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2017 Program Guide anywheretheatre.com Welcome to Anywhere Annastacia Palaszczuk Paul Osuch & Alex McTavish The Anywhere Theatre Festival is an innovative initiative that brings together artists and audiences in unexpected spaces. Anywhere Theatre Festival - affectionately known as ‘Anywhere Fest’ - is a festival of performance anywhere but a theatre and exhibitions anywhere but a gallery. Exactly what it says on the tin. Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Arts 2 With performances held anywhere but a theatre, and exhibitions showcased anywhere but a gallery, the festival disrupts the traditional ways we experience art. This pioneering approach provides a unique opportunity for audiences to enjoy art anywhere and everywhere. The Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, supports the festival, furthering our commitment to delivering diverse, rich and accessible arts experiences across the State. The festival is a Queensland success story. Established in 2011, the first event hosted 10 productions in 10 days in Brisbane. Six years later, it has grown to 131 productions across 95 locations, attracting an audience of almost 100 000 people. This year’s expanded statewide program will see even more Queenslanders enjoy this unique festival, which showcases emerging and established artists from across Queensland. The festival requires the support of many businesses and organisations to provide access, and to transform, the festival’s many sites and performance spaces, and I thank them for their significant contribution. Congratulations to the organisers and dedicated staff that contribute to our vibrant arts sector. I wish you every success for the Anywhere Theatre Festival 2017. Anywhere Theatre Festival Founders We believe you don’t need a theatre to present theatre and the last six years have proven the point, with more new works developed and presented to audiences in the three weeks of Anywhere Theatre Festival each year than in any custom built theatre over an entire year. This year Anywhere Theatre Festival has burst from the walls of Brisbane City and features performances in the Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Hervey Bay, Mackay, Cairns, Toowomba, Gold Coast and Mount Isa, making it the most geographically spread open-access performance and arts festival in the world. Botanic gardens, book stores, substations, laundromats, gyms and mid-century residential homes are some of the locations on offer this year. What you find in them is even more incredible: Immersive theatre, comedy, music, dance, workshops, magic and poetry with exciting new acts you’ll want to be the first to discover, along with the odd nationally known name and acts that started with Anywhere Fest and are now returning as The Guardian’s Top Picks of the Edinburgh Fringe. Get out and explore a new place, do a workshop, visit an exhibition and check out performance anywhere you least expect to find it between 4-21 May 2017. See you anywhere! Get Into Anywhere 5 Steps to experience Anywhere Get Involved 1. CHECK THIS GUIDE See shows and write about them After the success of the Anywhere Reviewers scheme in previous years it is back for 2017. See Anywhere Festival productions, write reviews and get them read. It’s as simple as 1,2,3... 4,5 See everything on offer by show name, date and time, location, price and type of event. Scan the QR code next to the picture to go straight to the online event listing with all the details. Head to page 5 for more about this Guide. 2. HEAD ONLINE FOR MORE INFO AND TO BOOK Head to anywheretheatre.com to book and find out more, read reviews, check out videos and photos. Phone bookings at 07 3102 4683. Head to Page 5 for more about the new website. 4. GET TICKETS BY EMAIL No need to print - just bring your phone. Need tickets at the door? For the first time, all Anywhere Theatre Festival events will have facilities to take card payments at the venue before the event. 5. THE EXPERIENCE Once you have experienced the event, write a review (short or long) on the event page at anywheretheatre.com 6. NOMINATE A SHOW Head online and nominate the event for an Anywhere Award at anywherefest.com/awards. There are many ways you can get more involved with Anywhere. To find out more, scan the QR code to head to anywherefest.com/reviewer. Photograph interesting events We love a visual record of the festival and we can’t be everywhere at once. Take a picture at a production and tag us on Facebook, or, if you’re game, become an official Anywhere Theatre Festival Photographer. To find out more, scan the QR code to head to anywherefest.com/photographer. Volunteer with independent producers Becoming an Anywhere Volunteer is a great way to experience the festival in another way, see lots of shows and help the independent producers present exciting new work. We’re always looking for people interested in getting involved to help out the festival with everything from front of house to marketing. Partners and Thank you This year we are partnering with a record-breaking two hundred and thirty six organisations across Queensland to make Anywhere Theatre Festival an amazing success. We wanted to take the opportunity to acknowledge major partners and say thank you before we get onto all our incredible host and performance partners that follow. Queensland Government For seven years, Anywhere Theatre Festival has worked with the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland to create opportunities for local independent artists to present work, to demonstrate how the arts can add value to local businesses and provide unique cultural (and let’s not forget, fun) experiences anywhere but a theatre. Involvement represents more than just financial support; the team at Arts Queensland have consistently encouraged us to strive for better governance, growth and helped us to hone our creative business model to make Anywhere Theatre Festival better than it otherwise could be. Brisbane Marketing and Brisbane City Council Anywhere Theatre Festival would like to thank Brisbane