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The Penelopiad

I have 2 double passes to QSE’s performance of THE PENELOPIAD, for a performance of your choice from Wednesday Sept 6th (6:30pm), Thursday Sept 7th  (7:30pm), Friday Sept 8th (7:30pm), or Saturday Sept 9th (7:30pm) at PIP Theatre, Milton.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: How would you get rid of a menacing suitor?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #QSEPenelopiad, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNNING NOW UNTIL SEP 10!

SYNOPSIS:

Penelope, dutiful wife of Odysseus and less beautiful cousin of Helen, is ready to tell her story. 

Left alone for decades while Odysseus fights in the Trojan War, Penelope must face her own battles, managing Ithaca, difficult in-laws, her son, and hordes of increasingly menacing suitors. 

Adapted for the stage by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale), The Penelopiad is a contemporary take on Homer’s The Odyssey that sees Penelope and her twelve wronged maids take centre stage. Full of live music, poetry, tragedy, and Atwood’s wicked humour, The Penelopiad is sure to be a night of storytelling at its most epic!

For tickets head to : https://qldshakespeare.org/the-penelopiad/

Thanks to the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

I have a double pass to PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, for the performance on 19 August at 7:30pm at Studio 1, Yeeronpilly

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What do you love bringing to picnics?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #PicnicAtHangingRock, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS AUGUST 11 – 20

SYNOPSIS:

The Rock is a nightmare, and nightmares belong in the past…​

On a summer’s day in 1900, three school girls and their teacher climb the notorious Hanging Rock. All but one are ever seen again. And so, the nightmare begins. 

The iconic tale, but not as you know it. This haunting adaptation from Tom Wright (Black Diggers) ventures deep into the heart of Australia. Joan Lindsay’s classic has never been so enduring.

By arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical, on behalf of Nick Hern Books.

This highly-anticipated production fronts a five-piece female ensemble, shifting between multiple characters over 80 minutes in a contemporary retelling. Don’t miss this fresh-spin on the chilling Australian classic. Starring Malika Savory, Libby Harrison, Jules Broun, Leah Fitzgerald-Quinn and Téa Paige. Directed by Lachlan Driscoll.

For tickets head to : https://www.observatorytheatre.com/picnicathangingrock

Thanks to Observatory Theatre

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Top Girls

I have a double pass to TOP GIRLS, for any performance from 20 July – 12 August, at Ad Astra Theatre, Fortitude Valley.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What famous woman would you like to invite to dinner?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #TopGirls, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS JULY 20 – AUGUST 12

SYNOPSIS:

Patriarchy.

It’s a big word in our society at the moment.

Set in the early 1980s, Top Girls depicts the lifestyle and life choices of its central character, Marlene. A successful career woman, who’s just received a major promotion, who indisputably fought her way to the top to get it – Marlene’s star is rising. 

To celebrate, she throws a fabulous Saturday night dinner party for herself. In attendance are not friends, family, or colleagues, but astoundingly famous women from history, literature, and legend.  The women share their extraordinary experiences of life, work, love, and children. 

Enter Marlene to Top Girls Employment Agency, a dazzling hot and prominent business in central London where Marlene has just scored the prime position.   She is Top Girl in a man’s world, but she has a sister whose life is very different. The uncovering of their secrets reminds us of what is really important and what it is we are prepared to lose.

For tickets head to https://www.adastracreativity.com/productions/top-girls

Thanks to Ad Astra Theatre

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Beginning

I have a double pass to BEGINNING, for any performance from 13-29 July, at Pip Theatre, 20 Park Road, Milton 

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: Do you leave the party early, or stay until the end?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #BiginningPipTheatre, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS JULY 13 – 29

SYNOPSIS:

In the aftermath of Laura’s London housewarming party, Danny is the last man standing… Over a few more beverages and boogies, the pair try to navigate their vulnerabilities, overcome their fears and end their loneliness. Can they be brave, take a risk, and find the partnership they have been longing for?

An intimate and revealing play about trying to make a real connection later in life, with all of life’s baggage and online dating attempts. Beginning is a two-hander that runs for 100 minutes in real-time with no interval. Beginning was first performed in London at the National Theatre to a sold-out season and then transferred to the West End. This is the Australian premiere.

For tickets head to https://piptheatre.org/beginning/

Thanks to Pip Theatre

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Proof

I have a double pass to PROOF, for any performance from 15 June – 8 July, at Ad Astra Theatre, Fortitude Valley.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What quality have you inherited from your parents?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #Proof, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS JUNE 15 – JULY 8

SYNOPSIS:

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?

In a #MeToo era with the issue of Believing Women still a day-to-day battle, and with less than 30% of women making up Australia’s STEM-qualified workforce, David Auburn’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play is perhaps more timely now than it was in 2001.

