Queensland Theatre Company

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

by Kate Foy 3 June 2011

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kat Henry (Interview 16)

by Editor 30 March 2011

Photo: Kat Henry
Much of the talk in town and on the interwebs right now concerns gender equity in the theatre. Women playwrights and directors and actors continue to battle what many are calling, perhaps intemperately – but who can blame them – ‘the boys’ club.’ It’s not just here either; American and British women have [...]

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 [...]

Jobs for the girls? Logging the stats

by Editor 23 February 2011

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Facts & Figures

When subsidised theatre companies announce their seasons for the year, one of the hottest topics around relates to an industrial issue – employment opportunities. Whilst there is also great interest in what shows will be produced, it’s the jobs and casting that draw the attention of a city’s artists and creatives. As to the issue [...]

2010 Groundling Awards: and the winners are …

by Editor 14 February 2011

If you landed here, you may have clicked the Nominate Now button on Greenroom’s front page. You have jumped the gun a bit! Nominations open for the 2011 Groundlings Awards at one minute past midnight on 1st January. Click on the Nominate Button then or at any time after that until midnight on 31st January [...]

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