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Image credit: Jax Oliver Break 21 – 24 June 2023 Metro Arts, West End Content warning: Adult themes, haze, strobe Presented by Metro Arts, this new work from The Farm and Cecilia (Ceci) Martin is an intensely personal exploration of how we define ourselves, what it is to fall apart and how we recover when... Continue Reading →
Content warnings: Discussion of suicide, self-harm, adult content, mild coarse language. Co-directed by Amy Ingram and Catarina Hebbard, with dramaturgy by Katherine Marquet, SHE was a confronting and affecting sharing of women's stories with a focus on mental health and mental illness. The work of three emerging writers – Bianca Saez, Karen Lee Roberts, and... Continue Reading →
SHE 3 - 13 May 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Content warning: There may be mentions of suicide, self-harm, adult content, mild coarse language. Recommended for audiences aged 15+. What’s going on with women’s mental health in the wake of the pandemic, the #metoo movement, floods, fires, wars, a divided political scene,... Continue Reading →
Hold Me Closer Tony Danza 24 - 28 January 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Recommended for audiences aged 18+ A commonly misheard song lyric contains a deeper proposition about how we form meaning and a provocation that perhaps our understanding of the world is intrinsically flawed. Presented by Metro Arts, Hold Me... Continue Reading →
David Megarrity performs as Tyrone in Bear with Me. Image supplied by David Megarrity. David Megarrity is an award-winning playwright, performer, and one half of ukulele and double bass duo Tyrone & Lesley. With collaborator Samuel Vincent, David will perform a 10th anniversary season of Tyrone and Lesley's show Bear With Me at Metro Arts... Continue Reading →
Bear with Me 7 - 10 December 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Brisbane ukulele duo Tyrone and Lesley present their playful music and theatre show Bear with Me, which is specifically made for children and their bears. This is the 10th anniversary season of the show, written by David Megarrity, which has... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Stewart Tyrell Content warnings: BUNKER contains coarse language, heightened psychological states, haze / smoke effects, loud music, and strobe lighting effects. Recommended for audiences aged 15+. What would you do if you received an alert that your world was ending? Who would you call? Where would you go, and what would you take... Continue Reading →
Adrift 9 - 19 November 2022 Metro Arts, West End Warnings: Active Participation, Adult Themes, Coarse Language, Periods of darkness, Sexual References, Haze / smoke effects, Loud Noises, Special Effects (Bubbles), Special Effects (Water), Strobe Lighting Effects, Use of Headphones. Become part of the story with this interactive theatre experience exploring human loneliness in aquatic... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Stewart Tyrell Bunker 19 - 22 October 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Exploring the physical threat of virtual alarm, Bunker is a bold new intermedial dance work led by internationally renowned dance choreographer, Lisa Wilson and techno-troublemaker, Nathan Sibthorpe. It’s 8:07am on January 13, 2018. Hawaii has just issued a... Continue Reading →
Leah Shelton, photographed by Joel Devereux Content warning: Batshit refers to mental illness and institutionalised medical treatment. It also contains occasional coarse language, sexual references, haze/smoke effects, loud sounds, bright lighting flashes and strobe lighting effects. Leah Shelton's third solo show, Batshit, made its world premiere at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival 2022,... Continue Reading →
Mistero Buffo 14 - 17 September 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Content warnings: Adult themes, coarse language, references to rape and sexual violence, haze / smoke effects, Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, Mistero Buffo is lead by a 21st century travelling storyteller: a Deliveroo driver at the centre of the... Continue Reading →
Image supplied Our Blood Runs in the Street 13 - 16 July 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End In 2019, the NSW Parliament reopened the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Gay and Transgender hate crimes between 1970 and 2010 to delve into the state's history of violence and persecution against LGBTQIA+ Australians. Shane Anthony's production... Continue Reading →
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