07/11/2008
Free play reading of new Australian works
Queensland Theatre Company’s The Works is back and giving Brisbane audiences the opportunity to experience new works by Australia’s best playwrights for free.
In two staged play readings Queensland Theatre Company will present David Williamson’s latest work Let the Sunshine and Don’t Say the Words by young, up-and-coming playwright Tom Holloway. More...
10/09/2008
Fall in love with a Wilde romantic comedy
In one of the greatest, funniest stage plays ever written, two couples are tangled in a romantic web like none other. Jack falls for Gwendolyn but Gwendolyn loves Ernest. Jack is Ernest, only Gwendolyn doesn’t know it.
Meanwhile Jack’s ward Cecily thinks she loves Ernest, Algernon is convinced he loves Cecily so pretends to be Ernest – however Jack has arranged for the non-existent Ernest to die in Paris. When all four meet, hilarity ensues. More...
06/08/2008
Road to love leads North
It’s a last-chance romance when two single retirees sell their family homes in Melbourne and escape for a new life together in the Sunshine State in David Williamson’s Travelling North, presented by Queensland Theatre Company and HIT Productions. More...
18/06/2008
Be swept up by Cyclone Larry
In March 2006 tropical Cyclone Larry crossed the Queensland coast and devastated the community of Innisfail. In Sydney, playwright Adam Grossetti, born in Innisfail, phoned close friend actor/director Jean-Marc Russ to suggest they travel to the stricken town with the idea of writing a play about the cyclone. Reading a newspaper article about the death of an August Moon Caravan Park resident, Brian Young, Adam realised that behind every headline there’s a story and behind every story lies the truth.
What the two ‘gonzo’ playwrights discovered was a level of ruin that left them awestruck and a community betrayed at their most vulnerable. The real story of what happened that night has never been told, until now. More...
28/04/2008
Journey down the Rabbit Hole
It won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Nicole Kidman has signed up to the movie adaptation. Now Rabbit Hole has opened in Brisbane. Find out what The Sunday Mail has to say about this extraordinary production here...
20/02/2008
Premier's Drama Award - Finalists announced
Three talented local playwrights have been selected as finalists for the 2008-09
Queensland Premier's Drama Award. More...
12/02/2008
U30 Studio Nite for I Am My Own Wife
Anyone under 30 should check out Queensland Theatre Company’s latest show, I Am My Own Wife, as part of its U30 Studio Nite on Wednesday 2 April.
For $33 a ticket (+ booking fee) you’ll get to take in this cutting edge play, go behind-the-scenes with the show’s creators, drink up at the after party with the star Jean-Marc Russ and local electronic VJ Andrew Gibbs/Simulcast, and maybe even get your hands on one of the lucky door prizes. More...
12/02/2008
A woman's sacrafice for survival
Experience the awe-inspiring true story of one man living as a woman during the great European dramas of the 20th Century in Queensland Theatre Company’s I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright. In a one-man tour de force, star Jean-Marc Russ plays more than 40 characters, including the defiant Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. More...
11/01/2008
The not-so-gentle sex
Begin the year with Queensland Theatre Company’s outrageous comic delight The Female of the Species by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith. This feisty play wrangles with the hazards of die-hard feminists, pitting one generation against the next and promising a riotous night out. More...
21/12/2007
Bringing the World to Brisbane
Love and romance in Victorian England, a blood-thirsty general in Ancient Rome, these are just a few of the worlds Queensland Theatre Company plans to bring to you in 2008.
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