
It is clearly an extraordinary work, performed by outstanding talent and composed with great thought and precision, but it is less of a shared experience between audience and performers, and more a polarising exercise in insular boundary-pushing.

Mr Stink is the delightful tale of friendship between an odorous vagabond and Chloe, a gifted young writer who is suffering from the angst of school bullies and a mother who just doesn’t understand.

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.

It is dynamic, epic in scale and utterly fearless, both joyously painful and terribly uplifting.

Eighth Blackbird send you to musical seventh heaven with their Musica Viva set which includes the world premiere performance of home grown composer Holly Harrison.

The Mischief Theatre seems set to break the link between ‘farce’ and ‘descend’; their comedy The Play That Goes Wrong elevates the genre to a new era of cool.

Michael Gow’s modern Australian classic Away is a play in which the deeply funny and the unsettlingly tragic go hand in hand.