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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 →
Kevin Spink and Sophia Emberson-Bain (front) and Anna McGahan (back), photographed by Stephen Henry La Boite have opened their 2024 season with the return of Patrick Marber's engrossing and entangled drama Closer, directed by La Boite’s Artistic Director Courtney Stewart. Closer weaves a twisted web of deception and desire that ensnares four Londoners over the... Continue Reading →
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 →
Rijen Laine as Jake and Tegan Braithwaite as Ishtar. Imagery supplied by PIP Theatre. Presented at PIP Theatre, the provocatively-titled Banging Denmark is an anti-rom-com about toxic online communities, the blurry line between attraction and revulsion, and the timeless pursuit of human connection. Written by Australian social commentator Van Badham, the play made its world... Continue Reading →
Frankenstein 16 March - 20 April Brisbane Arts Theatre, Petrie Terrace Board the Prometheus, an exploration vessel trapped in the shifting ice of the Northern Pole with an unexpected shipmate brought aboard… a man in pursuit of his own demons and a creature of his own creation. This amateur production follows the story, based on... Continue Reading →
Banging Denmark 8 - 23 March 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton Jake Newhouse is a pickup artist who sells seduction techniques to the lovelorn men of the internet. Ish Madigan is a feminist academic whose life has been destroyed by male internet trolls. They are natural enemies…until Jake grows desperate for a favour. He’s developed a... Continue Reading →
Tainika Kane-Potaka (left, back) as #13, Emily Marszalek (centre back) as #46, Madeline Armit (right, back) as #11, and Sharnee Tones (front) as #25. Image credit: Justin Harrison Ad Astra have kicked off 2024 with Sarah DeLappe’s drama The Wolves, transforming their black box theatre into an indoor soccer pitch where all the guts and... Continue Reading →
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 →
The Wolves 15 February - 9 March 2024 Ad Astra, 57 Misterton Street, Fortitude Valley A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigate big questions and wage tiny battles with all the vigour of a pack of adolescent warriors. Written by Sarah DeLappe and directed for... Continue Reading →
Bianca Butler Reynolds and Ben Snaith as Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins, photographed by Kris Anderson (Images by Anderson) Minola Theatre presents George Bernard Shaw’s classic tale of class and culture, Pygmalion, as their first production of 2024, directed by Kat Dekker. First performed in 1913, the play takes its title from the Greek... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson Pygmalion 2-3 & 9-10 February 2024 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills Hub, 28 Tallowwood Street, Seven Hills Minola Theatre proudly presents Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s classic comedy of class, language and gender politics. When egocentric phonetics professor Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle, he isn’t expecting... Continue Reading →
Art of Courage 3 - 17 February 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton Art of Courage is a not-for-profit immersive theatre performance that unveils a tale of hope, resilience, and the spirit of the Ukrainian people, promising a captivating journey through the soul of Ukraine and a profound exploration of history, tradition, and the enduring power of... Continue Reading →
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