The Works

Hot Off The Press Event (2009)

Each year Queensland Theatre Company presents The Works, a season of play readings that supports writing projects at the stage of development where they most need it – facilitating creative development and exposing new work at an early stage to a select audience. Over the course of the year several writers from Queensland and the rest of Australia will work with the Company developing new plays, with their development culminating in public readings.

Coming Up: The Works 1

Friday 2 July, 7.30PM

Directed by Michael Gow, 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...

Saturday 3 July, 7.30PM

Directed by Melanie Wild, one of the Company's 2010 Emerging Artists, 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 Six unlikely characters converge - Anni, a government youth worker is accompanied by a withdrawn fourteen year-old girl, pregnant Emma awaits her husband, a drunken country cop and a teenage boy lurks on the perimeter of the motel, watching the man in room 6.

Tickets for both shows are $10 and can be booked through QTIX