Category: Theatre

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

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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?”

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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?”

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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

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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?”

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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?”

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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

I have 2 double passes to the special of ANOTHER ED SHEERAN TRIBUTE, 8pm Saturday 24 April, at Sandgate Town Hall.

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1) Like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What’s your favourite Ed Sheeran song?”

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One Night Only!

SYNOPSIS:

Another Ed Sheeran Tribute takes audiences on a journey through the love songs of the ever-talented British ginger. With his red check shirt and stubbly chin, vocalist Trent Sellars performs the artist’s greatest hits in an intimate acoustic show. First performed as part of Your Theatrics International Cabaret at the Brisbane Powerhouse in 2015, the show was further developed for presentation in collaboration with Moreton Bay Theatre Company as part of a 2019 Valentine’s Day special. In 2021, the show returns, bigger and better than ever. Presented by Lynch and Paterson, and featuring Ebony Hamacek as instrumentalist, join us for an evening of laughs, tears, trivia and maybe even a slow dance with a loved one.

Thanks to Trent Sellars

https://www.trentsellars.com/aest

I have 1 double pass to the opening night of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, 7:30pm Friday 16 April, at The Twelfth Night Theatre.

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 would be your pirate name?”

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Season running 16 – 18 April

SYNOPSIS:

The rollicking band of pirates are back! Lynch & Paterson’s highly acclaimed and all-new production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta will make port in Brisbane again in April 2021. With all new comedy, costumes and choreography, relive all of your favourite Pirate songs with live onstage orchestra, Cadenza Chamber Players, and let this “musical masterpiece” blow you away.”

An extremely high standard – one you would expect from a professional touring company” – Stage Whispers”

Energy of the show is irresistible” – Blue Curtains Brisbane

From swashbuckling pirates and bumbling police, to a dashing hero and a beautiful maiden; Gilbert and Sullivan’s hilarious and most memorable score is set to capture the hearts of all! 

Thanks to Lynch & Paterson