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Jesus Christ Superstar: Harvest Rain Theatre
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This Week in Queensland Theatre: June 14-20
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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
Letters from a voluntary exile: a third letter
GUEST POST: Nick Backstrom is an actor and writer, formerly based in Brisbane and more recently in Melbourne. He also sings, teaches and directs, though rarely at the same time. Nick’s Melbourne relocation will form the basis of his occasional posts to Greenroom. He would be delighted to respond to any comments or queries made here.
Hello friends
Let me tell you a story. I went to a casting the other day for an RACQ commercial. If I had landed it I would have been flown up to Brisbane to shoot it, and it was a Queensland-only ad. As I waited, one of the other actors asked the receptionist if they were looking all over Australia for the right face. She replied “Oh no, we just do all our casting out of Melbourne.” I told them that was why I moved to Melbourne from Brisbane. So it goes.
It’s been interesting reading all the stories recently about what’s wrong with Queensland theatre – or not wrong. May I weigh in? Too few venues, too little funding. I know, startling insights.
Melbourne is chocka with little venues seating less than one hundred or thereabouts. These places are affordable, accessible and if it all goes wrong, it really doesn’t matter. If it works, fantastic!
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This Week in Queensland Theatre: May 31-June 6
- Image by Ollie T. via Flickr
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As June rolls in there’s a definite hint of creative development in the Brisbane theatre air. !MetroArts leads the charge with a month long self-styled, drop-in house party Free Range. Across town La Boite is back with The Chairs, and Queensland Theatre Company with Fat Pig. The Restaged History Project people are back at the Powerhouse with Youth VS Physics, Empire Theatre opens Cosi in Toowoomba, and JUTE in Cairns has Dancing Back Home. You can even catch some acrobatics in KGS in Brisbane on Friday and dance, slam-poetry and digitalised music at !MetroArts during the week. Something for everyone really.
Opening:
Fat Pig by Neil LaBute Dir Morgan Dowsett: Queensland Theatre Company at Bille Brown Studio
The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco Dir Brian Lucas: La Boite Theatre Company at the Roundhouse Theatre
Cosi by Louis Nowra Dir Sam Atwell: Empire Theatre Projects Company, Empire Theatre (Toowoomba)
Dancing Back Home by Rod Ainsworth, Victoria Carless, Finegan Kruckmeyer, Amy Losiak, Carrie McLean and Inn O’Branagain: a JUTE/Mudlark Theatre co-production (Cairns)
Youth VS Physics – Restaged Histories Project at the Powerhouse, New Farm
Lights Please! Dance, slam-poetry and digitalised music: !Metro Arts, Edward Street.
Other
Free Range Houseparty creative development workshops. Drop in throughout the month. !MetroArts
Blind Date – acrobatics and other fun King George Square, City (Friday)
