Jane Binstead as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, photographed by Christopher Sharman Content note: Letters to Lindy contains coarse language and mature themes, including references to death and violence. In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain died when she was taken from the family tent by a dingo while camping at Uluru; her disappearance, and the phrase “a dingo stole... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Lamb (Red Stitch and Critical Stages Touring)
Image supplied Lamb 30 & 31 March 2021 QUT Gardens Theatre, Brisbane City Directed by Green Room Award winner Julian Meyrick, Jane Bodie’s Lamb is a play charting two generations of a farming family, with original songs by Mark Seymour. Spanning 40 years of life on an Australian sheep farm, Bodie’s bittersweet story explores the... Continue Reading →
Winner of Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2020-21 Announced
From over 220 entries for the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2020–21 and three finalists announced earlier this year, Brisbane writer Steve Pirie has been announced the winner with Return to the Dirt, a powerful and gently humorous meditation on what it means to die in the 21st century and what a final act of love... Continue Reading →
Review: Love Triangle: An evening of one-act plays (Minola Theatre and Corporation Theatre)
Minola Theatre and Corporation Theatre presented Love Triangle: An evening of one-act plays for one performance only at the Ron Hurley Theatre on January 25, showcasing an ensemble of local talent across three pieces of theatre written in 1913, 2008, and 2019. Helmed by the directors of the two theatre companies, Love Triangle explored themes... Continue Reading →
Review: X-Stacy (Mira Ball Productions & Trent Sellars as Salad Bowl Collective)
Salad Bowl Collective presented an emotionally charged production of X-Stacy at the Ron Hurley Theatre, produced by Mira Ball Productions and Trent Sellars and directed by Elodie Boal - an Australian coming-of-age classic about family, grief, dance club culture, and looking out for your mates that remains relevant two decades after it was first performed.... Continue Reading →
Review: The Club (JPR Productions)
JPR Productions present David Williamson's iconic play The Club at Metro Arts, directed by Jesse Richardson - fast paced, full of energy, and laugh out loud funny. The expensive purchase of a new recruit with great potential but little motivation has created a rift between the club's disgruntled coach and its President. As their grievances... Continue Reading →
Review: Spencer (Lab Kelpie)
Lab Kelpie brought Katy Warner’s hilarious and heart-warming family drama, directed by Sharon Davis, to the QUT Gardens Theatre on their national tour, introducing Brisbane audiences to the dysfunctional Prior family – footy-mad, fiercely loyal, and laugh-out-loud funny. The Prior kids have all come home – Ben, the enthusiastic Auskick coach with a failed marriage... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Spencer (Lab Kelpie & QUT Gardens Theatre)
Spencer 23-24 August QUT Gardens Theatre Tickets: Adults $49 | Concession $44 | Pensioner & Full-time student $37 How much does family define who we are? And do we ever really grow up? Katy Warner's Spencer is a rapid-fire comedy-drama exploring the fate of one gloriously dysfunctional Australian family across a weekend of love, laughs and... Continue Reading →
What’s On: City of Gold
City of Gold June 29 – July 20, 2019 Bille Brown Theatre A Griffin Theatre Company co-production All Breythe ever wanted was to be an actor, but this isn’t how he imagined his first big television gig – as a young Aboriginal man, being the face of a disastrous misfire of an advertisement that will... Continue Reading →
Review: Flood (Brie Jurss & Emma Lamberton)
Put on some bug repellent, gather around the campfire, and join in this grippingly uncomfortable one-act play by Chris Isaacs. Six friends from Perth are reunited for the ultimate camping trip – two weeks in the bush, in the middle of nowhere, next to a pristine lake. But after less than twenty-four hours things take... Continue Reading →
Review: Highway of Lost Hearts (Minola Theatre)
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 →