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Reviews

Greenroom focusses on professional theatre produced in Queensland. Here you will find reviews of most productions from Brisbane’s major and independent companies. Our archive of production reviews commenced in September 2009.

Review: James and the Giant Peach – Harvest Rain Theatre Company at Cremorne Theatre QPAC

by Kate Foy 8 January 2012

Southbank was teeming with littlies yesterday. Of course, it’s summer time and school holidays so, apart from swimming and eating icecream on a hot Brisbane Saturday afternoon, there were lots of things to do – singing, mask-making, theatre-going and story-telling among them. I had lunch while a bunch of what looked like under-5s were jumping [...]

Review: Ruben Guthrie – La Boite Theatre at The Roundhouse

by Kate Foy 16 October 2011
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My local bottle department practically gives away the booze. Pop in any afternoon of the week and there’s almost always a tasting going on – handy little refreshments for drivers heading home after a hard day. The specials are stacked up in tempting piles round the shop. When I remark on the week’s ‘buy one, [...]

Review: No Man’s Land – Queensland Theatre Company & Sydney Theatre Company at Bille Brown Studio

by Kate Foy 23 September 2011
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The last time I was at the Bille Brown Studio some weeks back it was in an unholy mess – the lads and lasses from The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Company had seen to that during the course of I Feel Awful. I wrote afterwards of feeling sorry for the stage management team who had [...]

Review: I Feel Awful – Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm at Bille Brown Studio

by Kate Foy 8 September 2011
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What a hoot this show is – a refreshingly anarchic romp that takes the piss out of theatre and itself; I think this lack of pretension in I Feel Awful is one of the things I liked most about it.
Whilst it is dedicated to the ‘late’ Michael Gow (he is no such thing – MG has never [...]

Review: The Hamlet Apocalypse – The Danger Ensemble and La Boite Indie at The Roundhouse

by Kate Foy 26 August 2011
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Back to the theatre last evening for the first performance of the final production in La Boite’s 2011 Indie program. It’s The Danger Ensemble’s The Hamlet Apocalypse directed and designed by Steven Mitchell Wright. It’s had previous seasons in Melbourne and Adelaide, and it’s now back home. Last night was the first time I’ve caught a [...]

Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Queensland Theatre Company at QPAC Playhouse

by Kate Foy 23 August 2011
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So evocative are Ben Collins’ sound and David Murray‘s lighting designs for Kate Cherry‘s excellent production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  that you can almost hear the skeeters hummin’ on the honeysuckle vine, feel the cooling breeze off the Delta, and smell the coming storm’s electricity in the oppressive air. The crackle of electricity within the [...]

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