Actors and Acting

Review: Gaijin at QUT Gardens Theatre

by Kate Foy 23 June 2011

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Gaijin, currently playing in a very short (3 day) season is the brainchild and production of Director/Designer Ben Knapton and Rock and Roll Musical/Stand-Up Performer/Sound Designer Dave Eastgate.
The play is essentially a series of snapshot episodes played out by various characters involved in the story of a young Australian gaijin (foreigner), Chris Thompson, [...]

Review: Water Falling Down – Queensland Theatre Company

by Kate Foy 8 April 2011

The time has come to declare the ubiquitous ’75-110 minute full-length play-without-an-interval’ as the norm on local stages. The hefty play from not all that long ago – the ones with an interval and sometimes even two – seem to have gone. The really old ones – the classics – are more likely to make [...]

First quarterly report: jobs onstage

by Editor 4 April 2011

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Facts & Figures

Here it is. Further to an earlier post Jobs for the girls: logging the stats and as promised, herewith the first of 4 planned reports of cast numbers in programmed productions for both subsidised companies in Brisbane in 2011.
Plays include: Julius Caesar; Boy Girl Wall (La Boite) and Sacré Bleu; Man=Man & The Elephant Calf; Water [...]

Review: boy girl wall – La Boite Theatre & The Escapists

by Kate Foy 1 April 2011

September 2011 – and they’re back! We probably won’t see it again this time since the season is sold out, and we hear that Mr Stibbard has added new jokes too! Ah well. Get along to one of the funniest, most inventive pieces of theatre you’ll ever see. It’s heading off on a national tour [...]

Review: Man=Man & The Elephant Calf – Queensland Theatre Company

by Kate Foy 6 March 2011

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Photo: Amelia Dowd (Bille Brown Studio – after the flood)
Off to the theatre last night to see QTC Ed’s (the Company’s education ‘wing’) production of two small Brecht pieces: Man=Man and The Elephant Calf. The mostly grown-up audience responded well to Director Joe Mitchell’s cleverly recalibrated, joyously performative and wonderfully funny examination of [...]

Memories of 2010 – and a few hopes for the new theatre year

by Kate Foy 1 January 2011

The light’s in the sky for the first day of 2011. Time to look back and sketch out – from a very personal perspective – a view of the theatre year just gone.
2010 in Queensland theatre was the year of change, and the word most often heard in conjunction with this sense of refreshment and [...]

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