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- Marika Bryant
How often do you have the opportunity to relive your childhood, with your own adult ‘child’ next to you?
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- Angel Huang
When was the last time you let yourself really dream? That was what Queensland Ballet invited audiences to do last night with an energetic and lively telling of Peter Pan at QPAC’s Playhouse.
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- Lauren Sherritt
Eugène Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros is currently being staged by heartBeast Theatre, the Brisbane company choosing a fittingly absurd play to perform for an increasingly absurd world.
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- Lauren Sherritt
An Octoroon is a production of contrasts. Bright white stage and pitch-dark blackouts. Raucous comedy and stark reality. Black face and white face. Loud rap music and uncomfortable silence. The rights afforded to characters of white skin, and the treatment of all others.
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- Kelli Rogers
Dead Puppet Society has teamed up with Laser Beak Man artist Tim Sharp to create a glorious piece of visual theatre that delights all audience members, regardless of age.
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- Eden Bryant
This performance is entertaining and delightful from the first instance of walking through the door, long before the music starts. From the food and rendezvous setting to the music and melodrama Orpheus is far from a tragic evening.
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- Eden Bryant
Wind, much like life, can be unpredictable, uncontrollable and powerfully beautiful. Per Te has captured this perfectly with their use of wind as it's main prop.
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- Nicholas Routley
It was an ingenious idea of the director, Stephen Barlow, and the conductor, Nicholas Cleobury, to combine in one program these two pieces, one by Debussy and the other by his contemporary Ravel.
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All in all, this is an evening of great fun and profound questioning, in which music and theatre constantly interweave and complement each other. Not to be missed!
In its scant 6 years of existence, Ensemble Q has carved out an identity as a chamber ensemble of the highest standard, fearlessly delving into unusual repertoire.
Initially the orchestra sounded great, if reserved, but fired and stoked the feels as the evening progressed and both parties fused.
There isn’t a baton, a trembling shaping arm or a stern pose in sight, at 55, he exudes boyish energy but, there’s no doubt he’s the captain.
The beautiful and terrifying images that serve as scenery allow us, the audience, to experience the various often contradictory levels on which the work operates at once, as magic, as myth.
Then Mime asks, What is the race which lives on the stage? And Wotan answers, On the stage live those consummate artists, the singers.
Wonderful. Quite wonderful.