Bitch on Heat is coming to the Brisbane Festival
Absurdist lip-synch meets high-camp performance art in this pop-fuelled critique of sexual politics in the age of implied consent. Nothing is sacred as psycho-siren Leah Shelton, directed by UK provocateur Ursula Martinez, trawls through a Pandora’s box of ancient myths, porn, pop-culture, instructional records and revenge movie heroines.
Welcome to the doghouse. Beware. This Bitch bites.
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"★★★★★ - Smart and hilarious, Bitch On Heat doesn’t waste a single ...
Invisible Cities – Brisbane Festival’s most ambitious production to date!
Built out of necessity to house the epic work it will host, the bespoke1050-seat auditorium will exist for five nights only – making it a true ‘festival-only’ experience.
Loosely based on the 1972 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities is an audacious multi-artform spectacle, a fantasy conjured by an international team of creative innovators that plays its exclusive Australian season from 24 – 28 September, made possible with new support from the Queensland ...
Nourish the body and mind at Dancenorth’s dinner party with a difference
Part-dance performance, part-interactive theatre piece, part-dinner date, Communal Table is a Brisbane Festival commission set to nourish both body and mind.
The genre-busting work is created by acclaimed contemporary dance company Dancenorth and is one of several Brisbane Festival productions programmed in unusual and non-traditional venues.
Dinner, dance and dialogue is served at The Joinery, in inner-Brisbane’s West End, with guests first invited to wander silently through the ...
Swing On This heading to Brisbane for the Brisbane Festival this September!
A quartet of leading men from Australia’s stage and screen swing through a repertoire of jazz and big band classics, interspersed with surprising takes on crowd-pleasing contemporary hits.
The tuxedo-clad foursome, made up of Ben Mingay (Home & Away, Wonderland, Dirty Dancing), Matt Lee (So You Think You Can Dance, Mary Poppins), Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, The Ten Tenors) and Michael Falzon (Evita, Rock of Ages), deliver a dashing performance sure to delight.
Their ...
BLANC De BLANC returns to the Brisbane Festival this September!
Featuring the same intoxicating blend of acrobatic artistry and risqué revelry that cemented its predecessor’s place at the top of the box office, BLANC De BLANC ENCORE fizzes and froths at The Courier-Mail Spiegeltent from 5 - 28 September.
“This is the spectacular, entertaining-as-hell encore audiences have been waiting for,” Brisbane Festival Artistic Director David Berthold said.
“Following a sold-out Sydney Opera House season; flirtatious performers, edge-of-the-seat ...
From the Black Titanic to Christ’s Crucifixion: South Africa’s Isango Ensemble Deuts a searing duet
One, the devastating story of “The Black Titanic”, the other, a spellbinding musical enactment of Christ’s final hours on earth, playing QPAC’s Playhouse Theatre and Concert Hall from 5-7 September and 8 September, respectively.
Based in Cape Town, Isango Ensemble is internationally renowned for re-imagining Western theatre classics and presenting them with a South African perspective.
Brisbane Festival Artistic Director David Berthold said that this award-winning company has ...
Planet of the Apes 50th Anniversary Screening on Riverfire night!
With a Sci-Fi & Superheroes backing soundtrack to light up the Brisbane skyline, what better way to celebrate this year’s fireworks than with one of the best river views in Brisbane, followed with a 50th Anniversary screening of the Sci-Fi Classic, Planet of the Apes!
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There’ll be giveaways… and, more importantly, the Bar will be very much open - serving drinks and our award-winning cinema favourites to bring into the movie with you.
Escape the crowds ...
Brisbane Festival is returning this September with a fantastic program!
There will be almost 600 performances – 100 of them free – of almost 70 shows across 17 venues. More than 1,000 artists are involved.
In a coup for Queensland, Brisbane Festival will premiere eight brand new works, involving major commissions from some of Australia’s leading companies including Circa, Dancenorth and Legs on the Wall.
Program highlights include two major Riverstage music events bookending the Festival on the opening and closing nights and headlined by homegrown ...
The Aints Play The Saints ’73-’78 at the Brisbane Festival
Originally spawned in the early nineties, The Aints sought to bring justice to the sound and attitude of the original Brisbane-based band, capturing their energy and awesome onstage presence.
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Alongside bassist Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys), drummer Paul Larson (The Celibate Rifles), keyboardist Alister Spence and a guest brass section, The Aints 2.0 will perform songs that spanned their three ground-breaking albums: the proto-punk classic ‘(I’m) Stranded’ (1977), ...
Regurgitator perform The Velvet Underground & Nico at the Brisbane Festival
Regurgitator have never met a musical genre they couldn’t lovingly poke a few holes in, or a tongue-in-cheek performance art stunt they didn’t like the flavour of. Here’s their faithful but fresh take on one of the greatest albums of all time – a love letter from one set of enduring eccentrics to another.
The show sees Quan, Ben and Peter joined by Seja on keys (and some key vocal duties) and Mindy Meng Wang on the Chinese guzheng.
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This performance will ...
