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29/06/2010 - The Clean House : Media Release
Award Winning Comedy Cleans Up
What happens when a doctor falls in love with their patient? When a wife befriends her husband’s new love? Or when a cleaner is allergic to housecleaning? Find the answers in Sarah Ruhl’s multi-award winning comedy The Clean House, starring TV’s Brooke Satchwell and Carol Burns, Vivienne Garrett, Sarah McNeill and Hugh Parker from 28 June in Brisbane.
25/06/2010 - The 7 Stages of Grieving on Stage in Brisbane
Queensland Theatre Company proudly announces its Education Production of
The 7 Stages of Grieving – a landmark play by new Artistic Director Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman. The State Theatre Company of South Australia production stars Lisa Flanagan and opens at Bille Brown Studio from 27 July.
24/06/2010 - New Artistic Director Announced
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh today announced Wesley Enoch as the new Artistic Director for the Queensland Theatre Company “Wesley has a long history of working in theatre, both as a director and a writer, starting his career in his home state of Queensland and then moving interstate to work across Australia,” Ms Bligh said.
“Over the past decade he has worked with the majority of Australia’s state theatre companies, major arts centres and festivals and in 2006 directed the Indigenous section of the Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
21/06/2010 - Black Lung Breathes Life into Brisbane Theatre
What do you get when you have one room, eight local artists, five dilapidated couches and The Black Lung Theatre Company? A recipe for a challenging new play, supported by Queensland Theatre Company’s creative development program.
21/06/2010 - Hurry Up and Wait! : Media Release
Queensland Theatre Company and DeBASE Productions present Hurry Up and Wait!, a new show for families premiering at the Noosa Longweekend Festival before it tours to over 15, 000 children across Queensland.
21/06/2010 - The 7 Stages of Grieving : Media Release
Queensland Theatre Company presents State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Education Production of The 7 Stages of Grieving - a landmark play written by leading Australian theatre artists Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman. Starring Lisa Flanagan, the show runs from 27 July at the Bille Brown Studio.
21/06/2010 - Fat Pig : Media Release
Neil LaBute’s award-winning comedy Fat Pig takes a comical and politically incorrect look at our obsession with appearance when it opens at Bille Brown Studio from 31 May. When Tom falls in love with plus-sized Helen he is ecstatic, yet there’s no way he can tell his fat-phobic colleagues about their romance…
21/06/2010 - Hurry Up and Wait!
Queensland Theatre Company and DeBASE Productions present Hurry Up and Wait!, a new show for families premiering at the Noosa Longweekend Festival before it tours to over 15, 000 children across Queensland.
02/06/2010 - The Works: 6 Actors, 2 Plays, 2 Nights Only
Ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of a new play? Check out The Works – Queensland Theatre Company’s annual program of play readings. See professional readings of Angela Betzien’s The Dark Room or Matthew Ryan’s Bull on July 2 and 3 at Bille Brown Studio.
26/05/2010 - Award Winning Comedy Cleans Up
What happens when a doctor falls in love with their patient? When a wife befriends her husband’s new love? Or when a cleaner is allergic to housecleaning? Find the answers in Sarah Ruhl’s multi-award winning comedy The Clean House, starring TV’s Brooke Satchwell from 28 June in Brisbane.
19/05/2010 - Young Playwrights Wanted
Are you a budding playwright aged 15 – 30 living in Queensland? Then start writing and get in your entry to the Young Playwright’s Program held annually by Queensland Theatre Company. Entries close 25 June 2010 and winners get to see their words onstage at the Brisbane Writers Festival in September.
10/05/2010 - Plus Size Laughs in Fat Pig
Neil LaBute’s award-winning comedy Fat Pig takes a comical and politically incorrect look at our obsession with appearance when it opens at Bille Brown Studio from 31 May. When Tom falls in love with plus-sized Helen he is ecstatic, yet there’s no way he can tell his fat-phobic colleagues about their romance…
06/04/2010 - Theatrical Event of the Year Hits Brisbane
A national tour of Bell Shakespeare’s 20th anniversary production of King Lear, billed as the biggest event in Australian theatre in 2010, will launch a three week Brisbane season at QPAC from 5 May.
