Reviews

Trent Dalton’s Love Stories was originally commissioned and produced by the Brisbane Festival and QPAC for the Brisbane Festival of 2024. It is a unique adaption of a novel to a play in that it also features immersive camera work, back projection and dance. This conception adapted from the book by Tim McGarry, allows to audience to get up close and personal with the production.

The Brisbane based Circa contemporary circus company has been touring the world for over 20 years and this collaboration, originally staged at QPAC, marks its first foray into a fully staged baroque opera. 

Dido and Aeneas was one of the hits of 18th century English composer Henry Purcell. The Director Yaron Lifschitz has transformed the work into a 70-minute adaptation that lends itself more to the tradition of ballet than opera.

Gripping and intense No Love Songs is a piece of theatre which gives a powerful insight into the joyous highs and desperate lows of a new relationship.

The music comprising tender ballads and rock anthems is vibrant, with the story real and raw.

I went into the show a little blind about its trajectory and when it dived into the subject of post-natal depression, I was left feeling like I was standing on a cliff, because my plus one had gone through a similar experience.

On mattresses in squats three young people struggle and scheme to get their next fix – their illusions of love soon proving just part of the game.

Patricia Cornelius’ double award-winning play from 20 years ago returns as part of the Old Fitz’ Late Night program, with her profile of damaged, already cynical victims at the bottom of the heap whose back stories, beyond the grimy present, Cornelius doesn’t even both to flesh out.