City Council and Brisbane Marketing for their ongoing support in ensuring the success of the festival and making it easy to perform. Council were key in the development of the Anywhere Theatre app and website through Creative Sparks funding, while Brisbane Marketing elevated the awareness of the event. Scenestr scenestr is our major media partner and we couldn’t be more excited. scenestr delivers unparalleled coverage of the arts via a market-leading, national network of street press and digital titles. They’ll be first with all the Anywhere Theatre Festival news, of course, along with all things entertainment happening in wonderful South East Queensland. Communify 4 Communify is an independent, profit-for-good organisation. Locally-based, it provides opportunities for people, whatever their stage of life, to join activities that are interesting, stimulating and who support an active, healthy and socially connected life. This year we have partnered with Communify so artists can access free rehearsal space and reduced rates on other spaces as well as including some of the amazing activities that happen every week Major Venue Hosts This year there are a full two pages of incredible locations you will find overleaf. We’d especially like to acknowledge Museum of Brisbane, Kookaburra Showboat Cruises and Queensland Museum for hosting some big events this year. Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance We are very excited to be working with the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance to launch Anywhere Theatre Festival in the Sunshine Coast. The Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance (SCCA) is a non-profit association formed with the aim of promoting creative enterprise and artistic expression as drivers of innovation, business, culture and regional identity on the Coast. Special Mentions Special thanks also to Underground Opera for all their assistance at the Spring Hill Reservoir (you really have to check it out and their operas at the same time) and Ipswich Festival for including Anywhere Theatre Festival events in Ipswich within their program. To our fearless and considerate volunteer board of Helen Astbury, Doug Brimblecombe, Alex Podger, Megan Lavender, Gary McDonald, Howard Duggan and Jeremy Wicht. We’d also like to thank people who have joined Anywhere Theatre Festival to help us land the proverbial airliner on the postage stamp: Shirley Way, Nycole Prowse, Toni Wills, Dougal McLauchlan and Tim Monley. We’d also like to thank our audience - you - who advocate on our behalf every time you purchase a ticket, talk about the independent producers or volunteer your time for the independent sector. Guide Listings Decoded This year each event has more space so you can get a better idea about what the show is all about. We’ve also got half a page free which should be enough to decode the listings to make it easy to find what you want and discover things you didn’t know you wanted. Banner The banner colour is your key to the location. If you see more than one colour, that means you can find the show in more than one region! All show pages have the regions colour coded in the bottom right corner for easy reference. QR Code The pattern of black and white squares is your direct link to the information online. On your smart phone, download any of the free QR Readers from the App Store or Google Play, put the code in the frame and go straight to all the up to date details at anywheretheatre.com Ratings We used the standard TV rating system G (General), PG (Parental Guidance recommended) M (Mature 15+) and 18+. Please note some venues only allow 18+ audiences. Description Get an idea of the show and head to the online listing on anywheretheatre.com for more info’, images and video to help you make your choice. Location and Times Find out when and where events are happening. Find the exact location on our two pages of performance hosts or at the online listing.Details correct at time of going to press but please check online for up to date details, as some events may change. Guide to anywheretheatre.com This year we have an all-new web site to help you find your way around the festival and to buy tickets. Here’s a quick guide and some pointers to find what you want in the 2017 Anywhere Theatre Festival. anywheretheatre.com is split up into three main areas to help you discover events during the festival. Search Bar Want to search by a word, artist name, venue, location? Just type it into the main search bar and press the big green SEARCH button. You will get a list of results as well as a map showing you where to find them. You can zoom in and out of the map to get more precise detail Featured Not sure what to see or where to go? We randomly select new events each time you go to the page. This is suggestions across the entire festival, so make sure it is near where you live. Genre Buttons Interested in all dance, poetry or workshops? Click on one of the genre buttons for a list of events that fit the bill. Where you’ll find 700+ performances,exhib Here are the public spaces, local businesses and residential homes that make Anywhere Fest po customers discover local businesses, public spaces are experienced as never before and people mak have made it possible for local artists to present work that you might never get to see and to experienc and visit them again many times in the future! All show names at each location are in BOLD. BRISBANE 15 THORN ST, Red Hil 4059 Clowns Are People Too 35 SUEZ ST Mitchelton 4053 Somewhere Else But Now 85 CRICKET ST Brisbane 4000 The Bible AUSTRALIAN MODERN 9 Burchill Street, Carina 4152 Bethan Ellsmore is... Bossa Nova Sunset Club: Brazil Trespassers @ Burchill Street Oh Lady Be Good AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL HOTEL (UPSTAIRS) 867 Stanley St, Woolloongabba, 4102 Eileen’s Piss Up 6 BEDOUIN BREW 25 Sperling St, Rocklea, 4106 Food & Masculinity Double Bill Junkyard Wormhole BEN’S BURGERS 153 Boundary St, West End 4101 Calypso Nights Weekend at Barnie’s Dani Cabs is PONCHO ORANGE BETTY’S ESPRESSO & BAR 11 Browning St, South Brisbane 4101 Regan Lynch