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Home>What's On>Theatre Season 2010
| Toy Symphony | | | Tuesday 2 March at 8pm & Wednesday 3 March at 8pm
Queensland Theatre Company's very own artistic director and award-winning playwright Michael Gow gives us a rare insight into the heart and mind of the artistic and the inescapable power of memory. Gifted playwright Roland Henning is trying to convince his sceptical therapist Nina that he doesn't have writer's block, it's just that, well, he can't write anymore.
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| Cosi | | | Thursday 25 March at 8pm & Friday 26 March at 8pm
Lewis, a young director and a university drop-out, takes a job in a mental asylum working with patients who are interested in the dramatic arts. He thinks his work will involve staging a small variety show with the group, until long-term patient Roy hijacks the show and insists that the production be nothing less than a grand staging of Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte.
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| Shakespeare's R & J | | | Wednesday 19 May at 8pm & Thursday 20 May at 8pm
Shakespeare's R & J is an innovative, sexy new interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. In the repressive atmosphere of a Catholic boy's boarding school, four young students decide to stage Romeo and Juliet for their own enjoyment. At first its just for laughs, but as the young men discover the themes of secret and forbidden love, they gradually immerse themselves in the role.
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| The Age I'm In | | | Friday 28 May at 8pm & Saturday 29 May at 8pm
Woven together and brought to life by Force Majeure's distinctive dance-theatre language, a diverse selection of Australians aged between fourteen and eighty offer astonishingly personal responses to a range of emotive issues, creating an intimate and warm-hearted snapshot of the ageing process. It skillfully combines audio visual technology, real-life interviews and a distinctive physical language to take a fresh and humerous look at generational cliches, family interactions and the complexity of human relationships.
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| Halpern & Johnson | | | Thursday 24 June at 8pm & Friday 25 June at 8pm
Garry McDonald and Henri Szeps reunite for this award-winning drama about two very different men with one surprising thing in common. Joseph Halpern is mourning the loss of his wife Flo and taking a few minutes alone by her graveside when he is approached by a stranger, introducing himself as Dennis Johnson. As the two men talk Johnson reveals an affection for Florence that is more than that for a dear, departed friend and in doing so uncovers more than just the secret of their relationship.
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| Lying Cheating Bastard | | | Wednesday 30 June at 8pm
Jimmy has no idea how it happened, but somehow he was born with a gift, a talent to play and read cards, dice, any game of chance, better than just about anyone in the world. Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, part demonstration of the finer arts of trickery, Lying Cheating Bastard is the extraordinary story of Jimmy's induction into the murky world of gangsters and grift.
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| Menopause the Musical | | | 6, 7, 8 & 9 July at 8pm & 10 July at 2pm & 8pm
Set in a department store, four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra meet by chance at a lingerie sale. They quickly bond and make fun of their woeful hot flashes, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges. A sisterhood is created between these diverse women as they realise that menopause is no longer the silent passage.
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| La Traviata | | | Saturday 17 July at 8pm
Money makes the world go round. This is the bleak truth behind Violetta Valery's life of champagne, silk dresses and extravagant parties. No matter how she feels inside, when the music plays and the admirer pays, she must perform. So when she finds herself falling in love, her very livelihood is threatened. Can the beautiful songbird escape her gilded cage? Can she leave her past behind?
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| Shorter + Sweeter | | | Wednesday 4 August at 8pm & Thursday 5 August at 8pm
Shorter & Sweeter showcases some of the very best works from recent festivals, written by Australia's hottest writers, presented by our finest directors and starring a cast of brilliant actors. The selection features the controversial, the rib-tickling, the absurd and the sexy in a unique ten-minute play formula that is bound to please every taste.
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| Twelfth Night | | | Tuesday 10 August at 7.30pm & Wednesday 11 August at 11am
Orsino is head over heels with Olivia, but she's too busy mourning her dead brother to notice. Meanwhile, her steward is trying to run a strict household while grappling with sexual frustration, and her boozy old uncle is chasing the maid and generally causing trouble. Into this mayhem enter the twins - one male, one female - equally lovable but a little too hard to tell apart.
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| A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg | | | Thursday 30 September at 8pm & Friday 1 October at 8pm
Brian (Bri) and Sheila are a young married couple. They care for their daughter, nicknamed 'Joe Egg', and are the model of bravery and courage in the face of adversity. Living by the rule that if you don't laugh you'll cry, it's fortunate that Bri is a natural born entertainer. But what lies beneath Bri's funny lounge room antics? We find out when two unwanted guests start to poke their noses where they don't belong.
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| Mathinna | | | Saturday 20 November at 2pm & 8pm
Inspired by a young girl's journey between two cultures, Mathinna traces the history of a young Aboriginal girl removed from her traditional life, adopted into Western Colonial society to be ultimately returned to the fragments of her original heritage.
Mathinna became the archetype of the 'stolen child' and in this brand new work Bangarra Dance Theatre recreates her powerful story of vulnerability and searching in an era of confusion and intolerance.
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