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Cast of The X Collective's Cleansed Content note: Please be advised this production contains, and this review refers to, simulations of drug use, extreme sexual & physical violence, incest, and suicide. The X Collective close their 2024 season with Sarah Kane's confronting and brutal play Cleansed. Directed by Wayne McPhee, with assistant direction and design by... Continue Reading →
Cleansed 17 October - 2 November 2024 Holy Trinity Church Hall, Fortitude Valley Content note: Please be advised this production contains simulations of sexual intimacy, extreme sexual & physical violence, drug consumption and suicide themes. In a world stripped bare of mercy and convention, Cleansed transports audiences to a place where love, pain, and redemption... Continue Reading →
Psycho Beach Party 8 - 24 August 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton Surf’s up, and murder’s afoot, as Psycho Beach Party mashes up ’50s psychodramas, ’60s surfer films and ’80s slasher horror flicks into a truly madcap comedy. Think Gidget meet’s Mommie Dearest! It’s 1962 and teenage tomboy Chicklet Forrest desperately wants to be a part... Continue Reading →
Equus 7 - 15 June 2024 Holy Trinity Church Hall The X Collective presents Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning masterpiece, following the journey of psychiatrist Martin Dysart as he unravels the enigmatic story of Alan Strang, a young man who commits a shocking and violent act against six horses. As Dysart delves deeper into Alan's troubled... 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 →
Dark Vanilla Jungle & Tonight with Donny Stixx 11 - 26 April 2024 Holy Trinity Church Hall, 141 Brookes St, Fortitude Valley The X Collective presents a double bill of Philip Ridley plays to open 2024 - bold, evocative, and unapologetically honest, these plays invite you to confront the depths of the human experience in... Continue Reading →
Content warning: partial nudity, sexual references, loud noises, strobing light effects, prop weapons. The X Collective presents an electric and engrossing production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur, directed by Wayne McPhee and starring AJ and Nick Sinclair. Power, fantasy, and desire collide in this exploration of interpersonal dynamics, especially as they relate to love, sex,... Continue Reading →
Content warning: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, contains coarse language and references to violence and suicide. In October, The X Collective presented the intriguing avant-garde theatrical experiment White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at Fate Container Studios in West End. Written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, its key point of interest is not in the script, but in... Continue Reading →
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit 7 - 30 October 2022 Fate Container Studios, 49 Vulture Street, West End For some performers it’s their worst nightmare; for others it is a moment of catharsis. No rehearsals, no director, a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, and a different actor each performance. White Rabbit, Red Rabbit... Continue Reading →
Aidan O’Donnell and Nathan Kennedy as Barry and Steven in Leaves of Glass, photographed by Naz Mulla Content note: This production contains coarse language, depictions of domestic violence, and spoken references to suicide and child abuse. Following postponements earlier in the year due to COVID-19, The X Collective has now opened their riveting production of... Continue Reading →
Leaves of Glass 8 - 30 April 2022 Brisbane Latvian Hall, 24 Church Ave, Woolloongabba On the surface, Steven has everything. A beautiful wife, a successful business, a brand new home. But beneath the glittering veneer lies a monstrous secret... Philip Ridley's Leaves of Glass is a play about two brothers and the hold that... Continue Reading →
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