Article written by Breanna Smith.
It’s that time of the month again. What time of month, I hear you say? Well, the start of the month of course, and with a new month comes new plays to see. So, here are seven shows to see this month in Brisbane.
Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra
For those looking for something a bit more upper class but still in the reasonable price range, try Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert. Performed by the Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra, this is a wonderful performance featuring pop music you love performed in a different style from what you might normally hear, alongside songs you also hear such as popular contemporary and classical tunes performed by the large-scale symphonies. For a twist on songs heard daily on the radio, try this.
Redcliffe Cultural Centre, Downs Street Redcliffe
5 August, 2018
Adult: $22.00 Children under 12: $15.00 Family (2A + 2ch or 1A + 3ch): $65.00
Kitty Flanagan - Smashing
What can be said about Kitty that hasn’t been said before? In her own words, the Kitty Flanagan Smashing is about “Love-songs, sex, algorithms, chimps, clowns and psychics, everything is getting ‘smashed’.” Make sure to leave the kids at home for this wild night of laughs and crazy stories.
Show is 15+
State Theatre
4 August, 2018
Adult: $54.90
Concession: $49.90
Child (15-17 years old): $49.90
Mother
A very different show from its QPAC counterpart on this list, Mother is a play telling the story of “Christie, a homeless woman in a world detached, unforgiving and destructive. It gives voice to the fallen and dispossessed, to those who exist at the edge of safety, at the point of being undone", and is a wonderful performance by Noni Hazlehurst, who recently played Elizabeth Bligh on A Place to Call Home, but is probably most well-known from her years of hosting Play School. This play writing by Daniel Keene, the Aussie play writer, is a powerful story performed strongly by Noni in a stunning sole performance, leaving crowds moved and touch across the nations.
QPAC
7 to 18 August, 2018
Adult: $59
Concession: $49
West End to Broadway – Volume 6 – The Tony’s
A fun night of music sure to delight, West End to Broadway: The Tony’s is the sixth in the Spring Hill Reservoir series, with this one performing songs from musical that has won Best Musical of the Year at The Tony Awards since its (The Tony’s) creation in 1947. The show features solo, duet and ensemble renditions of show stoppers the lovers of musicals are sure to love. A great show for someone who is looking for a show with a bit of everything, so long as they’re a musical lover.
The Spring Hill Reservoir, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane
10 to 19 August, 2018
It’s Only a Play
How to describe this play? Well, simply put it, is a set on the Opening Night of “The Golden Egg” on Broadway and a fancy party is taking place at the producer’s. With this play, we see all the drama taking place in a bedroom upstairs above the party, where a group of performance have hidden away to be the first to hear the review. Is it funny? Full of laughs? Well, you’ll have to see it yourselves and make your own review.
Z-PAC (Zephyr Street Performance Arts Community Theatre)
27 July to 11 August, 2018
Adult: $25
School and University Student: $15
The Kings of Country Rock Tour
If you’re looking for something different from Symphony Orchestra, you could always try some country. As a fan of country music, having grown up on it and worked at a country music radio station, I can say that this looks like fun. This two-hour concert is a show full of country rock music from the 70’s, with a heavy focus of two of the biggest bands, The Eagles and Creedence Clearwater Revival. So, get those big wheels turning and head down to The Kings of Country Rock Tour at the Redcliffe Cultural Centre.
Redcliffe Cultural Centre - Downs Street, Redcliffe
31 August, 2018
All tickets: $47.50
Jasper Jones
Jasper Jones, a book I plan to read, has been crafted into a wonder play performance by Queensland Theatre. Set in 1965, it tells the story of Charlie Bucktin, a book lover who lives in a tiny town where nothing happens, until one day, Jasper Jones, a local aboriginal boy, discovers a gruesome crime out by the dam and needs the help of the smartest kid in town, leading to a race to solve the case and clear Jasper’s name. Seen as a mix of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and classic movie Stand by Me, Jasper Jones is a stunning and beautiful story turned into a stage performance. It's a show I plan to see and hope you do, too.
QPAC
Tickets range from $41 to $88 depending on dates and age.
28 July to 18 August, 2018
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