Q150 arts projects
Rock Show
Presented by QPAC.
Venue: Playhouse, QPAC
Dates: 25-28 November at 7.30pm; 28 November at 4pm (additional matinee)
Tickets: $32-$43
A ground-breaking collaboration between one of Australia's most exciting creative talents, Gavin Webber and international rock-electronic band Regurgitator. Rock Show is an assault on the senses as dance, theatre and a rock concert merge into a catharsis of explosive movement, thrashing guitars and keyboards.
Rock Show will preview at the beautiful Empire Theatre, Toowoomba on 18 November, then open at Playhouse, QPAC Brisbane from 25 to 28 November.
Regurgitator
Regurgitator emerged from Brisbane's thriving independent music scenes in 1994. In the past 15 years they have toured all over Australia, New Zealand, Japan, UK, Europe, USA, Hong Kong and more recently China, Laos and Vietnam. Never compromising or shying away from the unusual, the untried, or any genre that infects their creative sensibility, Regurgitator find themselves extending the vitality of their live performances to new and exciting levels.
Gavin Webber
Gavin Webber worked with Meryl Tankard's Australian Dance Theatre from 1993 to 1998, then moved to Brussels and worked with Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez for three years. From 2005 to 2009 he was Artistic Director of Dancenorth and created Nightcafe, gravity feed, underneath, Underground, roadkill and Remember Me. He has toured extensively in Australia, Asia and Europe.
The School of Arts
Presented by Queensland Theatre Company and QPAC.
Playhouse QPAC, 13 July-1 August
Blackwater Civic Centre, 4 August
Rockhampton Pilbeam Theatre, 6 August
Biloela Cultural Centre, 8 August
Mundubbera Shire Hall, 11 August
Chinchilla Cultural Centre, 13 August
Warwick Town Hall, 15 August
A fond remembrance, The School of Arts is a story of small-town country life and the unintentional chaos caused by a motley band of travelling players. As the 1967 referendum to include Australia's Indigenous population in the national census is about to take place, a touring theatre troupe is preparing to perform Hamlet at the local School of Arts.
But when troupe leader Byron Savage decides to spice up the performance with a loaded gun and is wounded in the process, he sparks a chain of events that turns the evening into a maelstrom of burlesque and vaudeville.
Bille Brown's wonderfully comic new play is a tribute to an extraordinary time in Queensland's cultural life that inspired many of our State's leading artists, including the playwright himself.
Storylines - Q150 digital stories
Presented by State Library of Queensland.
Storylines - Q150 digital stories celebrates Queensland’s distinctive identity by documenting our people, places and memories during the State’s sesquicentennial year. In partnership with Q150, more than 70 new digital stories are being created as part of the project. The Storylines collection also features digital stories made by community groups and individuals in receipt of Q150 funding. View the Storylines - Q150 digital stories.
Dirty Apple
Presented by Opera Queensland.
Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane
Seven performances only
18-25 July
"I heard a rumour..."
Ben and his friends learn one of life' hardest lessons when they set out to discredit their teacher on the internet. Revenge isn't so sweet as the rumour mill works overtime, and this tight group of friends turn on each other as they struggle to deal with the fallout. Who is to blame for this tragedy and who will 'fess up?
A talented cast of 18 young singers will bring to life this moving piece of musical theatre about choice and consequence.
Hidden Republic
Queensland Music Festival 2009 will launch spectacularly into life with the largest concert ever to be performed on Thursday Island - Hidden Republic. Since the stunning national response to murundak in 2006, The Black Arm Band is increasingly sought after on the international stage. Uplifting and confronting, its music renders an intimate portrait of contemporary Indigenous life.
Twenty-five of Australia's leading singers, songwriters, musicians and performers will be backed by 33 members of the Queensland Youth Symphony to create an exhilarating concert in the heart of the Torres Strait.
This free landmark event will be webcast live to Reddacliff Place. The Queensland Government is proud to support Hidden Republicas part of the Q150 celebrations.
Queensland Stories
by Bungabura Productions
Bungabura Productions will present a range of activities in Brisbane to celebrate the works and contribution of Leah Purcell, an accomplished Indigenous film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright, originally from Murgon, Queensland.
Activities include
- Screening of the short film Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun, directed by Leah Purcell and written by Angelina Hurley as part of the Q150 Film Festival.
- A public reading by director, Leah Purcell, of her new theatre project Seven Deadly Gins, written by Yvette Walker.
- A public performance of a work by the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts graduating students for 2009, directed and co-written by Leah.
Last reviewed 31 August 2009
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