Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) launched their 2013 Creative Development Series last week announcing the involvement of some of Queensland’s shining stars of the stage. Celebrated actress Christen O’Leary (End of the Rainbow) will join audience favourite Hugh Parker and Matilda-Award-winners Eugene Gilfedder, Melanie Zanetti and Kathryn Marquet, and O’Leary’s End of…
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Aussie Theatre’s Dione Joseph recently spoke with Stradbroke Island man Wesley Enoch — Artistic Director of Kungkarangkalpa: Seven Sisters Songline which was performed by Central Desert dancers early this month as part of Canberra’s Centenary celebrations. Wesley Enoch is a man who loves to work hard. And he thrives upon…
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Destined to become a signature event on the Queensland culture calendar, Clancestry (26 February to 3 March) is a brand new festival celebrating the art and culture of First Nation peoples from around the globe. Curated by Rhoda Roberts (renowned creative director of the Awakening segment of the Sydney Olympic Games…
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It was just fifteen minutes before the scheduled performance time and the doors were still closed. The time-keepers in the gathered crowd obsessively checked yet-to-be-turned-off phones, nervous that an important convention of theatre admittance had been well and truly broken and suddenly there was a hubbub at door two of…
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After a sell-out 2011 season of Stolen, by Jane Harrison, the Aboriginal Centre for Performance Art (ACPA) returns to the stage this year under the guidance of renowned playwright, director and Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company, Wesley Enoch to present Up the Ladder, by Roger Bennett. Showing at the…
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As the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) launched it’s anticipated 2013 season to a full QPAC Playhouse, social media sites unveiled each slated production blow by blow teasing their online audience with hints and puzzles before the big reveal. The event took on the air of an awards ceremony with Facebookers…
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Written by Alana Valentine and directed by Wesley Enoch, Head Full of Love is a story of hats, healing and coping strategies. Nessa (Colette Mann) has run from her suburban life to Alice Springs. Completely alone and out of her depth, she meets Tilly (Roxanne McDonald) and an unlikely friendship…
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Pop culture meets the Queen. Dario Fo’s profound play Elizabeth, almost by chance a woman, presented by the Queensland Theatre Company is a unique fusion of a potty-mouthed Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespearean conspiracies, Commedia dell’Arte, polictical satire and pop culture. Set inside the Queen’s budoir in the last twelve maddening days…
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Never was a story of more woe? Well, not so for the latest production of history’s most beloved young lovers. The infamous tale of Juliet and her Romeo plays once more in Queensland Theatre Company’s latest production of Romeo and Juliet. The star-crossed Veronese Teens play at Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s…
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Queensland Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh has announced Wesley Enoch as the new Artistic Director for the Queensland Theatre Company. Enoch is one of Australia’s busiest theatre directors. Originally from Stradbroke Island, he has worked with all of Australia’s major theatre companies including Queensland Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company,…
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