News and What’s On: This Week in Queensland Theatre November 29-December 5 2010

What’s On
Check company websites for more details, including show times

Continuing:

The New Dead: Medea Material a multi-disciplinary interpretation of the Medea myth from the text by Heiner Muller at the Roundhouse Theatre

Trolley Boys by Alex Cullen at !Metro Arts Sue Benner Theatre

Grimm Tales adapted by Carol Ann Duffy and dramatised by Tim Supple, Dir Michael Futcher, Queensland Theatre Company at Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

News

Greenroom now tweets out a daily digest called Greenroom Asides of the tweets posted by us and by those we follow or ‘curate’ as Twitter has it. If you are on Twitter and follow Greenroom (you do, don’t you?) you will already have seen these as they flow in during the day; they contain some of the best theatre-related links you’ll find anywhere. You can also read them all gathered together here in an online newspaper or magazine format, complete with images. You might care to subscribe to Greenroom Asides if you don’t tweet …

The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art invites independent Queensland artists and companies to apply for Fresh Ground, their artist-in-residency program due to kick off in early to mid 2011.  Successful applicants get $10,000 in space, expertise and equipment to develop, create and rehearse new projects across a range of genres.  Katherine Lyall-Watson recently interviewed Ruth Hodgman, the Judy’s Director about the concept of Fresh Ground. Just remember to get your application in by December 3.

La Boite’s Season 2011 is looking most engaging. We especially like their website and the spooky, smoking fridge in their season trailer.