Does It In Public Flowers are all around me now... BOGGO ROAD GAOL Boggo Rd, Dutton Park 4102 Boggo Road Gaol Tours BOOKS@STONES 360 Logan Rd, Stones Corner 4120 In Search of Silence BRATHOUSE FACTORY 47 Balaclava St, Woolloongabba 4102 Get Your Affairs In order BREAKWATER PARK Waterloo Esplanade, Wynnum 4178 Johnny WHO & His Electric Kazoo THE BRICKHOUSE CAFE 277 Nudgee Road, Hendra 4011 The Race BRISBANE TRAMWAY MUSEUM 50 Tramway St, Ferny Grove 4055 2 Across CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET KING GEORGE SQUARE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM CANVAS KOOKABURRA QUEEN SHOWBOAT CRUISES QUEENSLAND STREET MALL 619-621 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba 4102 Fully Made Up! An Improvised Cabaret It’s Not Easy Being Green 16 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba 4102 Music & Lyrics by Naomi & Hannah Ann St, Brisbane City 4000 Nomad Suitcase Rummage DAP JEWELRY SCHOOL 44 Harries Road, Coorparoo 4151 DAP Jewelry School Workshops 1 Eagle street Pier, Brisbane Cluedo! An interactive Game Comedy Cruises on... Released Sugar, Sugar! Daz Buckley’s Bedazzled EAST BRISBANE BOWLS CLUB MAD DANCE HOUSE 38 Lytton Rd, East Brisbane 4169 Hot Cult Let It Be Medusa FIVE SISTERS CAFE & BAR 141 Melbourne St, South Brisbane 4101 The Traveling Sisters FLIPSIDE CIRCUS 117 Mina Parade, Alderley 4051 Fusion Hiraeth THE FOX HOTEL 71-73 Melbourne St, South Brisbane 4101 Mania GOLDEN PIG COOKING SCHOOL 38 Ross Street, Newstead 4005 Let Them Eat Cake HAZELWOOD STREET Highgate Hill 4101 Deal or Ordeal HOOHA BAR 41 Tribune Street, Brisbane City 4101 The Boudoir Room HOUSE CONSPIRACY 42 Mollison St, West End 4012 Dream a House Tortured Remixes & Other Experiments The Repairman ITHACA HALL Cnr Kennedy/ Enoggera Terrace, Red Hill 4059 Bust A Move Loud & Clear JUBILEE HALL 180 Jubilee Tce, Bardon Spontanteity Improvisation Class Grey St & Melbourne St, South Brisbane 4101 unsettle Brisbane CBD 4000 City Sounds QUT LIBRARY Kelvin Grove, 4059 Panopticon REDCLIFFE STATE HIGH SCHOOL 43 Adelaide Street, Brisbane 4000 Behind The Red Door Cnr of Klinger Rd & Oxley Ave, Redcliffe 4020 Signs MENAGERIE RELOAD ESPRESSO BAR MERTHYR RD UNITING CHURCH S.P.A.C.E 22/8 Carraway St, Kelvin Grove 4059 Burn The B-List 52 Merthyr Rd, New Farm, 4005 Shades of Love THE MILK FACTORY 48 Montague St, South Brisbane, 4101 Chris Martin & Michael Griffin... Middle Class White Boy MUSEUM OF BRISBANE Brisbane City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City 4000 The Farce Awakens City Hall Tours Clock Tower Tours Friday Nights @ The Museum PADDINGTON HALL 10 Moreton St, Paddington 4064 Musical Reunion Cabaret THE PADDINGTON SUBSTATION 150 Enoggera Tce, Paddington 4064 Professor Plum, In The Parlour... PADRE BAR 9 Chrome St, Salisbury 4107 Released: Recording the Riot Cnr Branton & Paley St, Kenmore, 4069 Big Night Out Dance Parties Bust A Move SHRI YOGA 26 Burnett Ln, Brisbane City 4000 Einstein on the Bitch SIMPLY EROTIX Unit 5, 259 Stafford Rd, Stafford 4053 Hypnogasm SPRING HILL STUDIO 10 Love St, Spring Hill 4000 The Last Ginger ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL Boardroom, 411 Main Street, Kangaroo Point 4169 Songstress: Poetic Midwife TARRAGINDI SCOUTS 31 Newington St, Tarragindi 4121 Around the Campfire 598 Stanley St, Woolloongabba 4102 Apocalypse Variety Hour Midsummer Up Late with Anywhere Hard Boiled Dick: Boiled Harder TOOWONG BOWLS CLUB QUEENSLAND ACADEMIES CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 79 Waterton Street, Annerley 4103 The Miscreants Present 61 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove 4059 Creating Characters Through Play Burn The B-List QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOME 347 Old Cleveland Rd, Coorparoo 4151 The Flood 59 Gailey Rd, Taringa 4068 Raconteurs & Balladeers TYLER’S SHED URBAN CLIMB 17 Roy St, Milton, 4064 Deep Pockets WANTOK MULTICULTURAL CENTRE Old Petrie Town, Dayboro Road Kurwongbah 4503 Flutter the Fairy... bitions and workshops across Queensland! ossible! They offer space and resources in kind for performances, exhibitions and rehearsals. New ke new connections as they are welcomed into homes. The wonderful people behind these locations ce familiar and unknown nooks and crannies in a new way. Make sure you thank them for their support WATERSPIRIT LAUNDROMAT 746 Main St, Kangaroo Point 4169 Laundromat Sessions with Ling Jay WEST VILLAGE 97 Boundary St, West End 4101 Serf City WOOLLOONGABBA ART GALLERY 613 Stanley St, Woolloongabba 4102 The Maids WOOLLOONGABBA SUBSTATION 45 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba 4102 How Far Do You Want To Go? If Only… Key Insights to Nearby Galaxies Puberty! The Uncut Edition TBC: The Basement Collective THE WORKS DANCE STUDIO 19 Burke Street, Woolloongabba 4102 Game of Love Workshop SUNSHINE COAST 8 LENSKE LANE Cooran, 4569 Sleepy Old Moon’ and other stories... THE BISON BAR C-Square Courtyard, 52-64 Currie Street, Nambour 4560 Bethan Ellsmore is… Cluedo! An Interactive Game NamVision CAFE CREATE 36 -38 Price St, Nambour 4560 Wild Women’s Tales THE COURTYARD The Arcade, 65 Burnett St, Buderim 4556 Polly Honeycombe HOMEGROWN CAFE 4/16 Main St, Palmwoods 4555 It Could Be Verse IPSWICH / GOLD COAST THE IMPERIAL HOTEL THE DARK MAGICIAN MAJESTIC CINEMAS (FOYER) 11 Bell St, Ipswich 4305 Heavenly Hijinx THE FAMILY CENTRE 1/14 Amber Road, Tweed Heads Game of Love Workshop FIRESTATION 101 101 Limestone St, Ipswich 4305 Released: Recording the Riot IPSWICH URBAN LOUNGE The Mall, Ipswich 4305 Game of Love Workshop MANDALA ORGANIC ARTS CAFE 2558 Gold Coast Hwy, Mermaid Beach 4218 Game of Love Workshop OLD COURTHOUSE 1 Etheridge St, Eumundi 4562 Mania Sugar, Sugar! C-Square, 52-64 Currie St, Nambour 4560 Q Up The Coast Triple Bill MAPLETON HALL 31 Obi Obi Rd, Mapleton 4560 Released NOOSA ARTS CAFE 205 Weyba Rd, Noosaville 4566 Cherry Ripes NOOSA BOTANIC GARDENS Lake MacDonald Dr, Lake MacDonald 4563 (Amphitheatre) Romeo & Juliet OCEAN STREET MARKETS Ocean Street, Maroochydore 4558 The One Room In The House 75 East St, Ipswich 4305 Game of Love Workshop THE OLD