Category: Theatre

I have a double passes to a performance of your choice* of The X Collective and Hush Hush Biz’s WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT Theatre Production, at Fate Container Studios, West End.

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 to improvise?

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

SEASON RUNS 7 – 30 OCTOBER

SYNOPSIS:

For some performers it’s their worst nightmare, for others it is a moment of catharsis. With no rehearsals, no director, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, and a different actor each performance. Internationally acclaimed ‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit,’ is a daring theatrical experiment, a transcendent piece of alive and kicking, avant-garde theatre.

‘The X Collective’ has put together a stellar cast of performers for their 2022 season of ‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit,’ Including a wide array of local favourites scheduled to perform alongside nationally known actors slated to brave the unknown.

October 7th: Sandro Colarelli & Sandra Harman
October 8th: Roxanne McDonald & Thea Raveneau
October 9th: Rebecca Riggs & Calum Johnston
October 14th: Steven Tandy & Greg Scurr
October 15th: Amanda Muggleton & Caroline Sparrow
October 16th: Kristian Santic & Panayiota with extra special guest Nell Campbell
October 21st: Patience Hodgson & Hayden Parsons
October 22nd: Sean Dennehy & Jodie Taylor
October 23rd: Steve Rooke & Chris Batkin
October 28th: Eugene Gilfedder & Rebecca Saunders-Smith
October 29th: Bernadette Pryde & Beverley Marcusson
October 30th: Terry Hansen & Amanda McErlean
Each of these performers is amazing in their own way, a strong storyteller and incredibly captivating.

*dependent on availability of tickets/sold out status

I have 2 double passes to a performance of your choice of Ad Astra Theatre Company’s, MARVIN’S ROOM, 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 binds your family together?

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

SEASON RUNS 1 – 24 SEPTEMBER

SYNOPSIS:

Set in Florida, Marvin’s Room is a bittersweet and at times acerbic and darkly humorous study of a family learning to love the ties that bind. A seriocomedy, this play will resonate with anyone who has dealt with issues of aging, mortality and caring.

A story that throws together characters who are dealing with aging, estrangement, mental illness, carer fatigue, and ties that bind a family; this play has a heart that is visible only once you excavate the layers of frustration, conflict, nostalgia, habit and façade which are the everyday stuff of life for all families.

Purchase tickets here: https://www.adastracreativity.com/productions/marvins-room

Thanks to Ad Astra Theatre Company

I have a double pass to a performance of your choice of Ghostlight Theatre Co’s, TWELVE ANGRY MEN, at KSP Theatre, Burpengary

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 makes you angry?

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #12AngryMen, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

SEASON RUNS 9 – 24 SEPTEMBER

SYNOPSIS:

“Ghostlight Theatre Co. is proud to present their latest production, ‘Twelve Angry Men’. 

A contemporary take on the iconic play by Reginald Rose. Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a teenager accused of murdering his father. Eleven are convinced of his guilt but one has doubt…

Directed by Susan O’Toole Cridland. Presented by Ghostlight Theatre Co. in association with KSP Theatre Inc.

9-24 September, KSP Theatre, Burpengary. Tickets on sale at www.trybooking.com/CANQX“

Thanks to Ghostlight Theatre Co

I have 2 double passes to a special preview of Queensland’s Shakespeare Ensembles’, THE ROVER, 7:30pm Friday 19 August at The Ampitheatre, Roma St Parklands.

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 would you dress up in for Carnival?”

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

SEASON RUNS 19 AUGUST – 4 SEPTEMBER

SYNOPSIS:

Two sisters throw themselves into the chaotic streets of Naples during Carnival. One in search of her forbidden true love, the other in search of a good time! As their paths cross with a band of exiled English Cavaliers, Europe’s most famous Courtesan and a host of colourful characters we are taken on a thrilling yet dangerous ride full of music, revelry, and masquerades.

From the pen of England’s first female professional playwright (and sometimes spy), comes a play that scandalized 17^th century audiences and continues to ask bold questions about freedom, anonymity, class, and sexual politics.

Head to http://qldshakespeare.org/the-rover/ for more information and ticket sales.

Thanks to Qld Shakespeare Ensemble

I have 1 double passes to a performance RUBY MOON, for any show (pending availability), showing at Ad Astra Theatre, 57 Misterton St in Fortitude Valley

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Make sure you like @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post,
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What have you lost and haven’t found yet?”

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the #RubyMoon, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or below!

Season running 21 July – 13 August

SYNOPSIS:

In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward, until the day when little Ruby Moon sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again.

The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation and potential crime. Ray and Sylvie Moon struggle to come to terms with the disappearance of their six year old daughter, and hoping to trigger someone’s memory of having seen Ruby they keep a child mannequin who is dressed in the same clothes Ruby was last seen in.

The case has long gone cold, and they are almost ready to give up hope when a parcel containing the arm of Ruby’s doll arrives on their doorstep. Desperate for answers, they go up and down the street to re-interview their eccentric neighbours, any of whom could be responsible, including a bible-thumping elderly woman, an ex-soldier who still lives with his mother, Ruby’s creepy babysitter and even a mad scientist. The strangest of all is “The Wizard” – a former runaway who returned home to find his parents had moved away. He is never seen, but will often knock on the Moons’ door.

Haunted by their missing child, Ray and Sylvie descend further into a nightmarish world where the boundaries between the real and imaginary become increasingly blurred.

Where is Ruby and who knows what happened to her? Did she ever exist?

