Shakespeare’s Othello is coming to the Queensland Theatre Stage this September!
The Imperial Japanese Navy bears south toward Far North Queensland and the bold Captain Othello and his battalion are all that stand in their way. Off the battlefields, Othello's life is just as turbulent. He has secretly married the daughter of a wealthy cane farmer. Her spurned suitor Roderigo joins forces with the envious Iago in a sinister plot to bring down the renowned military hero.
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This tri-lingual (Kala Lagaw Ya, Yumpla Tok and English) production, ...
Brisbane’s Queens Street Mall turns 40!
Put on your party clothes and step back in time when the City’s premier destination for fashion, retail, dining and entertainment marks this major milestone.
Queen Street Mall 40th Birthday Street Party
The celebrations spill into the street on 26 August with a free, all-ages Street Party. There are fashion runways, style workshops, live entertainment, a pop-up champagne bar, surprise giveaways and more throughout the day. Live music and roving performers will entertain visitors all ...
Art @ Portside Pop-up
Art @ Portside, curated by the Kairos Project, will feature a vibrant line-up of more than xx pieces of work by internationally renowned artists and photographers, which will rotate monthly to showcase new artwork for visitors to enjoy.
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Live drawing and painting demonstrations will also be hosted weekly by one of the installation’s star-studded artists in residence, including Garry Dolan, Rob Rek (and his pet macaw, Manco), and Aboriginal artist Louise Numina....
The world premiere of Tiddas delivers a love letter to Brisbane at La Boite!
Billed as a “love letter to Brisbane”, the stage version of Heiss’ best-selling novel premieres 5 to 24 September at La Boite’s Roundhouse Theatre after three years of creative development.
Tiddas, a commonly used term in the community for “women who are like sisters”, is a First Nations-led work about five best friends since childhood – Izzy, Veronica, Xanthe, Nadine and Ellen – whose monthly book club meetings cover life, love, literature and everything in between.
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Cinderella Theatre Review
The large cast cranks up the energy and the dance moves are impressive as are the lighting quick costume changes, it’s magic indeed. Production wise there are some problems, at times the amplified voices are too loud and shrill and the little ones will need to put their fingers in their ears to prevent damage,
It’s easy to get lost in a story so familiar and just admire the craft. The stage design and costumes are impressive as well as the choreography and vocal arrangements (even ...
The Purple Rabbit is coming to the Brisbane Festival this September!
From an 'alcoholic Harry Potter' of magic to 'The Unnamed Magician', an eccentric Gold Medal beatbox-juggler, a slight-of-foot juggler and the world's only Sexual Psychic-ologist, get set for a five-star evening of mischief, magic and mind-blowing mayhem.
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The Purple Rabbit
15—24 September
South Bank Piazza
www.brisbanefestival.com.au
Slow Boat is coming to the Brisbane Festival this September!
The men weave an epic tale of brotherhood and resilience, charting their journey from poverty and war in rural China, through hard work on Nauru island, then a hasty escape from the Japanese to Australia, and all the challenges they overcome on the way.
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Blending vaudeville, musical theatre, circus, Cantonese Opera and martial arts, Slow Boat is a play within a play, inspired by the unexpected arrival in Australia of playwright Anna Yen’s father, along with 580 ...
The 2022 Italian Film Festival returns this spring – with first highlights being announced!
The 2022 Festival opens in Brisbane on 21 September with Italian box office hit BELLI CIAO, starring comedic duo Pio and Amedeo. It follows two formerly inseparable friends who reunite in their hometown in Puglia after years apart, resulting in an entertaining north versus south culture clash. Opening Night receptions will include delicious Italian antipasti, Santa Margherita Prosecco and more.
Direct from the Cannes Film Festival is this year's Festival Centrepiece NOSTALGIA, directed ...
In Queer Time is coming to GOMA this August
The program brings together a selection of films which delve into these three areas. The first key reoccurring theme in the program is notions of family time, both biological and chosen. Woven throughout some of the films are the complicated relationships between queerness and motherhood. In some examples we encounter tense, complex and traumatic depictions of motherhood. In others, we are faced with figures who fulfill or take on matriarchal roles.
Another important idea is that queer ...
Kaleidoscope is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this August!
Kaleidoscope scales a deceptively simple optical device to epic proportions, allowing you to step inside a constantly shifting illusion. A brand-new solo project by one of the masterminds behind House of Mirrors and 1000 Doors, Kaleidoscope provides the brave and adventurous with a new and different space to explore, contemplate, and dream.
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An experience that disorientates the senses and challenges our preconceptions, providing access to a new kind of engagement ...