AMBULANCE STATION VIVA ITALIA THE OLD VILLAIN ESPRESSO 5/231 Brisbane St, Ipswich 4305 The Travelling Sisters 80 Howard St, Nambour 4560 Under The Time Machine 101 Currie St, Nambour 4560 The Baristas of Nambour PAGE FURNISHERS 31 Factory St, Pomona 4568 I Dare Ya! RESIDENTIAL HOME Marcus Beach 4573 Tim Ross’ Man About The House RESIDENTIAL HOME Peregian Beach, 4573 Back To The Crossroads SWITCH ESPRESSO C-Square, 52-64 Nambour 4560 Balloonacy! Currie HERVEY BAY Street, UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST 90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs 4556 Cello Ballade The One Room In The House VILLAGE SQUARE Peregian Beach, 4573 Little Seed’s Little Scenes MACKAY 148 WOOD ST Mackay, 4740 Lane Sounds CROSSFIT 4740 Showgrounds, p4/24 Milton St, Mackay 4740 Body Shopping KUTTABUL HOTEL 4741 Bruce Hwy, Kuttabul 4741 Queensland Seasons Circle NEIGHBORHOOD YOGA 1/5 Holland St, West Mackay 4740 Art Gazing the Lunaverse THE PARISH HALL Carpark, Corner Gordon and Wood Streets, Mackay 4740 reveal • react • resist PORTERS Brisbane Street, Mackay 4740 Timber Dreams SECRET LOCATION Hot Desk Riot MOUNT ISA NORTH WEST GYMNASTICS 15/13 Flower St, Miles End 4825 Red Dust, Black Silk CAIRNS TUCKER ST Machans Beach 4878 Machans Beach Pop-Up Gallery TOOWOOMBA SECRET LOCATION Game Of Love Workshop SUITCASE RUMMAGE Check website for details Suitcase Rummage Donors Thank you to ‘people power’. By everyone adding a little bit it make the whole thing possible. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone over the past year who has donated anything from $5 to $2,000 to help keep Anywhere Theatre Festival as an event for the people by the people. You can donate anytime at the link (or scan the QR code or adding in some extra dollars when you buy your tickets online. 8 Austin Adams Kelsey Adams Gilbert Albertson Philip Alford Michelle Allen Ellie Anderson Helen Astbury Cheryl Aubrey Caroline Austin Jordan Ayres Sepy Baghaei barbara Bailey Gabrielle Baker Paul Banister angus barnes Simon Barnett Yara Barrozo Chris Bartholomew Alistair Barton Siobhan Batt Kerry Beaumont Hayden Beilby Hannah Belanszky Matt Bell Lana Bellingham-Young Leigh Beresford Alan Beswick Ashley Bicknell Tim Bird Anthony Bishop Ingrid Blackett Elizabeth Blomberg Mark Bonaccorso Cassie Booth Peter Booth Dion Borg Jacquie Boumford Julie Bowden Robert Boyd Lynda Brown Sarah Bryant Sophia Buckley Kerrie Bull Frances Cahill Athina Cantle Susie Carleton Suzanne Carlisle John Carozza Helen Carpenter Michelle Carter Jacob Cavanough Aleisha Chanas Sarel Cilliers Sarah Clarke Cameron Cliff Ian Clough Damian Comans Daniel Cox Dale Cox Cassandra Croucher Leelyn Cruddas Andrew Cusack Alicia Cush Sandra Cuthbert Chris Cuyler David Czarnuszewicz Connor D’Netto Alison Dalwood Lily Daoud Alex Darton Super Dawson Matthew Della Nat Denning Roberta DobsonPatterson Esther Dougherty Alexandra Douglas Aaron Ducker Reanne Duffy Alex Dundas-Taylor Lyndell Duroux Donna Dyson Andrew Dyson Thea Ebelings clarissa elakis Michelle Else Lauren Elsinger Janine Emmett Bill Ennals Shenda Evans Natano Faanana Bronwyn Fadden Julia Farkas Kerryanne Farrer Louisa Filius Trevor Findlay Naima Fine Deanne Fishburn Andrew Fisher Kate Flamsteed Hannah Flannery Kristian Fletcher Gabriella Flowers Kate Flynn Kirsten Fogg Amelia Fotheringham Kimberley Francis Mark Fuller Deanne Gannaway Geraldine George Marisa Georgiou Phoebe Gilbert Eleonora GInardi Shirley Glennon Amanda Goode Nicola Gordon Daniel Gough Sally Grage-Moore Fiona Granville Gabby Gregory Coleman Grehan Brynnin Halliday Salli Hamilton Damien Hammond Kerry Hammonds Chelsea Handasyde Paul Handley Terry Hansen Ella Hardam-Hill Mary Hardy Paul Hardyman Les Harley Sandra Harmen Daniel Harriman Sophia Haworth Barry Haworth Penny Hayes Dave Hayes Jesse Herwig Margaret Hickey Heather Hill Trent Hocking Dianne Holcombe Nicola Holland Anja Homburg Tim Horgan John Horgan Sandra Hornstra Kristian Horvath Bernard Houston Sue Howard Emily Howard Sue Howard Sophie-Jane Huchet Liam Huchet Iain Hunter Daniel Hurst Bridget Ingle genny irving Shari Irwin Clayton Ive Luke Jaaniste Jamie Jefferies John Jeffrey Christine Johnston Xanthe Jones Yance Jones Amanda (Mandy) Kelly Anthony Kennedy Nathan Kennedy Madison Kennedy-Tucker Annette Kerwitz Simon Kindt Carolyn King Jenna Koda David Kong Lisa Laing Barbara Laing Jenny Laing Zayne Lake Daniel Lane Elena Lanina Robyn Latham Sharon Lavey Anne Lee-Archer Tammy Linde Nikki Lloyd Adrian Love Ellen M Bella MacDiarmid Kate Malone Kristen Maloney Julia Maloney Heidi Manche Zoe Manduit Paul Marshall Christopher Martin David Massingham Nik Mastrapostolos Karen McBride Louise McCabe Bruch McCabe Julie McCarthy Fay McClure Jan McCollow Robyn McDowell Patrick McGreevy Kathryn McKee Lynne McLachlan Julie McMahon Wendy McTavish Alexandra McTavish Kristin Metzeling Therese Milanovic Nicki Milios Georgi Milln Sally Mitchell Elva Moller Marion Monement Jude Moore Lizzie Moore Stephen Moore Pam Mostyn Joanne Mulligan Nigel Munro-Wallis Libby Myers Vanessa Mylrea Lisa Napier Jemma Neary-Grant Bec Newton Nancy Nguyen India Nicholls Stuart Nix Meg Norris Sabina Nowak Salvatore Nucifora John O’Kane Elisabeth OBrien Alicia Oelkers Claire Ogden Tony Ogden Paul Osuch Jessica Palfrey Rose Parlan Alexandra Patterson Cam Percy Joanna Peters Louise Phillips Claudia Piggott Mateuse Pingol Lydia Pitcher Tim Pole Helen Poole Georgiana Poulter Kathryn Preston Ray Pulsford Rob Purssey Grant Quinn Angela Quinn Elena Quirk Denise Redfern Fiona Rix Thomas Roach Wendy Robertson Kathryn Rodney Remi Roehrs Michael Rogerson Debra Rollings Sebastian Roncalla Ramirez Crystal Roy Justine Rudd Stephanie Russo Jo Sampford Molly Sanders-Dwyer Peta Savidge Libby Scales Nathan Schulz Suzanne Scott Nicholas Seery Connie Sellers Wanida Serce Robert Sharp Alex Shaw Lillian Shewring Julie Simon-Green Lily Sinclair Lyndall Sing Emma Skelton Lisa Smith Shannon Smith Lisa Smith Craig Snaylam Scott Sneddon Mark Snow nick solley Gabrielle Sottile Anneliese Spinks Renee Spry Sandie Staermose Andrew Stapleton Alicia Steele Susan Stenlake Suzanne Stone Glen Strike Robin