Author: Kate Foy

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Empire Theatre Projects Company: April’s Fool (season)

Black Toyota presents an Empire Theatre Project Company production of

April’s Fool

12&13 August – 8pm Oakey Cultural Centre
17 August, Chinchilla Cultural Centre
18 August, Great Hall, Dalby High School
19 August, Ipswich Civic Centre
24-26 August, Judith Wright Centre

A true story of love, family, strength…and the choices we make. In April 2009, twoweeks short of his nineteenth birthday, Toowoomba teenager Kristjan Terauds died due to complications from illicit drug use.

Inspired by ‘April’s Fool’, an account of his son’s death by Kristjan’s father, the Empire Theatre commissioned award-winning playwright, David Burton to bring this story to the stage.

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The Works: Queensland Theatre Company @ Bille Brown Studio

Bull by Matthew Ryan (2 July)

Matthew Ryan’s Bull is a comedic and bloodthirsty exploration of love, sex and invention based on Greek mythology. Daedalus is an out-of-favour inventor, and must solve King Minos’ problem – his wife Queen Pasiphaë is in love with a bull. Solutions are thin on the ground and a mechanical animal may just be the answer King Minos is looking for…

Director: Michael Gow
Cast includes: Jason Klarwein, Nick Newth, Bryan Probets, Melanie Zanetti

The Dark Room by Angela Betzien (3 July)

Angela Betzien’s The Dark Room is a haunting psychological thriller set at a run-down motel on the edge of a military town. Six unlikely characters converge – Anni, a government youth worker is accompanied by a withdrawn fourteen year-old girl, pregnant Emma awaiting her husband, a drunken country cop and a teenage boy lurks on the perimeter of the motel, watching the man in room 6.

Director: Melanie Wild
Cast includes: Kerith Atkinson, Jason Klarwein, Nick Newth, Bryan Probets, Belinda Raisin, Melanie Zanetti

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This Week in Queensland Theatre: June 14-20

Further details on company websites

Opening:

Bindjareb Pinjarra (Tuesday-Thursday) Visy Theatre at Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Cabaret Festival (Wednesday) Various locations

Continuing:
Out of the Box Festival: QPAC -all over!
The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco Dir Brian Lucas: La Boite Theatre Company at the Roundhouse Theatre
Fat Pig by Neil LaBute Dir Morgan Dowsett: Queensland Theatre Company at Bille Brown Studio
Dancing Back Home: JUTE and Mudlark Theatre (Cairns)
Brave New World Order – a serious rock-opera by Clarry Evans and Brett Heath: Brisbane Powerhouse

Other
Free Range Houseparty creative development workshops.  Drop in throughout the month.  !MetroArts