Reviews

Michael Gow tells his stories via believable characters and tight dialogue, especially when the messages are just a little bit angry, just a little bit critical, just a little bit emotional. Through his young protagonist, Will Drummond, Gow uses the theatre to raise issues that affect us all – inequality, exploitation, illness, loss. And in true political theatre style, he uses real situations and vulnerable characters who reach past the stage to tell us that “the war might be endless, and it’s probably already lost but that’s not a reason to give up”.

Pretend to be normal and everything will get better. There would be few of us in the arts sector incapable of relating to that feeling. While Reagan Kelly is a fresh, Brisbane-based, laugh-a-minute comedy, that’s one of the deeper sentiments lying beneath the ample chuckles. Lewis Treston’s darkly clever script is packed with witty one-liners, ‘so funny because it’s true’ moments and surprises, the audience can barely catch their breath at times.

Perfect is the new show by the up and coming talented and eccentric comedienne Jacqueline Mifsud. A defiant and self-righteous zany personality, she is determined to make her audience laugh at her and with her while she bursts open her cathartic bubble of life as a single thirty-three year old woman.

Queensland Ballet started their 2019 season with Liam Scarlett’s marvellously erotic Dangerous Liaisons. Opening with a funeral and the widow being sexually comforted by her lover on the coffin, and featuring an explicit orgy of sexual games, this world premiere is probably the hottest and raunchiest show we’ll see in Brisbane this year.