For tickets head to https://www.adastracreativity.com/productions/proof

Thanks to Ad Astra Theatre

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Ordinary Days

I have 3 double passes to ORDINARY DAYS, at 141 Brookes St, Fortitude Valley for any performance from 15-25 June.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What do you like doing on just a plain Ordinary Day?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #OrdinaryDays, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS JUNE 15-25

SYNOPSIS:

Join us for the Brisbane professional premiere of cult-hit musical, Ordinary Days, by American composer and lyricist Adam Gwon!

The city that never sleeps is buzzing! Step into the lives of four extraordinary young people as their journeys intersect in the most amazing, hilarious and sometimes sad, ways! New Worlds Stage is transforming the beautiful, heritage-listed Holy Trinity Church Hall into the bustling Times Square in New York City.

Featuring exceptional Australian talent: Chelsea Burton, Daniel Kirkby, Stephanie Williams and Cal Silberstein, alongside swing/stand-by Jessica Kate Ryan and pianist/répétiteur Alexandra Angus. Musical Direction by Dr Dan Jess and Lighting Design by Nathaniel Knight.

For tickets head to https://www.neworldstage.au/ordinary-days

Thanks to New World Stage

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The Turquoise Elephant

I have a double pass to THE TURQUOISE ELEPHANT, at Studio1, 190 Station Rd, Yeerongpilly, on 7:30pm, Saturday 10 June.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What small change do you make for the environment?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #TurquoiseElephant, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS JUNE 2-11

SYNOPSIS:

From award-winning writer Stephen Carleton, The Turquoise Elephant explores our ridiculously slow response to climate change. Set in the future, this stage play shows Australia in the grip of climate change, with an absurd twist. Sea levels are rising. Species are dying. Cities are flooding. Basra, a journalist, knows she must do something, but what? Can she save the world one blog at a time? Combining social commentary with laugh-out-loud satire, The Turquoise Elephant asks all of us how far we would go to protect our environment.

For tickets head to https://www.observatorytheatre.com/the-turquoise-elephant

Thanks to Observatory Theatre

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Cosi

I have a double pass to a performance of your choice for COSI, at Theatre 102, 102 Anzac Avenue, Redcliffe, 21-30 April.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What subject would you like to write a play on?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #Cosi, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS APRIL 21-30

SYNOPSIS:

Set in 1970s Australia, this semi-autobiographical play by Louis Nowra introduces us to an older Lewis (who some audience members may know from Nowra’s earlier play – ‘Summer of the Aliens’). Lewis is now a university graduate who takes on a job of putting on a play – with a colourful cast of patients from a local mental asylum. While Lewis, under the strong influence of girlfriend Lucy and best mate Nick, plans on staging a meaningful play such as the likes of Brecht, his plans are thwarted when he discovers one of these patients has other ideas. An opera. Performed by madmen. In a burnt-out theatre. With just a piano. Oh, and none of them can actually sing.
What could possibly go wrong?
Make sure to come along and see what happens…

Recommended MA15+ at parental discretion. Coarse language.

For tickets head to: www.trybooking.com/cgdos

Thanks to Ghostlight Theatre Co.

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I Love You, Bro

I have a double pass to the preview night performance of I LOVE YOU, BRO by Adam J A Cass, at FIRE STATION 101 –
101 Limestone Street, Ipswich, on 7:30pm, Wednesday 15 March.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: Where do you go on the internet for a bit of solace?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #ILoveYouBro, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS MARCH 15 – 25

SYNOPSIS:

Meet Johnny: a lonely 14-year-old boy from Manchester with a troubled home life and a vivid imagination. Johnny finds solace on the web in his online channels of chatter with faceless friends. Johnny’s online world is turned upside down when he comes across a local teen from the real world in one of his chat rooms. A fast friendship is formed in a web of lies that leads to a series of events with dark consequences.

I Love You, Bro, written by Melbourne-based writer Adam J A Cass in 2007 and was first performed that year at the Melbourne Fringe. The play has since had productions in Brisbane, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark and Germany.

Based on true events, I Love You, Bro is a modern murder mystery born from the digital age that has to be seen to be believed.

For tickets head to https://www.ipswichciviccentre.com.au/event/i-love-you-bro/

Thanks to THAT Production Company

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A Life In The Theatre

I have a double pass to a performance of of your choice of Ad Astra Theatre Company’s, A LIFE IN THE THEATRE, at Ad Astra Theatre, Fortitude Valley, March 2 – March 25.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: Did you ever want to have a Life in the Theatre world?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #ALifeInTheTheatre, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS MARCH 2 – 25

SYNOPSIS:

“…the Theatre…it’s all part of one’s life.”
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “Glengarry Glen Ross” comes a hilarious and heartwarming tale of two actors exploring the meaning of life.

“We are explorers of the soul.”

Legendary stage actor, Robert (Francis McMahon, “Elvis”, “Ticket to Paradise”), takes aspiring stage actor, John (Jesse Richardson, “A Godless Country”, “Elvis”), under his, not-so-benevolent, wing as they traverse a season of plays, bars, and gigantic egos…

A must-see comedic experience which will have you laughing out loud whilst tugging at your heartstrings.

Thanks to Ad Astra Theatre Company