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This Week in Queensland Theatre: 12-18 July

For more details check company websites

Opening:
Advanced Screening by Markwell Presents at Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, Wednesday.
I Love You Bro’ by  Adam J Cass Dir David Berthold for La Boite Theatre at the Roundhouse, Friday.  PS They are calling for tweet reviews of the show. You’ll need to follow them @LaBoiteTheatre first!

Continuing:
Tender by Nikki Bloom Dir Andrea Moor for !Metro Arts Independents 2010 at !Metro Arts
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl Dir Kate Cherry Queensland Theatre Company, Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Other:
Circa’s Term 3 Circus Training for adults and children commences on Monday 12.  Details on their Facebook page

Leon Cain’s daily videocasts of his rehearsals for the upcoming I Love You Bro’ are worth a look. Check them out on La Boite’s You Tube channel

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This Week in Queensland Theatre: 28 June-4 July

Brisbane, Queensland, Australie (carte du Quee...
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Further details on company websites or follow the hotlinks here

Previews, openings, freebie chats between playwrights with (bonus) sushi and wine, and playreadings at The Works next weekend.

Opening

Tender by Nikki Bloom Dir Andrea Moor for !Metro Arts Independents 2010 at !Metro Arts (Wednesday)

The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl Dir Kate Cherry Queensland Theatre Company, Cremorne Theatre, QPAC (Thursday)

Continuing

The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco Dir Brian Lucas: La Boite Theatre Company at the Roundhouse Theatre

Other

Special Event: Michael Gow in conversation with Nikki Bloom author of Tender and winner of the Patrick White Award (Tuesday 6-7pm Studio !Metro Arts)

The Works: Queensland Theatre Company: playreadings Queensland Theatre Company at Bille Brown Studio, 78 Montague Road, South Brisbane (Friday and Saturday)

Are you following Leon Cain’s daily vodcasts during the rehearsal period of La Boite’s next show I Love You Bro’?  You should be!
Subscribe to the La Boite You Tube channel, and never miss an episode.

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This Week in Queensland Theatre: May 31-June 6

A lonely yellow chair
Image by Ollie T. via Flickr

For further details on individual shows and events, see company websites

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)

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This Week in Queensland Theatre: 17-23 May

Exterior of the Old Museum Building in Brisbane.
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Check Company websites for show times and further details

Continuing:
Stockholm: STC for La Boite Theatre at the Roundhouse
The Timely Death of Victor Blott Dead Puppet Society at !Metro Arts
King Lear: Bell Shakespeare for Queensland Theatre Company at Playhouse, QPAC
Dante’s Inferno: Zen Zen Zo at the Old Museum Building
Songs for a New World: Harvest Rain Theatre Company at JWCoCA

Greenroom Reviews:
Stockholm (Kate Foy)
The Timely Death of Victor Blott (Kate Foy)

Other:
Resetting the Agenda: professional development workshop for artists presented by BCC at !Metro Arts. (Tuesday – Wednesday)

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Review: King Lear – Bell Shakespeare, Queensland Theatre Company & QPAC at QPAC

As I walk into the Playhouse Theatre for King Lear’s Brisbane opening night, I must admit I’m a little cautious.  A successful play that runs over three hours is an enigma.  If any play can do it, however, it’s King Lear, one of my favourite Shakespeare plays.  Perhaps I still had Queensland Theatre Company’s other recent production of Waiting for Godot in my mind, but I’m reminded that King Lear is the closest to existentialism that Shakespeare gets.  It’s a play where ‘nothing’ is a central theme, and where the protagonist deals with his own mortality with a tragic descent into madness.  The play is violent, heart-wrenching and devastating.  At least it’s supposed to be.  I’m afraid to say this latest production with John Bell in the lead doesn’t quite hit the mark. Continue reading “Review: King Lear – Bell Shakespeare, Queensland Theatre Company & QPAC at QPAC”