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| | | MARY POPPINS IS PURE MAGIC
Mary Poppins is pure magic. If you can find a way to afford it and you can still get the tickets, take the whole family. It is heartwarming, uplifting, life-lesson-learning stuff. It’s also lots of fun. With Musical Direction by Michael Tyack, new material by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, musical numbers we know and love by Sherman and Sherman and the original book by Julian Fellowes, based on stories by P.L. Travers...  | |
 | JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH IS A VISUAL FEAST
I can’t stand Pantomime. There. I said it. I think I said it last year too. I’m just not a fan of the genre. There’s a place for it. It employs people. It entertains loads of other people. It’s light, fun, mindless, colourful, musical and quite often cute. But it’s not for me. Let me tell you why children and (other) adults appear to enjoy pantomime. | |
| OBERON: Nothing like I had seen before
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. AMSND. Just how many times has it been performed in it’s 400+ years? How many interpretations, permutations and re-workings? This year alone I know of 4 in south-east Queensland. This version was subtitled as ‘An Australian Christmas Shakespeare Comedy Extravaganza’ and described as ‘a boutique theatre bon bon | |
| A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Terrific, fun physical comedy
Colourful, highly physical and mostly funny, the USQ Theatre Alumni’s inaugural production A Midsummer Night's Dream is bringing Roma Street Parklands to life for another week. My little family needed no encouragement to prepare a picnic and set up on the grass steps of the amphitheatre, a venue that begs greater use by Brisbane theatre companies. | |
| FRACTIONS: The sort of theatre that stops you in your tracks
This. This play. This playwright. This production. It’s QTC’s final for 2011. In Brisbane this year there has not been better theatre than QTC’s production of Marcel Dorney’s award-winning Fractions. It’s been the talk of the town since its first public reading four years ago, let alone since its inclusion in the finals of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Awards | |
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