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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Thomas Weatherall in Blue, photographed by Farley Ward / Shutterstorm Photography Following a successful premiere season at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre in 2023, Thomas Weatherall has brought his affecting one-person show to Brisbane audiences in La Boite's Roundhouse Theatre. Blue is the story of Mark, a young man who has had wave after wave of... Continue Reading →
Christopher Sommers as Marshall and Zoë Houghton as Helen, photographed by Stephen Henry Searing domestic drama The Norman Mailer Anecdote has made its world premiere at Queensland Theatre’s Diane Cilento Studio. The playwrighting debut of award-winning local screenwriter Anthony Mullins, The Norman Mailer Anecdote follows one high-achieving Brisbane family over a night of drinking and... Continue Reading →
The X Collective opened their 2024 season with a devastating duet of shattering psyches in Tonight with Donny Stixx and Dark Vanilla Jungle. Wayne McPhee directed these back-to-back Philip Ridley plays, each focused on the experiences and delusions of a traumatised young person and delivered as a deeply engaging monologue. Philip Ridley is an English... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson A collaboration between three local theatre companies, 35MM: A Musical Exhibition showcases an extraordinarily talented cast of Brisbane performers in Ryan Scott Oliver’s unconventional song cycle. Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson 35MM: A Musical Exhibition is a sung-through musical anthology of sixteen songs, each... Continue Reading →
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