Spanish music, Brandenburg Artistic Director Paul Dyer and Circa Artistic Director Yaron... Continue Reading →
A dynamic one-woman show about reclaiming ourselves from loss. Mary Anne Butler’s play Highway of Lost Hearts follows Mot on her road trip through the Australian outback, from Katherine to Dubbo, driving the 4,500kms with only her dog and her van. The audience is privy to her inner monologue on this journey as she seeks... Continue Reading →
An uncomfortably unfunny and unnecessarily foul endurance exercise for the audience. If you've ever seen the workings of an unsupervised grade eight drama class, you'll have an idea of what happened on The Telefon. It was an ambitious concept - a livestreamed performance experienced by the audience in the comfort of their own home, interacting... Continue Reading →
Taylor and Rosa take the audience on a hilarious journey through Brisbane’s cultural icons, from the majestic brown snake of the Brisbane River to the humble ibis, as they lament the loss of their friends to ‘cultural capitals’ like Melbourne and London. Another night, another goodbye party for a friend – Taylor and Rosa are... Continue Reading →
Oklahoma! 22 June - 6 July 2019 Iona Performing Arts Centre, Wynnum Tickets: $28 - $50 Following their spectacular sell-out seasons of Les Miserables and Chicago last year, Savoyards begin their 2019 season with Rogers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! A classic American musical, Oklahoma! has won multiple international awards, including a Pulitzer, Tony's and Academy award. It has also been made into... Continue Reading →
It's exhausting trying to keep a dream alive. The Big Crew present a post-art-school existential crisis that is painfully relatable for most of us with Arts degrees. Billing itself as the diary of an unaccomplished actor, Playing Pretend comprised a series of personal monologues and short scenes with a cast of four, exploring the trials... Continue Reading →
Republic of Song's shimmering, soaring fusion of circus and song will give you goosebumps. Supported by Vulcana, Skyward combined several art forms - song, circus, and photo/videography - into a meditation on mindfulness that is quite cathartic in its beauty. Time lapse photography by Michael Owen was interspersed with song and aerial circus choreography to... Continue Reading →
Tales of lost love, treasured memories, and poetic musings on the world we live in, set among cool greenery and the sound of running water. In Bloom is a series of monologues and spoken word poems about art, sex, and nature, created from anonymous submissions and performed by five women among the trailing green leaves and... Continue Reading →
Tally ho! Saturday night was our first time at Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s annual The Last Night of the Proms event. Both the stage and audience were adorned in Union Jack and Australian flags for an evening of Australian and British orchestral music, a tribute to the eight-week season of daily orchestral classical music concerts at... Continue Reading →
Barbara and the Camp Dogs is a fierce, fresh, and vital new musical which examines family tensions and loyalty, and questions of personal and national identity through raging rock and beautiful ballads. Following a powerful opening song, the audience meet Barbara and René – cousins raised together in Katherine by René’s mother Jill, and now... Continue Reading →
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