Sunday Adrian Tan Matthew Tham Les Thoimpson Francis Thompson Deborah Thomson Adrian Threadgould Rebecca Tierney Trevor Tighe Geraldine Tonkin Helen Trochoulias Michelle Tucker Kerry Turnbull Meagan Turner Elizabeth Tyson-Doneley Catherine Ufer Jennifer Usher Judy Usher Francisca Vanderwoude Gabriella Veidt-Wiedmer Susan Vlack Tracey Walker Erin Ward Katherine Waria Karen Warren Ellen Wengert Kate West Mark Wetton Brenda White Marg & Scott Whitelaw Catherine Whitfield John Wieland Hilary Wiffen Melina Wightman Lynda Wightman Emily Wilkinson Helen Wilkinson Birgit Willadsen Jo Willans Ben Wilmott David Wilson Ezra Winston Kirsten Winter Joy Wood Marg Woodgate Nathaniel Young Bri Zammit Cindy Zhou Donate 2016 Anywhere Theatre Festival launch. Photograph by Stuart Hirth 2017 Anywhere Theatre Festival At A Glance For the first time, Anywhere Theatre Festival has burst beyond the Brisbane city walls for performances, exhibitions and worshops anywhere in Queensland: Ipswich & Gold Coast, Mackay, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, Hervey Bay and Mount Isa. Brisbane listings are overleaf. thu 4 fri 5 sat 6 sun 7 mon 8 tue 9 wed 10 thu 11 fri 12 sat 13 sun 14 mon 15 tue 16 wed 17 thu 18 Ipswich & Gold Coast Game of Love Workshop Heavenly Hijinx Nomad See website for details! Released: Ignition Edition Travelling Sisters (The) Mackay Art Gazing the Lunaverse Backyard Mixed Tape Sessions Body Shopping Lane Sounds Queensland Seasons Circle reveal • react • resist Timber Dreams Sunshine Coast Back To The Crossroads Balloonacy! The Baristas of Nambour Bethan Ellsmore is... Cello Ballade Cherry Ripes Flutter the Fairy... I Dare Ya! It Could Be Verse Little Seeds Little Scenes Mania NamVision The One Room Of The House Polly Honeycombe Released Romeo & Juliet in the Gardens Sleepy Old Moon and... Sugar! Sugar! Tim Ross Man About The House Triple Bill Wild Women’s Tales Cairns, Hervey Bay, Mount Isa, Toowoomba Game of Love Workshop Hot Desk Riot Machans Beach Pop-Up Gallery Red Dust, Black Silk fri 19 sat 20 sun 21 2017 Anywhere Theatre F thu 4 fri 5 sat 6 sun 7 mon 8 2 Across Apocalypse Variety Hour (The) Around the Campfire Behind the Red Door Bethan Ellsmore is…Queen of... Bible (The) Big Night Out Dance Parties Boggo Road Gaol Tours Bossa Nova Boudoir Room (The) Burn The B-List Bust A Move Calypso Nights Chris Martin & Michael Griffin... City Hall Tour City Sounds | Live Music City Sounds 2 Clock Tower Tour Clowns Are People Too Cluedo! An Interactive Game 10 Comedy Cruise on the Kookaburra... Creating Characters Thru Play Dani Cabs is Poncho Orange DAP Jewelry School Workshops Daz Buckley’s Bedazzled Deal or Ordeal Deep Pockets Dream A House Eileen’s Piss Up Einstein on the Bitch Europe Won’t Fix You Farce Awakens (The) Flood (The) Flowers are all around me now... Flutter the Fairy & The Magical... Food and Masculinity Double Bill (The) Fully Made Up! An Improvised Cabaret Fusion Game Of Love Workshop Get your affairs in order Hard Boiled Dick: Boiled Harder Hiraeth Hot Cult How Far Do You Want To Go? Hypnogasm See website for details. tue 9 wed 10 thu 11 fri 12 sat 13 sun 14 mon 15 tue 16 wed 17 thu 18 fri 19 sat 20 sun 21 Festival Brisbane Events thu 4 fri 5 sat 6 sun 7 mon 8 tue 9 wed 10 thu 11 fri 12 sat 13 sun 14 mon 15 If Only In Search of Silence It’s Not Easy Being Green Johnny Who and his electric Kazoo Junkyard Wormhole Key Insights to Nearby Galaxies Last Ginger (The) Late Nights With Anywhere Laundromat Sessions with Ling Jay Let it be Let Them Eat Cake Loud and Clear Maids (The) Mania Medusa Middle Class White Boy Midsummer Miscreants Present (The) Museum of Brisbane: Friday Nights Music & Lyrics with Naomi & Hannah Musical Reunion Cabaret Nomad Oh Lady Be Good Panopticon Professor Plum, In The Parlour... Puberty! The Uncut Edition Race (The) Raconteurs & Balladeers Regan Lynch Does It In Public Released: Recording the Riot Repairman (The) Serf City Shades of Love Signs Somewhere Else But Now Songstress: Poetic Midwife Spontaneity – Improvisation Classes Sugar! Sugar! Suitcase Rummage TBC: The Basement Collective Tortured Remixes & Other Experiments Travelling Sisters (The) Trespassers @ Burchill Street unsettle Weekend At Barnie’s See website for more dates. tue 16 wed 17 thu 18 fri 19 sat 20 sun 21 The Apocalypse Variety Hour 2 Across Big Fork Theatre Nathan Schulz Presents 60m | M $12-$15 80m | PG $25-$30 A comedy of Crosswords and Romance Even the end of the world can be funny They’re alone in the car, both are married and both are doing the New York Times crossword. She’s an organised, sensible, psychologist, He’s a free spirited, unemployed ad exec. She’s a crossword pro and he always quits. Live from the Brisbane metropolitan bunker its The Apocalypse Variety Hour – everyone’s favourite late night comedy show! Their trip is filled with unpredictable but believable surprises, even a passionate embrace or two, and as the train ride ends, it’s obvious each of them has been changed for the better. But will these two ever meet again? This is An Amateur Production By ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN THEATRICAL, ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Brisbane Tramway Museum, Ferny Grove 9-12/5 @ 7.30pm Around The Campfire Big Fork Theatre 12 The world may have ended in a cataclysmic disaster, but that doesn’t mean the party has to! Dust off your sweaty dirt rags and join a raft of rotating characters, hosts, games, interviews and special guest performances from the mutated lifeforms of Anywhere Theatre Festival guests and Brisbane comedy heroes. Leave your existential dread at the door and join Big Fork Theatre for the (last) night of your life! Padre Bar, Wolloongabba 5,6,12,13/5 @ 9.30pm Art Gazing the Lunaverse Lesley Kane 60min | PG $5-$30 60m | PG $17.50 Great tales with great mates Upside Art Downtown Performance About-Time Music Leave the city behind and join Big Fork Theatre down by the campfire for a night of laughter, mayhem, mateship and marshmallows. Local artist Lesley Kane invites you to enter the peaceful sanctuary of Neighbourhood Yoga and enjoy Art Gazing for the very