B MOVIES LIVE will return to Brisbane as part of Anywhere Festival and performed over three big nights – 12, 19 & 26 May – at Heya Bar, Fortitude Valley.

B MOVIES LIVE features a team of actors who bring a collection of “B Movies” – a low-budget film so bad it’s good – to life, with suitably dodgy props, costumes and sound effects.

The gang are back with a new season – and live re-enactments of some even worse movies from the low-budget Hollywood vaults.

The May 2019 shows will present triple features each night – starring vampires, bugs and dinosaurs. Each night will be a different experience and different movie program – and it’ll be up to the audience to ensure the actors finish the show in one piece.

From a 50s sci-fi bugfest to 70s Dracula rip-offs, there’ll be a triple feature performed live (and badly) each night.

Rub shoulders with the cast before and after the show as they portray some of the greatest hams in the business – if you’re lucky, you might leave with a signed headshot or a bit part in the film itself!

Ticket price includes a goodies bag for audience participation.

B MOVIES LIVE promises to be a raucous satire of the last century of cinematic slop – a fun night out where anything can happen!

The 2016 production B Movies Live Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster had a sold-out run in the Anywhere Festival and was later toured to Melbourne and Ipswich.

Limited capacity – prebookings recommended at www.kristianfletcher.com

B MOVIES LIVE dubs their production “the worst show on Earth” – so how could you resist checking it out?

Anywhere Festival sees local performance groups presenting shows in nooks and crannies around town.

B MOVIES LIVE
Heya Bar, 351 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley
Bug Movies – Sun 12 May 7.30pm
Dinosaur Movies – Sun 19 May 7.30pm
Vampire Movies – Sun 26 May 7.30pm
Tickets $25.00 per person (18+ event with licensed bar)
BOOKINGS www.kristianfletcher.com

The story: Hedda Gabler is railing against her life. She didn’t marry drug slinger George Tesman so she could play housewife in a monstrous Gold Coast mansion with white leather couches, blingy chandeliers and endless rounds of Aperol Spritz. She wants something much more and now her old flame, Ejlert Løvborg, is out of prison and off the junk. Is he about to slice off a piece of George’s empire? Maybe Hedda can pull some strings to work this to her advantage.

The story is brought to life by a collective of Australia’s great stage and screen talent – Danielle Cormack needs little introduction after owning powerful female characters in Wentworth and Rake; Jimi Bani returns to Queensland Theatre fresh from the critically acclaimed My Life is Jimi national tour; the Helpmann-nominated stage powerhouse Jason Klarwein was last applauded in Twelfth Night; Joss McWilliam brings over 30 years of experience in standout roles; NIDA graduate and leading actor Bridie Carter (McLeod’s Daughters) makes her debut with Queensland Theatre, while multi-award nominated Helen O’Leary (Packed to the Rafters, The Strip) also debuts with Queensland Theatre. Completing the casting coup is nationally celebrated actor-director, and Queensland Theatre audience favourite, Andrea Moor.

London-based playwright Melissa Bubnic is returning to Australia for the opening and said her adaption ofHedda had been two years in development with Queensland Theatre. She explains the reason for making the George Tesman character a drug slinger, “I didn’t feel that academics arguing over the meaning of life and losing a manuscript felt inherently dramatic to me for today’s audience. Drugs, violence, death – all of that felt immediately higher stakes. This is a world where if you make a dud move, the consequences can be catastrophic. And Hedda is completely unapologetically self-serving. She’s after what she wants and everyone else is collateral. She doesn’t have the ennui, restlessness, longing for beauty of the original Hedda. My Hedda is a woman on a mission,” said Bubnic.

Director Paige Rattray has directed two of Queensland Theatre’s most powerful stage productions in Black is the New White and Scenes from a Marriage, and said Ibsen was a radical thinker in his time and Melissa Bubnic’s reimagining equally as radical for now. “We were interested in taking one of the ‘great’ female roles and tipping the idea of the tragic female lead on its head. Our Hedda isn’t a bored housewife. She’s a woman with a huge amount of agency who wants to rebuild the family name and be autonomous, and she will do anything to make that happen. She’s bold and brutal and takes no prisoners. It’s set on the modern-day Gold Coast; the family business is drugs and property development. It’s a very high stakes world,” she said.

HEDDA – a re-imagining of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler by Melissa Bubnic, directed by Paige Rattray
10 November to 8 December
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
www.queenslandtheatre.com.au

Three productions, filmed in front of live audiences will feature in the first My Cinema Select Spring Season sharing the unique experience of a night at the theatre with independent cinema patrons.

