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 →
What’s On: Functional Bottom (Jessi Ryan)
Functional Bottom 7 - 9 November 2024 Brisbane Powerhouse Riverside Terrace, New Farm Internationally renowned, award winning non-binary artist, journalist and storyteller, Jessi Ryan returns to MELT festival with their breakout Melbourne International Comedy Festival hit show Functional Bottom. A fusion of storytelling, contemporary performance art, filth, provocation and tears probably, Functional Bottom is a... Continue Reading →
Review: Meet Your Maker (Blak Social, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse)
Alethea Beetson in Meet Your Maker, photographed by Jade Ellis Alethea Beetson’s theatrical debut Meet Your Maker was a colourful fantasy full of original pop songs, set in an alternate timeline where land was returned to First Nations communities in the 80s. Created and performed by Beetson, Meet Your Maker took the audience on a... Continue Reading →
Review: Volcano (Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects, Brisbane Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Channel Nine)
Luke Murphy and Will Thompson perform Volcano, photographed by Emilija Jefremova Luke Murphy has brought his colossal, episodic dance theatre work Volcano to the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Brisbane Festival 2024, and it is everything you could want from a festival work – big on ambition and impact, flawlessly delivered, and resisting convention and... Continue Reading →
Review: Horizon (Playlab Theatre)
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 →
Review: Big Yikes! (Playlab Theatre)
Juliette Milne as Lorrie/Loxie, photographed by Stephen Henry Emerging playwright Madeleine Border's play Big Yikes! made its world premiere at the Brisbane Powerhouse, presented by Playlab Theatre and directed by Playlab Artistic Director Ian Lawson. A play about coming of age and finding your feet in adulthood, Big Yikes! included some excellent comedy and commentary... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Big Yikes! (Playlab Theatre)
Image credit: Morgan Roberts Big Yikes! 13 - 23 March 2024 Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Big Dreams. Bigger Doubts. Big Yikes! Playlab Theatre’s latest mainstage production, Big Yikes!, premieres this March at the BrisbanePowerhouse. Written by emerging Meanjin playwright Madeleine Border, this is a coming-of-age story that explores the uncertainty of school leaving... Continue Reading →
Review: Halcyon (Australasian Dance Collective)
Lily Potger, photographed by David Kelly Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) has premiered Halcyon, a new contemporary dance work by Jack Lister, at the Brisbane Powerhouse for a limited season. Seeking to immerse the audience in a stylistic realm of intrigue and glamour, Halcyon drew inspiration from crime noir and the golden age of Hollywood and... Continue Reading →
Review: The Making of Pinocchio (Brisbane Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse & Screen Queensland)
Rosana Cade & Ivor MacAskill perform The Making of Pinocchio, photographed by Yousef Iskandar, Hamburg 2022 Content warnings: adult themes, full frontal nudity, coarse language, sexual references, depictions of sex acts, discussions of lived trans experiences. The Making of Pinocchio had its world premiere as part of the 2022 London International Festival of Theatre but... Continue Reading →
Review: Stunt Double (The Farm, Screen Queensland, Brisbane Powerhouse & Brisbane Festival)
Content warnings: coarse language, partial nudity, violence, adult themes and sexual references, the use of haze and strobe effects. The Farm flips the script on what a dance theatre work can be with their new production. Stunt Double is packed with action, humour, and unexpected turns as it celebrates the unsung heroes of the Australian... Continue Reading →
Review, Slow Boat (Brisbane Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse & Playlab Theatre)
Silvan Rus, Julian Wong, Ming Yang Lim, Jonathan Chan, and Egan Sun-Bin, photographed by Stephen Henry. Content note: Slow Boat includes low level coarse language, depictions of suicide, depictions of war, racial slurs, references to violence, haze/smoke effects, and loud sounds. Anna Yen’s Slow Boat has made its world premiere at the Brisbane Powerhouse, directed... Continue Reading →
Review: THREE 2.0 (Australasian Dance Collective)
Australasian Dance Collective artists perform Cass Mortimer Eipper’s Limbic. Photographed by David Kelly. After the season was postponed earlier in the year due to flood damage at QPAC, Australasian Dance Collective opened their second iteration of THREE at the Brisbane Powerhouse, a triple bill of new works from three different choreographers, all created in collaboration... Continue Reading →