Written by Matt Cameron in 2003, Ruby Moon is a contemporary play that explores the grim mythology of the missing child in Australian folklore, about the prevailing fear of our times and looks at the nature of that unease that lurks in the world that we live in. It combines elements of absurdism, gothic horror, black comedy, and fairy tales with the paranoia of post-9/11 suburbia as well as drawing inspiration from real-life headlines about missing children

Tickets here: https://www.adastracreativity.com/productions/ruby-moon

Thanks to Ad Astra

I have 1 double passes to a performance TOMORROW NIGHT, 7:30pm Wednesday 22 June, showing at Metro Arts Theatre, West End.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Make sure you like @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post,
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: Is your life the crashing and thrashing of waves, or the calm bobbing of water past the breakers?”

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Season running 22-25 June

SYNOPSIS:

THAT Production Company are bringing their multi-award nominated, critically acclaimed production of Sea Wall by Simon Stephens to Brisbane. Director, Timothy Wynn (Matilda Award nominee for Best Director) will once again team up with Steven Rooke (Matilda Award nominee for Best Actor) to bring his tour-de-force performance of this one man show to the New Benner Theatre.

“There’s a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it.”

Meet Alex: doting father, loving husband, loyal son, gentle soul. Spend an evening listening to his story, wading through musings of family, spirituality, art, doubt, love, and loss, between crashing waves of tragedy and hope.

Sea Wall was written by award-winning writer Simon Stephens (Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time) for Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag).

With wry humour and resolute honesty, Sea Wall is a delicate, unforgettable, and intimate confession, at once brutal and beautiful.

Tickets here: https://metroarts.com.au/event/sea-wall/

Thanks to Mirraball Productions

I have 1 double passes to a performance of your choice of RABBIT HOLE, showing at Ad Astra theatre at 57 Misterton St, Fortitude Valley

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What brings you comfort in life?”

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the #RabbitHole, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or below!

Season running March 23 – April 9

SYNOPSIS:

Rabbit Hole is an honest, brave, and searingly touching portrait of a family experiencing the most heartbreaking of griefs.

The play follows Becca and Howie Corbett, a couple in their late thirties, in the months following a horrific accident. They are searching for what is still possible in everyday existence after unimaginable agony. Becca finds pain in the familiar, while Howie finds comfort. He wants to hold on to the memories, cherish them, obsess over them; she wants to move on, erase the past, and start fresh.

Cracks begin to appear in the relationship as Howie bonds with a member of their therapy group and Becca reaches out to a teenage boy with an intertwined past. Tensions are only increased with the tumultuous involvement of Becca’s mother, Nat, and her sister, Izzy.

The journey for this couple, this family, is an intimate glimpse into loved ones learning to re-engage with one another, couples learning to love again, and people learning to piece themselves together after everything falls apart.

Thanks to Ad Astra

I have 1 double pass to a performance of the Opening Nights of DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, 7:30pm Friday 19 November at Ad Astra theatre, 57 Misterton St, Fortitude Valley

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What’s the most intense film/play you’ve seen?”

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the #DeathAndTheMaiden, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or below!

Season running 19 November – 4 December

SYNOPSIS:

Ad Astra’s final production for 2022 is the chilling Death and the Maiden, written by Ariel Dorfman and directed by Jacqueline Kerr. Set in Latin America, the story centres around 3 main characters: Paulina Salas, played by Sandra Harman, a woman whose horrific kidnapping, torture and rape at the hands of government officials comes back to haunt all three characters. Her husband Gerado Escobar, a lawyer who has just been appointed to a commission charged with investigating murders carried out by the previous dictator’s regime, is played by Gary Farmer-Trickett. And Tom Coyle plays Dr Roberto Miranda, an enigmatic and mysterious man whom Paulina believes to be her torturer, though his guilt is somewhat
ambiguous.

This is not a play for the faint of heart. Exploring themes such as trauma, memory, justice and injustice, freedom, female empowerment and forgiveness, we are taken on a tense journey which will hold a mirror to us all, as we grapple with some of these difficult themes.

For tickets and show times head to https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=818151&

Thanks to Ad Astra Theatre

I have a double pass to a performance of THAT Production Company’s production of ‘tick, tick… Boom!’ at Ipswich Civic Centre for Thursday, 28 October at 7:30 PM.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What’s your favourite musical?”

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the #TickTickBoom, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or below!

Season running 28 – 30 October

SYNOPSIS:

An aspiring composer questions his life choices on the eve of his thirtieth birthday in Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical.
Jon’s girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue and, yet, he is still waiting on tables and trying to write the great American musical. The musical performs ahead of the Netflix release in November. 

For full details and show times head to https://www.ipswichciviccentre.com.au/event/tick-tick-boom/

Thanks to the THAT Production Company and Mirraball Productions

I have 2 double pasess to a performance of Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble’s Romeos & Juliet, valid for any show from 1st-12th September at the Roma Street Parklands Ampitheatre.

For your chance to win a double pass,
1) Like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What’s your favourite Romeo & Juliet quote?”

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the #QSERomeoJuliet, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or below!

Season running August 26 – September 12

SYNOPSIS:

This August, the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble launches its 20th Birthday celebrations with a Spring season of Romeo & Juliet.

In a city torn apart by warring families, two young people push back against the expectations surrounding them. Juliet refuses to allow her life and sexuality to be traded for security, while Romeo distances himself from the boys club mentality in which he was raised. In their greatest act of defiance, the two teenagers find unexpected love. But, is youthful love enough to mend ancient rifts?

Marking the ensemble’s return to the beautiful Roma Street Parkland, Romeo & Juliet promises to deliver the clarity, joy, and live music that QSE has become known for over the last 20 years.

For full details and show times head to http://qldshakespeare.org/romeojuliet/

Thanks to the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble