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Exciting new festival CIRCFest22 Meanjin is coming to Brisbane!

Over 10 days from 21 April to 1 May, 2022 more than 114 extraordinary performers will thrill, entertain and mesmerise audiences with 76 diverse performances across 6 venues in Brisbane including Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, The Tivoli, La Boite Theatre, The Ron Hurley Theatre, and Kingston Butter Factory. The brainchild of Cluster Arts, the nations’ celebrated production house for performing arts’ Circus & Physical Theatre companies, CIRCFest22 Meanjin will showcase First ...

The Kaye Hole is coming to QPAC this summer!

Don’t miss the hottest ticket in town this summer where the queerest, dirtiest, and wildest circus, comedy, burlesque, drag, and cabaret acts let loose, dripping in sweat and backed by a live band. Hosted by internationally renowned cabaret icon Reuben Kaye “the evil love child of Liza Minnelli and Jim Carrey” (British Theatre Guide), you’ll be guided through a diverse line up of thrilling entertainment including the bewitching burlesque star Jacqueline Furey, Australia’s ...

Bite Club: The Xmas Edition is coming to The Princess Theatre!

Australia’s infamous theatre thugs and carnie queens are serving up their signature concoction of circus, drag, burlesque and comedy in a silly, sassy and sexy showcase. Sahara and her rollcall of Brisbane's maven muso's team up with the Briefs boys and throw down an arty party like no other. We’ve checked twice and this show is definitely on the naughty list.   //   If your holiday season is in need of a good dose of art, spirit and decadence, this fabulously ...

Circa’s Humans 2.0 is coming to QPAC

Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to their extreme. Can we ever find a perfect balance or is adapting to constant change the only way forward?   //   This next chapter of Circa’s internationally acclaimed Humans is a tightly woven choreography of bodies, pulsing with music by composer Ori Lichtik and ...

Shaun the Sheep’s Circus Show is coming to QPAC this March!

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced that Queensland had secured the World Premiere season to be held at QPAC’s Lyric Theatre in March 2021. “Thanks to the way Queenslanders have managed the coronavirus pandemic, we’re now able to return to the theatre,” the Premier said. “Today’s announcement is a great win for Queensland, not only for our arts community but also for our economy as we continue to rebuild from the pandemic. “Shaun the Sheep is a global phenomenon. ...

Briefs: Bite Club is coming to The Tivoli!

Bite Club re-introduces Brisbane’s award-winning cult-cabaret mischief makers, circus stars and heart-stopping hooligans Briefs Factory International, as they go head-to-head with much celebrated and sainted song bird Sahara Beck. In an event sautéed in hedonistic haze, guests will be treated to a shotgun wedding and table settings of music, circus, drag, burlesque, theatre and comedy.   //   Under the ornate ceiling and on the punk infused flooring of Brisbane’s ...

Circa’s Leviathan is coming to the Brisbane Festival!

Under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz, 36 performers defy gravity as they propel themselves across the stage, tumbling, balancing and soaring together as one.   //   Exploring the massive and unpredictable energies that are unleashed in a civilisation careening toward an unknown fate, Leviathan offers hope in these complex times. Connecting the local with the global, it celebrates what we can achieve when we work together. The dramatic power and extreme skill of ...

Circa’s Peepshow is coming to Brisbane this Summer!

Circa’s Peepshow turns cabaret on its head, literally. Embark on a seductive dance through the hall of mirrors that is your imagination, lurching from the thrillingly acrobatic to the comically playful. Expect teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials.   //   Circa’s Peepshow combines some of the finest acrobatic talent on the planet to create a playfully exhilarating ride into the beautifully bizarre recesses of your ...

Under My Eye, the new circus work from Bianca Mackail is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse

She could stay confined in her visceral minefield of contradictions, deliberations and judgments, but she allows the box to crack open and exposes the honest shit storm of her ramblings and the joy and passion of her beautifully distorted chaos.   //   A fiercely vulnerable and extreme physical adventure into the unrelenting chitchat of the mind. Always searching for story, dissecting, criticising, categorising, judging and boxing them all up into distorted ideas and ...

Cirque du Soleil acclaimed show KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities™ is coming to Brisbane this January!

Due to overwhelming demand, the Brisbane season has already been extended through to February 9! KURIOS will premiere under a brand-new white-and-grey Big Top on 10 January 2020 in Northshore Hamilton. Written and directed by Michel Laprise, KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities is a tale in which time comes to a complete stop, transporting the audience inside a fantasy world where everything is possible. //   In this realm set in the latter half of the nineteenth century, ...