Our Blood Runs in the Street is coming to Metro Arts this week!
Blending physical theatre with verbatim text, the production creates a searing and unapologetic look at how prejudice and bias have contributed to the violence against LGTBQI+ Australians for decades.
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Our Blood Runs in the Street
13 - 16 July 2022
Metro Arts, West End, Brisbae
www.metroarts.com.au
Mad Dance Festival is back!
The festival is an opportunity to showcase the world-class street dance artists right here in Brisbane and across Australia. B-boys, B-girls, poppers and lockers, and hip-hop heavy-weights are taking over Metro Arts for an unmissable 2-week line-up of performances, creative developments, battles, workshops, artist talks and activations.
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Mad Dance Festival 2022
8 - 18 June 2022
Metro Arts, West End, Brisbane
www.metroarts.com.au
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 ...
Face to Face is coming to Metro Arts this March!
However, one girl just like her, her niece Maddie, has just shown up on her doorstep in the middle of the night, disillusioned and far away from the same community that Leila left behind, and she’s about to make her understand just how far she’s strayed from home.
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Face to Face is an intimate drama about two women navigating the complex effects of disconnecting from Country, and criticism from your community, your family, and above all, yourself.
This is one ...
Blue Bones by Merlynn Tong is coming to Metro Arts!
Just in time for the return of international travel, be transported to Singapore with all its beauty, rigidity and insistent chaos for this funny, confronting, but ultimately uplifting story of love, abuse and survival - Blue Bones by nationally renowned performer and playwright Merlynn Tong.
When a woman finds scars left by her ex-boyfriend of many years ago etched into her bones, she is compelled to unpack her past and discover how he got under her skin.
Based on the true story of two ...
Restrung Festival finds its home at Metro Arts!
The three-day program features a dazzling program of celebrated and emerging talent, packed with bespoke events, unique collaborations and bold new works.
Festival Curator and award-winning cellist Danielle Bentley said, “I’m so excited to announce the fourth edition of Restrung Festival has found its home at the incredible new Metro Arts venue this October.”
“For the uninitiated, this is an experience for the savvy listener and the curious at heart. The 2021 festival will be ...
Cowboy, featuring a score from Ben Ely is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
From surfing trains to taming horses to wandering the desert, this work unpacks your ability to have a complete, genuine, and meaningful experience as an imagined self.
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Saddle up and enter the world of Cowboy for a poignantly funny yet sensitive ride.
Cowboy
4 – 6 September 2020
Metro Arts, West End
www.brisbanefestival.com.au
Giants Among Us video installation is currently playing at Metro Arts
Passers-by become audience as they bear witness to gentle giants sharing an invitation to pause, watch and listen. Towering above passers-by, children peer, play and pace, asking audiences the question; do you notice us now?
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Created in collaboration with children through a series of exploratory workshops, Giants Among Us is a reflection on Article 13 of the UN Convention on the rights of the Child, which states that “the child shall have the right to freedom of ...
Forbidden Romance: A Love Cabaret at Metro Arts
Now we turn the tables on opera and musicale! With the stunning voices of Irena Lysiuk and Henry Kafoa, music’s greatest genre rivals are entwined in their own romantic comedy Forbidden Romance: A love cabaret! Drama and hilarity will ensue!
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Join Brisbane City Opera as we explore the turmoils and tantrums of this forbidden love through the all-time favourites of opera and the modern musicals.
Forbidden Romance: A Love Cabaret
5 – 8 February 2020
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Boyle and Waters in Leotard at Metro Arts
Two performers. Dozens of vintage leotards. A million sequins.
Who were the women who wore these leotards? What were their secrets? And how many interpretive dance routines will there be?
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Leotards reveal the truth of the body, underneath the most absurd layers of adornment. In LEOTARD, Boyle and Waters reveal the truths of these characters under their absurd adornment of mental sequins. Leotard is a timely exploration of the performance of womanhood via ...