“Today’s Cinemagoers want more than just a film they could view at home, they want a total cinema experience, something new, something different – perhaps something they have never experienced before.” Says Grant Dodwell, co-founder of Australian National Theatre Live. “We provide that experience, transporting you to a front row seat of a filmed live, on-stage theatre production featuring the best Australian playwrights, the best Australian production design and the best Australian performances all captured with the latest audio- visual digital technology. “

“Independent cinemas are focused on increasing audience access to more diverse films and filmed experiences including opera, ballet and theatre. Our recent ACCC authorisation allows us to work more closely with partners like ANTLive to deliver this diversity.” says ICA, CEO Adrianne Pecotic

“The iconic Australian theatre productions featured in the Spring Season are rarely offered in regional Australia and are usually sold out in the capital cities. We are delighted to be working with ANTLive and offering a fantastic prize with the Sydney Theatre Company so our audiences don’t miss out and can be the first to experience Australian theatre on the big screen at 23 participating locations.“
The My Cinema Select 2018 Spring Season features 3 very different plays screening from September to November. They all tell distinctly Australian stories, as identifiable as Red Dog, Last Cab to Darwin and any other great Australian story.

THE DAPTO CHASER:
“A whippet smart play, a family saga set in the sub culture of dog racing” – Australian Stage

For the Sinclair family, the cut-throat world of greyhound racing is a religion, and their beloved dog, Boy Named Sue, is more than a greyhound; he’s their heart and soul on four legs. With the crucial Winnebago Classic on the horizon, Cess Sinclair has one shot at reversing his family’s fortunes for good. Against all the odds, he’s betting on a miracle.

STC WHARF REVUE:
“A sharp, incisive satire and deliriously cheap gags” – The Daily Review

Over 15 years and 21 shows, they’ve mercilessly mocked a parade of past and present indignitaries – a who’s who of 21st century embarrassments, from the politicians to the celebrities – all skewered on the stake of seriously side-splitting satirical silliness and musical mayhem. It’s the usual suspects, Howard Tampa’s with refugees, Rudd give pennies from Kevin, Gillard refuse to be lectured by “that man”, “that man” scraped the
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carbon tax, stopped the boats and – um – got the budget back into surplus… But no one has been able to outplay, outwit or outlast The Wharf Revue.

AWAY:
An epic tale of suburbia replaced with the dark spectacle of a tempest.

It is summer, 1967, and three families head for the coast to get away, to move on, to change. Set against the backdrop of an Australia recovering from the Vietnam War, and wrestling with social upheaval, this production, one of Australia’s greatest classics, pits the internal conflict of family life against the struggle of a country shaping its future. Matthew Lutton’s production of Away unleashes the full theatricality of the pressures of family secrets that eventually swell and gather into a storm.

The season also offers patrons the chance to win a trip to a Sydney Theatre Company 2019 production with 2 night’s accommodation and dinner for two valued up to $4,600:
• Return economy direct flights to Sydney
• Return airport/hotel transfers and Sydney ground transport [to maximum value of $300] • 2 nights twin shared four-star hotel accommodation including breakfast in central Sydney
• 2 tickets to a STC play of your choice in the 2019 Season [subject to availability] • Dinner for two to the value of $350

There is also a Minor Prize of a STC Wharf Revue Blu-ray and STC Wharf Revue Cinema Poster valued at $35.00 to be given away at each participating My Cinema location.

Patrons enter by purchasing a ticket to see ANTLive: THE DAPTO CHASER from 1 September, and/or STC WHARF REVUE in September or October and/or AWAY from 15 November 2018 at participating My Cinema locations and filling in an online entry form.

The competition opens 31 August 2018 and closes 30 November 2018. The promotion terms and conditions, participating cinemas and permit numbers are detailed on www.mycinema.com.au.

“At ANT Live we are passionate about creating more places for theatre – overcoming the barriers of location, affordability and accessibility so that anyone can enjoy this modern yet ancient art form. We thank ICA and their My Cinema platform for this opportunity.” Said Dodwell.

www.antlive.com.au

ANTL Season 2017 63sec from ACT2 Distribution on Vimeo.

This year WTF 2016 is welcoming works from nine countries to Brisbane – its theatre – and will challenge the way you thinka bout, see and experience the world.

New this year is Club WTF – a chance to stick around and grab a drink while you enjoy a series of free music from across the globe. So step onboard – eat, drink, discuss, debate and most importantly, share your poinions and stories with our fellow travellers.

WTF 2016
Thursday 18 – Saturday 27 February 2016
Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

Velvet completely redefines cabaret as a disco inferno that shocks, surprises and scintillates at every turn. This is an electrifying trip to a world of glamour and abandon, all in the company of vocal, dance and acrobatic stars. It’s sharp, sexy, raucous, and just a little sadomasochistic.

Featuring the legendary diva Marcia Hines, singer/songwriter Brendan Maclean, mixmaster with rhythmic brilliance Joey Accaria, hoola-boy extraordinaire Craig Reid, New Orleans burlesque queen Perle Noire, along with the sizzling aerial acrobatics of Stephen Williams and directed by Craig Ilott (Smoke & Mirrors).

Velvet is a fantastic sensory overload – funky, fresh, fun and sexy.

Do you love the nightlife?

“..a disco inferno shocks, surprises and scintillates at every turn.” *****(The Adelaide Advertiser)

“A great cast of performers generate an exhilarating atmosphere which pays homage to the disco age; it’s glamorous and it’s racy, the singers walk the line of innocence and hedonism and the acrobatics are something to be seen.” (The AU Review)

Velvet
16 – 26 September 2015
Brisbane Powerhouse – Powerhouse Theatre
www.brisbanefestival.com.au