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Elise. Writer & caffeine-based life form. Exploring my city and discovering its best kept secrets. Join me on my adventures!

02/11/2026

After a decade in the crypt, Shake & Stir Theatre Co brings literature’s most famous vampire back to QPAC, reuniting the original creative team for this limited season in the company’s 20th year.

Dracula delivers all the scale and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Shake & Stir adaptation: a high-drama retelling that hits the central plot points, garnished with technical showmanship and a contemporary sense of humour.

Read my full review via Limelight. Playing until 8 November🦇🩸

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22/09/2026

Luke Murphy’s latest work is a gripping dance theatre piece about land, violence, and ownership, developed by the same creative team that delivered 2024 Brisbane Festival favourite Volcano at BRISBANE POWERHOUSE.

Set in rural Ireland in the mid-2000s and based on a 1965 play, Scorched Earth is a thrilling and thoughtful work, expanding and inverting genre tropes to explore ideas of place, power, and possession through the lens of Irish identity.

Read my full review via Limelight.

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21/09/2026

In a seaside town, two ideologically opposed newspapers fight for the soul of one man. Written over a century ago, Herink Ibsen's masterpiece prophesies a world of clashing echo chambers manipulated by the powers of new media.

Rosmersholm comes to life in the neo-gothic Albert Street Uniting Church, scored by the pipe organ; an epic battle between sacred tradition and secular freedom promises to grant new eyes for the modern condition.

Presented by SEERCRAFT from 16 September - 10 October.

Image credit: Benjamin Prindable Photography Rosmersholm 16 September – 10 October 2026 Albert Street Uniting Church opposite King George Square, Brisbane City Public factions. Private fract…

15/09/2026

Salad Days Collective produced the Queensland premiere season of Miriam Battye’s Scenes With Girls at PIP Theatre in 2024, their first year of works, and now bring it to Queensland Theatre Company as part of its DOOR 3 program and Brisbane Festival.

Delivered with authentic emotion and a deep sense of recognition, Scenes With Girls maps the shifting tectonic plates of formative female friendships with care and complexity. Playing until 19 September 💖

Read my full review online via Limelight.

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12/09/2026

In the old CFA hall on the outskirts of town, a group of locals come together to sing and connect. Aseni, Barbara, Mack, Savannah and Totty have splintered from their original choir on a matter of principle and are intent on forging their own path. They have a new name, a space to rehearse, and a public debut booked. All they need now is to right the wrongs of the past...and find a song that pairs perfectly with the local winery’s Sangiovese.

The Heartbreak Choir is playing at PIP Theatre until 19 September.

The Heartbreak Choir 9 – 19 September 2026 PIP Theatre, Milton In the old CFA hall on the outskirts of town, a small group of locals come together to sing, and to connect. Aseni, Barbara, Mac…

11/09/2026

Hannah arrives in Seoul to get to know her birth mother, but Umma is busy working every day in her convenience store. Under the fluorescent lights, the two women search for connection across generational and cultural divides.

Michelle Lim Davidson’s funny and heartfelt playwriting debut is a story of inter-country adoption, imperfect motherhood, the search for home, and how we try to understand ourselves by understanding where we come from.

Read my full review via Limelight. Koreaboo is playing at La Boite Theatre until 19 September as part of Brisbane Festival.

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10/09/2026

A standing ovation in the QPAC Playhouse greeted the world premiere of Suzie Miller’s Strong is the New Pretty, a snappy 80-minute origin story of the AFLW presented as part of Brisbane Festival.

Miller’s heroic version of events distils years of training and campaigning into a neatly packaged overview of the AFLW’s origins, tethered by the infectious, inspiring energy of its early stars and supporters.

Read my full review online 🏈 Strong is the New Pretty plays until 19 September.

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09/09/2026

Salad Days Collective brings Scenes With Girls back for a Brisbane Festival season filled with guts, chaos, laughter and heartbreak.

Best friends and housemates Tosh and Lou have rejected the modern pressures of romance and dating, believing that having each other is enough. But when the outside world begins to creep in, their all-consuming bond is quietly put to the test.

Playing 4 - 19 September at Queensland Theatre Company as part of their DOOR 3 program.

Scenes with Girls 4 – 19 September 2026 Diane Cilento Studio After a sold-out 2024 season that sparked rave reviews (and prompted at least one audience member to break up with her boyfriend), Mati…

19/08/2026

An accomplished cast brings Patricia Cornelius’ play about dementia, dying and doomed explorers to life at Queensland Theatre Company, but textual density obscures emotional depth.

Finely honed performances and a stirring score squeeze bursts of deep emotion from this dense work about looking toward, or looking forward to, the end of our lives.

Read my full review via Limelight. Do Not Go Gentle is playing until 30 August.

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14/08/2026

Second Coming, co-produced by Playlab Theatre and La Boite Theatre, is a contemplation of humanity’s near future, but so thematically crowded that it loses touch with the play’s human heart. This world premiere about a Mars mission in 2065 is weighed down by its own admirable ambition and the result, despite well-crafted design and strong actor performances, is ultimately a directionless scream into the void of space.

Read my full review via Limelight. Second Coming is playing until 22 August.

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