first time here in Mackay. Big Fork Theatre is proud to present our new show, Around the Campfire – a fully improvised comedy inspired by the great Aussie tradition of swapping stories around the campfire. Every performance of Around the Campfire will be unique and suitable for all ages. Bring along some picnic food and drinks to complete the experience. Presented with the generous support of Tarragindi Scouts. Lay back and indulge your senses in live music, spoken word and experience a lapse in time. Neighbourhood Yoga, West Mackay 12/5 @ 6.30pm - 7.30pm Tarragindi Scouts 13,14,20,21/5 @ 6.30pm Back To The Crossroads The Backyard Mixed Tape Sessions Fat Mattress Productions Kirsty Gostelow 120m | PG $20 240m | M $50 A search for the lost song Secret Acoustic Singer/Songwriters Session Fat Mattress Productions presents an exploration of the musical genius of Ry Cooder. The Backyard Mixtape Sessions will be an evening of live music in a secret location within a 30 min drive from the Mackay CBD. James Mather and Alex McKean revisit the 1986 film which led them astray from the broad highway of classical music and into the sordid alleyway of the blues. The Backyard Mixtape Sessions will engage four musicians all performing their own original music. Enjoy a live performance of selections from Ry Cooder’s soundtrack, embroidered with storytelling about the almost mythological central figure of the film, Robert Johnson. Special guest performance from David Knobel. Residential Home, Peregian Beach 6/5 @ 4.30pm (Doors open 4pm) The event will start at 6pm and run through until 10pm. Acoustic Original performances from:Tia Gostelow, Mick Woodbridge, Jessikah Baillie, Kate Heart. Secret Location in Mackay 13/5 @ 6pm - 10pm Balloonacy! by Barry Kornhauser 3bCREATIVE The Baristas Of Nambour Mary Eggleston 45m | G $0-$10 45m | PG $5 When words simply aren’t enough Dreams of McCafes & Servos A delightful little romp that has plenty of playful shtick but also offers some touching reminders of the ups and downs of developing a strong friendship. Discover how the power of friendship can turn someone’s life upside down and help them fly to new heights in this original, fun, exciting and uplifting comedy for all ages. Derain the puppet reporter is on a mission; to tell a poignant story of the art of coffee making, survival and staying true to your cultural identity in small town Australia. Originally written for children by Barry Kornhauser, Balloonacy! transcends into theatre for seniors, people with language difficulties and those with special rights. Think the silent era of early film and the clowning style of Jaques Tati, Jerry Lewis and Marcel Marceau combined. Come along to the live screening of The Baristas of Nambour and hear the inside stories of pursuing your dreams of hospitality in a landscape of McCafes and servos. The Old Villain Espresso, Nambour 16/5 @ 6.30pm Kids under 2 years FREE! Switch Espresso, C-Square, Nambour 6 & 13/5 & 3pm Bethan Ellsmore is... The Queen of the Night Little Black Dress Creatives 60m | 18+ $30 45m | PG $22 What really happened? Cabaret Queen Bethan Ellsmore summons you to a night of revelry Another Dance Company in association with Mad Dance House and the Anywhere Theatre Festival present Behind the Red Door. Under the cover of darkness, anything is possible… Be entertained, perhaps spooked and totally treated! Mad Dance House, Brisbane City 18-21/5 @ 9.30pm Big Night Out Dance Parties Big Night Out Kenmore Join her in a seductive and slightly silly cabaret as she takes you from the frivolity of an operatic dream to the murky reality of a nightclub weaving stories of aching hearts and heartfelt abandon. “Ellsmore’s voice is a remarkable instrument and she plays it flawlessly” – Blue Curtains Australian Modern, Carina 5/5 @ 7pm doors open for 7.30pm show Bison Bar, Nambour 6/5 @ 7.30pm The Bible El Telon Theatre 150m | PG $15 50m | PG $20 Changing the world one dance party at a time An incredible comedy show! Big Night Out is an inclusive event that reflects the dynamic and infectious atmosphere of a night on the town. A street preacher will try to spread the WORD, while a troupe of clowns will do their best to INTERPRET the readings of the bible, and even though their will is to be accurate to the lesson, their naivety will get in the way. For 10 years, we’ve held an open-invite dance party on the first Friday of most months where we provide a DJ, dance floor, and light meal - it’s a pretty simple formula for fun! Check Listing What characters still lurk in the building from all the tenancies over the past century? Come and bare witness to these past characters from behind the red door being retold through dance. Bethan Ellsmore is a curious urban fantasist who insists that you can sing Mozart, The Strokes, Weill and Sia in the same soiree. Sunshine Coast Contemporary, Jazz and Hip Hop Dancers come together to tell the history of 43 Adelaide Street–a heritage listed building with a decadent, colourful and mysterious past. Participants are joined by a crew of young and energetic volunteers who help facilitate BIg Night Out to provide support and social inclusion for members of our community with special needs. The Bible (Street clown version) is a provocative piece which portraits a challenge between the street preacher readings of the bible and the interpretation that a troupe of homeless clowns will make of it. The public will face this innocent and in good faith, clash between the ideal and the reality, the misinterpretation and the findings, the looking for the truth and at the end, that being a human is somehow having sincere flaws. s.p.a.c.e, Kenmore 5/5 @ 6.30pm East Brisbane Bowls Club 4,11,12,18,19/5 @ 4pm Mackay Ipswich Mad Dance House Brisbane Behind The Red Door Boggo Road Gaol Tours Body Shopping Boggo Road Gaol Slade Point Drawing Group 60-120m | $30-$45 2h 30m | $10 Send your group to gaol! A Body of Work Bodyshopping ….What better place than a gym for an exhibition of Life Drawing and Painting. From Naked to Nude. See the Bearded Lady???. Watch a young Henna Artist draw a Nude on a Life Model. See the