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Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra with Kate Miller-Heidke (centre) and Barbara Lowing (far right), photographed by Alex Jamieson Presented as part of Brisbane Festival, Camerata: Your Eternal Memories was a rollercoaster concert, bringing the chamber orchestra together with national treasures Kate Miller-Heidke and Barbara Lowing to share memories and music with warmth and playful humour.... Continue Reading →
Lauren Dillon, Lachlan Orton, and Georgina Swayer (front), photographed by Karina Abbasi Salad Days Collective presented the Australian premiere of T Adamson's absurd and endearing The Natural Horse at PIP Theatre during Brisbane Festival. Directed by Rebecca Day, with assistant direction by Jai Bofinger, and designed by Ada Ludkin, The Natural Horse is a wonderfully... Continue Reading →
Photographed by Morgan Roberts Stephen Page’s Baleen Moondjan was a work of impressive skill, vision, and Festival-scale spectacle, combining song, dance, and live music beneath huge whale bones stretching toward the stars. Staged on the Brisbane River with the audience seated on the edge of Queen’s Wharf, it was a unique and humbling experience to... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Tracey Leigh Images Joshua Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) was a delicious family history. Alongside his brother Dominic, Hinton told a story about lineage, cultural connection, and searching for a sense of belonging while he cooked his grandmother Mehmeh’s chicken curry live... Continue Reading →
Photographed by Daniel Boud A spectacular contemporary dance work about the cycle of life and the journey from birth to death, The Chronicles was presented as part of Brisbane Festival by the Melbourne-based Stephanie Lake Company, following its world premiere at Sydney Festival in January. Photographed by Laurent Liotardo From the first uncurling fingers of... Continue Reading →
Bad Nature for Brisbane Festival at The Powerhouse Theatre, photographed by David Kelly A jaw-dropping collaboration between Brisbane’s Australasian Dance Collective and The Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, and HIIIT, Bad Nature was a transportive new work about the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world. Photographed by David... Continue Reading →
Elena Perroni and Valerio Borgioni as Mimì and Rodolfo, photographed by Steph Do Rozario Opera Queensland presented a stunning, fully staged production of Puccini’s beloved opera La bohème in QPAC’s Lyric Theatre as part of Brisbane Festival 2025. La bohème was first performed at Turin’s Teatro Regio in 1896, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Bower and John Leary in The Platypus, photographed by Mark Gambino Francis Greenslade’s The Platypus is a metatheatrical two-hander that puts a genre-hopping spin on the kitchen sink drama. Jessica and Richard’s marriage is crumbling. Richard is healing from a vasectomy, and resents Jess for suggesting it. Jess feels unwanted, and seeks excitement in... Continue Reading →
On the Other Side, photographed by Jade Ellis Inspired by the three-part classical ballet work Jewels, which was created for the New York City Ballet by its co-founder George Balanchine in 1967, Gems is a trilogy of contemporary dance works by French dancer, choreographer, and founder of the L.A. Dance project Benjamin Millepied. In an... Continue Reading →
Camerata: Your Eternal Memories Saturday 13 September 2025, 7pm Concert Hall, QPAC Music is the soundtrack to our lives, featuring in life’s most significant moments. Music triggers memories – but what if we turn that around? What memories spark what sort of music? Camerata explores the relationship between memory and music in this nostalgic, moving,... Continue Reading →
Afterglow 5 - 27 September 2025 City Botanic Gardens, Alice St, Brisbane City Follow the flame and be captivated by dancing shadows, candlelit installations and fire sculptures in the world premiere of Afterglow. The fire trail is an all-ages experience in the City Botanic Gardens, presented by Sony Music Entertainment as part of Brisbane Festival... Continue Reading →
Audience of Adrift, photographed by Morgan Roberts Counterpilot brought their oceanic participatory theatre experience Adrift back to Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival, submerging audiences in the storytelling through audio-based instruction and immersion. Before entering the theatre, we were each fitted with an individual wristband, headphones, and a vest. Voices whispered in the headphones,... Continue Reading →
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