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Queensland Theatre Company artistic director Wesley Enoch has launched his 2012 Season and created a buzz through the performing arts community. In a bid to bring the big theatre event back to Brisbane, his season includes: Summer of the 17th Doll with Robyn Nevin and Helen Thomson; Bombshells by Joanna Murray-Smith with Christen O’Leary, making a welcome...
Guest actor on stage each night
Queensland Theatre Company presents Tim Crouch's multi-award winning hit An Oak Tree starring Hayden Spencer as a troubled hypnotist, who is joined onstage by a different unrehearsed actor each night. After sold out shows in London, New York and Edinburgh, An Oak Tree will give Brisbane audiences a show that challenges the very idea of theatre.
Director Todd MacDonald said that the studio season is for theatre that breaks the rules.
“An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch is the perfect show to launch (the studio season). No two performances of An Oak Tree will be the same, as Hayden faces the challenge of leading every show as The Hypnotist and teasing out a strong performance from each...
THE TICKET
Venue Gardens Theatre, George Street, Brisbane
Season March 17 to March 26
Times 7.30pm
Tickets Adults $18; Students and Conc $12; School Groups $10
Bookings www.gardenstheatre.qut.edu.au
Lend your ears and other senses to Caesar thriller
La Boite's 2010 production of Hamlet played to sold out audiences and garnered high praise from patrons and reviewers.
Now we shall see if patrons come to bury Caesar or praise him as La Boite presents Julius Caesar at the Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove from February 18 to March 20 (previews from February 12).
The company’s artistic director David Berthold directs this contemporary version of Shakespeare’s thriller about Roman general Caesar’s growing ambition and the life-and-death struggle for power in Rome. But when Caesar is killed the city falls into chaos, alliances are formed and faked, leaders are made and sacrifices and ghosts stalk. Nothing like assassination plots, conspiracy, bloody murders and choreographed fight scenes to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The production is performed in-the-round and features a new musical score by Steve Toulmin.
Well-known Queensland Theatre Company regular Hugh Parker makes his debut performance for La Boite playing Caesar, Caesar's Ghost, Pindarus, Strato, with Paul Bishop as Cassius, Ross Balbuziente as Casca...
Funny French farce for floods
Even before their own building is cleared for re-entry, the staff at Queensland Theatre Company are organising a free performance of the French farce Sacre Blue! for flood affected members of the community as well as taking donations for the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal during the show’s season from February 7 to March 12.
Director Morgan Dowsett said the company’s first production for the season will bring some much needed levity to audiences.
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Morrie’s final lesson in life
From the best-selling memoir by Mitch Albom comes a tender and uplifting comedy about a life-altering friendship.
Morrie Schwartz was an inspirational teacher and mentor, touching the lives of all his students but in particular Mitch Albom. Sixteen years have passed since graduation when Mitch learns that Morrie has Lou Gehrig's disease (Motor Neurone Disease). Returning to visit his old professor he is once again captivated by Morrie's wit, wisdom and the joy he takes in living. As one Tuesday becomes another and another, Mitch realises that Morrie is teaching him one final lesson - how to live.
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is the best-selling memoir that has sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has over 300,000 copies in print in Australia. When first published it remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for 250 consecutive weeks.
The production stars Glenn Hazeldine and Daniel Mitchell, directed by Mark Kilmurry with design by Brian Nickless and lighting by Peter Neufeld.
Grimm tales with some laughs along the way
Exactly how was Snow White’s evil step-mother defeated, what was the dark ending to Rumplestiltskin and more interestingly, what was Cinderella’s real name? All will be revealed when Queensland Theatre Company presents the classic Brothers Grimm fairytales in Grimm Tales, a collection of the original fables retold with the author’s original endings.
Carol Ann Duffy and Tim Supple’s new adaptation is a celebration of storytelling that will enchant theatergoers with a heady mix of the chaotic and the gripping, the frightening and the farcical, all brought vibrantly to life by an ensemble of medieval musicians and seven talented actors.
Audiences will recognise some of their favourite stories – there’s Rumplestiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, The Golden Goose (Lucas Stibbard pictured above), Snow White, Little Red Cap (better known as Little Red Riding Hood), Ashputell (Cinderella for purists!) as well as the lesser-known but equally fun The...