image grow in it’s unique and organic style. Try your hand at drawing the action,tap into your own creativity,find your inner artist. Be entertained by our super cool guest musicians. All Artwork is for sale…$50 to $200.00. See you at the gym! Crossfit 4740, Mackay 7/5 @ 3pm Visit Boggo Road Gaol on a guided tour through Number 2 Division – the source of rooftop protests and home to lifers. Number 2 Division is as it was when it shut down in November 1989. The tours provide commentaries and stories on the accessible parts of the gaol (please note that for safety reasons some sections are currently inaccessible). There are five themed tours: The History of Boggo Road Gaol, ExInmate/Ex-Office Tour, Escapes Tour, Graffiti Tour and The Boggo Road Gaol Ghost Tour available at regular scheduled times. Boggo Road Gaol, Dutton Park Various Times during May Bossa Nova Sunset Club: Nordestino The View From Madeleine’s Couch The Boudoir Room Queensland Academies Creative Industries 60m | M 14 35m | PG $FREE $30 | Gorgeous music from the heartland of Brazil Queensland Academies Creative Industries Show After two sold-out seasons, this third and final session of the Sunset Club will joyously bring to a close a series that has looked at the music of Brazil through the eyes and hearts of two of Australia’s most accomplished and respected artists in this field. A police detective burdened with working a suspected mob hit, runs into a dame at the Hounds Pit. The interaction between the two is nothing but casual at first, however, she seems to know more than she should… Music made for dancing, celebration and the telling of a nation’s story, Nordestino features songs from Brazil’s northeast, entwined with a little samba and home-grown baiao, and the continuing Brazilian adventures of Anje and Kym, who’ve made this music their life’s work. Creatives include Miranda Huttley and Alex Cox The Boudoir Room @ HooHa Bar, South Brisbane 7-9/5 @ 7.30pm Your ticket price includes exceptional hospitality from your hosts. Australian Modern, Carina 19-20/5 @ 7.30pm (Doors open 7pm) Burn The B-List Queensland Academies Creative Industries 45m | PG $FREE This is a promenade theatre show Creatives include Tom Burton, Anastasia Chistiakoff, Jamie O’Donnell, Saarya Khan, Bella Beiraghi, and Jack Hutchison Queensland Academy of Creative Industries, Kelvin Grove 11-13/5 @ 7pm Awful/Big Adventure by Sui Ensemble, 2016 Anywhere Theatre Festival Photograph by Krystal Beazley Calypso Nights Bust A Move DJ Juan Vesuvius Bust A Move Dance 60m | PG $20-$25 45-60m | G $Various Bust a Move Dance (BAMD) is a leading dance company for children, teens and adults with disabilities in Brisbane. We work with students of all ages and abilities. Dance sessions are all about inclusiveness, having fun, releasing energy and fostering the development of independence and creativity through the vehicle of dance. We are proud to be working with students with a wide range of disabilities including Autism, Down Syndrome, Deafness, intellectual impairments and physical disabilities, to name a few. BAMD encourages 100% independence from students, naturally allowing a huge development in confidence s.p.a.c.e, Kelvin Grove 9,16/5 @ 4pm Ithaca Town Hall, Red Hill 6,13,20/5 @ 1pm Prepare to be Calypso’d, courtesy of DJ Juan Vesuvius Join award-winning, Calypso-loving Juan Vesuvius, for a show that’s part music lesson, part dance party. Prepare to learn all there is to know about Calypso music courtesy of Juan, his two turntables, maracas and his impeccably styled shirt. After just an hour of Juan’s absurdist comedy, you’ll walk away with much-improved knowledge of Calypso, Kim Jong II, beauty pageants and sexual innuendos – and an indescribable urge to dance. Winner The Skinny Fringe Genius Award 2014 Edinburgh Fringe; Nominated Best Newcomer Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015. Ben’s Burgers, West End 10,11,13,14/5 @ 7.15pm Cherry Ripes Cherry Ripes 50m | PG $17 1h 10m | G $25-$30 Elegance romance virtuosity Better than a chook raffle! Louise King, cello and Catherine Guinevere Lynagh, piano Treat your Mother this Mother’s Day with this feel good musical comedy duo! Chris Martin & Michael Griffin: Piss Fartin? Mikey Likey 60m | PG $5 Lunch and drinks can be purchased before the show from the licensed deli cafe. Noosa Arts Cafe, Noosaville 14/5 @ 1pm City Hall Tours Museum of Brisbane 45m | G $FREE A new hour of comedy from two really funny guys Tour the building known in Brisbane as “the People’s Place” For one night only, an hour of stand-up and sketch comedy from two of Brisbane’s most beloved new comics and really funny guys. Whether you are a local or a tourist to Brisbane, a guided tour provides an opportunity to learn something about the art, architecture and history of City Hall – the building lovingly known in Brisbane as ‘the People’s Place’. Chris Martin (Melbourne Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival) and Michael Griffin (The Guardian, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival) are two nice men and they will make you laugh. Check Listing They skillfully squeeze in environmental, political and social commentary in their comedic songs. More fun than a chook raffle!! Sunshine Coast USC Art Gallery Sippy Downs 20/5 @ 3pm Two grey haired old sisters, Cherry and Ruby Ripe sing songs about Older Ladies; Menopause; Ex-Husbands and On Line Dating. Built between 1920 and 1930, the heritage-listed Brisbane City Hall is seen as the heart of Brisbane and has been the backdrop to many cultural, social and civic events. Once you’ve seen an hour of these two Piss Fartin around, you’ll be saying Mikey Likey! ** ONE NIGHT ONLY!! ** Tours are limited to 20 people per tour and may reach capacity early. Please arrive early to join your tour. Tours depart from the King George Square foyer. The Milk Factory, South Brisbane 15/5 @ 7.30pm Brisbane City Hall Daily 10.30am,11.30am, 1,30pm, 2.30pm Mackay Debussy – Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor I Prologue: sostenuto e molto risoluto II Serenade: Fantasque et léger III Finale: Animé, léger et