In an arts landscape that so easily slips into an ‘art-for-arts sake’ mentality, shake & stir have ferociously identified and developed an audience for their work, quickly expanding as one of Queensland’s most highly valued artistic exports.

Single Asian Female plunks the audience in the middle of the lives of the women of the Wong family – and quite literally in the middle of their restaurant, The Golden Phoenix, on the Sunshine Coast.

shake & stir’s Dracula is a thrilling adventure that drags you in to its dark world and doesn’t let go until the final bolt of lightning strikes.

How To Keep An Alien is a mostly one-woman show, and Sonya Kelly, as the key performer is simply wonderful to watch on stage.

The Rabble have wrenched apart this classic text and created a new work that highlights the fractured psyche of Orlando, the malleability of gender and the precarious volatility of identity.

The most produced play in the world (outside of Shakespeare), Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House has been given new life for the 2014 Brisbane Festival in a new version by Lally Katz, directed by Steven Mitchell Wright.

Melchior, a suicidal young son whose family runs Klutz Books, crawls out the window each night and sits on the roof, planning his demise. One night he meets Hendrick, a neighbour, whose flyaway badminton equipment has brought her to this suicidal young man.

Benedict Hardie has both written and directed a brilliant laugh out loud production, that kept the audience guessing until it’s final moments.

Andrea Moor has directed a provocative and powerful production of a seriously smart play.

The show works because it taps into the very real and sincere longing we all have for connection with another human being, the incredibly difficult journey it is to find that connection, and just how far we'll go to do it.