Good theatre is a performance-enhancing drug. Like blood-doping, it feels like there’s extra oxygen in the bloodstream, more ideas in our head than before.  
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Queensland Theatre Company

Season(s) 2012: the new and the independent ftw

by Editor 25 October 2011
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Last night La Boite Theatre announced its 2012 or ‘twenty twelve’ season on their fresh look website complete with a maroon coloured (Queensland?) splattered torso – not quite sure what that’s about but, as with the new-look QTC logo (below) your guess as to meaning – if you need that kind of thing – is as [...]

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 [...]

Wesley Enoch (Interview 28 )

by Kate Foy 2 September 2011
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I’m interviewing Wesley Enoch in his inner-city apartment in Brisbane – 5 minutes on foot to Queensland Theatre Company headquarters on South Bank where he is Artistic Director, and 7 minutes to the Airtrain connection at South Brisbane station – important when you do as much travel as he does. He loves walking to relax [...]

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 [...]

Michelle Miall (Interview 23)

by Editor 15 June 2011
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It’s a cold, wintery day as I speak with Michelle Miall, director and Matilda Award-winner about her work – her current production is Colder for the 2011 La Boite Theatre Indie season which opens next week.
Michelle is a QUT graduate with a BA Drama Hons (Theatre Studies). By her third year, she found [...]

Review: Faustus – Queensland Theatre Company & Bell Shakespeare @ Brisbane Powerhouse

by Kate Foy 3 June 2011
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Michael Gow has not so much adapted Marlowe’s and Goethe’s pre-existing Faustus texts as editorialised them with a whole range of other western cultural materials – poetry, drama, music, song and film. He’s woven them together with his own words into a contemporary take on the man who bargains his soul away to the devil in [...]

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