Ibsen’s theatre revolution changed theatre to something that was art and not just entertainment. QTC’s production of this Ibsen classic, was not even entertaining.
C!RCA’s The Space Between explores not just the apparent physical bodies of the performers, but the nothingness and everythingness of what exists in the space between the performers, each other and the theatre-in-the-round audience.
A play that touches on issues of prejudice, deceit and ignorance, it does so with flair, but do not the title fool you. This is not a song-and-dance musical style show.
It seems no-one loves a conspiracy more than Errol Bray. His long Australian theatrical career has evidently led him to a place of cheerful cynicism about the state of our world.
Absence(s) is a work that moves between worlds – physically, spatially and symbolically. We are taken, group by group, from the street outside the theatre to another space.
Private Fears in Public Places is a comic tale of the overlapping lives of six people living in one city. Written by Alan Ayckbourn and directed by Michael Gow, the play opens the Queensland Theatre Company's 2007 season, leaving audiences sated but not enthralled by the upcoming theatrical year.