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Biron Bothways as Hamlet, photographed by Creative Futures Photography DragSpeare: Drag Kings do Shakespeare was an entertaining evening of songs and soliloquies, mixing the Bard's poetry with popular music and sending up masculinity and ideas of capital-C culture. Presented as part of MELT Festival 2024, the overarching narrative was that of The Stallion Squad, a... Continue Reading →
Love Lies Bleeding 31 October - 23 November 2024 Ad Astra, Misterton Street, Fortitude Valley This play concerns an artist named Alex Macklin in the last years of his life, and the effect his condition has on his son, Sean, and his second and fourth wives, Toinette and Lia, respectively. After a major second stroke,... Continue Reading →
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 →
Clarise Ooi, photographed by Naz Mulla Embodi Theatre has premiered a new bilingual play at PIP Theatre, exploring the intersections of human emotion and artificial intelligence. Written and directed by Amy Chien-Yu Wang, with dramaturgy by Helen Strube, AI May is a bittersweet story of loss and love centred on the tensions between an immigrant... Continue Reading →
Imagery by Joel Devereux DragSpeare: Drag Kings do Shakespeare 1 - 9 November 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton Lucinda Shaw, director says “We’ve got an amazing cast of Kings who are not just delivering Shakespeare but doing it with style, sass, and a lot of heart. This is a show for anyone who loves drag, music,... Continue Reading →
Yoga Play 7 - 23 November 2024 La Boite Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove La Boite Theatre is limbering up to present an Australian-first season of Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play, a tale of downward dog and downward profits, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Parramatta. Brisbane stars Andrea Moor and Thomas Larkin will bring the... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Red Anchor Media CAKE 6 - 16 November 2024 Metro Arts, West Village, West End Join Marie Antoinette’s Royal Court and witness her cascade through parties, PR disasters and debauchery on the road to her inevitable beheading. Returning by popular request for a second serving, CAKE is a provocative comedy, inviting audiences to... Continue Reading →
A Night With The Villains 29 - 31 October 2024 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills A Night With The Villains returns for Halloween – bigger, badder, and boasting an all-new cast of local talent. This musical parody concert promises the ultimate Halloween experience with thrilling performances, dark humour, and spine-tingling villainy. Following its successful 2023... Continue Reading →
Eat Slay Zombie 6 - 9 November 2024 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Bank Playlab Theatre’s latest mainstage production, written by emerging playwright and Githabul, Migunberri-Yugumbeh woman Alinta McGrady, Eat Slay Zombie is a horror/comedy about colonisation, friendship and state occupation – except its zombies. The zombie apocalypse has finally happened and TikTok is the sole... Continue Reading →
Image credit: RJS Foto and Images by Anderson Midnight at the Cemetery 15 & 16 November 2024 Queensland Multicultural Centre, Kangaroo Point Don't miss out on this hilarious and spooky new production from Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc.®️ This spine-tingling production follows vlogger Nick as he investigates mysterious happenings at Hauntmoor Cemetery. When was the last... 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 →
Audience of Adrift, photographed by Morgan Roberts Counterpilot brought their oceanic participatory theatre experience Adrift back to Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival, submerging audiences in the storytelling through audio-based instruction and immersion. Before entering the theatre, we were each fitted with an individual wristband, headphones, and a vest. Voices whispered in the headphones,... Continue Reading →
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