Brisbane audiences shouldn’t miss this opportunity to see John Bell, a national living treasure and consummate performer, take on this epic role.
25/03/2010 - Queensland Theatre Company 2009 Annual Report Released
Queensland Theatre Company's 2009 Annual report was tabled in Parliament this morning by The Hon. Anna Bligh. Find out more about our Youth & Education program, Writing Program, Emerging Artists and other industry initiatives along with our financial results.
24/03/2010 - Brisbane's Waiting for Godot
In a world of cyber-bulling, Facebook and consumerism can the constantly-stimulated Gen Y handle a show about… waiting? Queensland Theatre Company presents an Education Performance of Waiting for Godot – Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s iconic play about life, the universe and patience.
01/03/2010 - Sun Surf and Satire in the latest David Williamson
Noosa’s playground for the rich and retired becomes a comic battleground in David Williamson’s Let the Sunshine. With a cast that includes Paul Ashcroft, Robert Coleby, Rachel Gordon, Andrea Moor, Jacki Weaver and Gold Logie-winner John Wood, Let the Sunshine is Williamson’s latest romantic satire that reflects on issues facing a modern Romeo and Juliet.
25/02/2010 - Theatre Careers Take Flight
How do you become a professional theatre director, actor or lighting designer? Queensland Theatre Company is showing eight up-and-coming Queensland artists how, in their 2010 Emerging Artist Program supported by Brisbane Airport Corporation.
24/02/2010 - Michael Gow to Leave Queensland Theatre Company
Michael Gow, Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company, will be leaving the Company to pursue freelance writing and directing.
In his 11th year as Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company, Michael has advised the Board that he has declined a further contract following the expiry of his current contract, due in August 2010.
“Being the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company for eleven years has been incredible. There have been wonderful experiences creating works, touring shows, developing young artists and giving artists acknowledged nationally opportunities to work with the Company”, said Michael Gow.
12/02/2010 - Cult Theatrical Hit in Brisbane
Queensland Theatre Company presents Will Eno’s award-winning solo show Thom Pain (based on nothing) an underground hit in New York, London and Edinburgh. Starring Jason Klarwein as the charismatic and disturbed Thom Pain, Brisbane audiences are set to be both charmed and shocked by his acerbic wit and vulnerability.
09/02/2010 - Staged Lives: Michael Gow, Will Eno and David Williamson in conversation
Great Playwrights Front Public
Hot New York playwright Will Eno joins Australia’s most prominent playwrights David Williamson and Michael Gow in Staged Lives: a conversation on theatre, writing and the line between life and fiction on March 9 at State Library of Queensland.
22/01/2010 - Cast change for The Little Dog Laughed
Queensland Theatre Company advises theatre-goers that Nathaniel Dean has withdrawn from The Little Dog Laughed due to a neck injury sustained during rehearsals. The role of Mitchell will now be played by Tom O’Sullivan, familiar to audiences from his work in Underbelly III.
07/01/2010 - Agent Forces Hollywood Star Into The Closet
Queensland Theatre Company presents The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane - a sizzling Hollywood satire about sex, lies and the inconvenience of true love. Starring Caroline Kennison, Nick Cook, Melanie Zanetti and TV's Nathaniel Dean, The Little Dog Laughed is witty, fast-paced and has a story worthy of today's celebrity gossip magazines.
23/11/2009 - Queensland Premier's Drama Award - Call for Entries
The Queensland Premier's Drama Award 2010-11 has kicked off with the Premier and Minister for the Arts Anna Bligh calling for entries. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2010 with the winning entry announced by the end of 2010.
20/10/2009 - 2010 Season Launch Video