nerveux, Earl Wild – Etude No.4 based on ‘Embraceable You’ by Gerschwin piano solo, Vaughan-Williams – Six Studies on an English Folk Song, Mendelssohn – Song without Words in D major, Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel, Ravel – Piece en Forme de Habenera, Brahms – Intermezzo Opus 118 No.2 in A major piano solo, Gliére – Ballade Op.4 in Bb major for cello & piano, Saint-Saëns – Allegro Appassionata, Shostakovich – Sonata for Cello and Piano Op.40 Ipswich Cello Dreaming Brisbane Cello Ballade City Sounds: Live Music City Sounds: 2 Brisbane Marketing Brisbane Marketing 30m | G $FREE 30m | G $FREE Live Music Queen Street Mall (Outside the Wintergarden) City Sounds is Australia’s largest free live music program, presenting local and touring bands and artists in the Queen Street Mall, Post Office Square, South Bank and other locations around Brisbane each week. With everything from alternative and folk, to jazz and electro, and everything in between, City Sounds has something for every music lover. City Sounds is Australia’s largest free live music program, presenting local and touring bands and artists in the Queen Street Mall, Post Office Square, South Bank and other locations around Brisbane each week. With everything from alternative and folk, to jazz and electro, and everything in between, City Sounds has something for every music lover. Queen Street Mall Friday - 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm Saturday - 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm Sunday - 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm Queen Street Mall (Outside the Wintergarden) Friday - 5pm, 6pm, 7pm. (30min sets) Saturday - 12pm, 1pm, 2pm. (30min sets) Sunday - 12pm, 1pm, 2pm. (30min sets) Clock Tower Tour Clowns Are People Too Museum of Brisbane Emmy McKenzie 15m | G $FREE 16 60m | G $10 Enjoy a view of Brisbane like no other #clownlivesmatter Located in Brisbane City Hall, the iconic Clock Tower Tour is a rare experience that takes you on a journey through the inside of the clock. Despite the recent controversy concerning clowns in our media; this one, lonely clown will show you how harmless they really are. Enjoy a ride up the beautiful, old, hand-operated lift to an observation deck 64 metres above the city to absorb this unique view of Brisbane. Operating since the opening of City Hall in 1930, and standing a total of 87.47 metres high, it is still a time-honoured tradition to “go up the Clock Tower”. She will take you on a journey to a place that is familiar, a place maybe you haven’t visited in a while. Brisbane Town Hall Daily, 10.15am – 4.45pm, every 15 minutes. Cluedo! An Interactive Game The Brisbane Immersive Ensemble 180m | M $35-$99 The hustle and bustle of your busy life will collide with that element of play that you may have lost along the way. 15 Thorn St, Red Hill 14/5 @ 3pm Comedy Cruise on the Kookaburra Queen Jenny Wynter 180m | PG $99 Catch the killer before he catches you! Brissie’s best comedy on Brissie’s best river! Climb aboard the historic Kookaburra Queen and join a lavish 1930’s cocktail party turned murder mystery, as the death of the host spurs an investigation through hidden rooms and into the secret lives of the party’s peculiar guests. What could be better than a night of Brisbane’s best comedy? A stunning night cruising on the Brisbane river! Cluedo! An Interactive Game is a theatrical reimagining and parody of the iconic Cluedo board game where guests must solve puzzles, find clues and discover the culprit who will spill the secret they would kill to keep. Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1930’s high society with swinging jazz music, divine vocalists and delicious food, this river cruise offers spine-tingling chills, thrills and spills a-plenty as you race against the clock to catch the killer! Kookaburra Queen, Brisbane City 5/5 @ 6.30 boarding for 7pm ($99) The Bison Bar, Nambour 12/5 @ 7pm (Doors open 6.30pm) ($35) Grab some friends and join us for this special laugh-filled evening on the iconic Kookaburra Queen featuring Brisbane’s best comics. Hosted by award-winning comedian Jenny Wynter, this is a once in a lifetime chance to laugh, dine and cruise away on a gorgeous Brissie icon! Tickets include a 3 hour cruise, buffet dining experience and a stellar comedy line-up. Kookaburra Queen, Brisbane City 4,18,19/5 @ 6.30 boarding for 7pm Dani Cabs is PONCHO ORANGE Dani Cabs Two Days $140-$150 Queensland Academy Creative Industries, Kelvin Grove 6-7/5 @ 10am-4pm DAP Jewellery School Workshop DAP Jewelry School Part Latin-lover, part human pleasure-machine, Poncho Orange is on an eternal quest for belonging… the good kind of belonging, if you know what I mean? Poncho Orange is a wild mix of clowning, dancing and physical comedy. He tempts the crowd into a flow of interaction and improvisation that’ll leave you crying tears of laughter and joy! Note: please For arrive those wishing to at least 20-30mins eat prior Ben’s Burgers, West End 3,4,6,7/5 @ 7.15pm before to the Daz Buckley’s Bedazzled Daz Buckley the start show time. 180m | G $50-$60 180m | G $45 Workshops in Ring Making, Earrings, Pewter Pendants + Bangles! A Funny, Charming, Magical Experience for all the Family Dap Jewellery School will be offering up a series of workshops on a variety of jewellery making techniques including Rings, Earrings, Pendants and Bangles. Imagine cruising the sweet May sunshine in Brisbane’s relaxing sub-tropical autumn temperatures on-board a genuine paddle steamer; a remnant of a forgotten age, enjoying a leisurely buffet lunch whilst being entertained in style by one of Brisbane’s most popular and magical performers, and enjoying the sights and sounds of the fabulous Brisbane River. Participants will be guided through each 3 hour workshop by experienced jeweller and artist Dan Cox. You will walk away with completed product, learn new skills and most of all, have fun! Wed 10 May @ 6:30pm – Pewter Cast Pendant Sat 13 May @ 9:00am – Bangle Workshop Wed 17 May @ 6:30pm – Ring Workshop Sat 20 May @ 9:00am – Earring Workshop Kookaburra Queen, Brisbane City 7,13/5 @ Noon boarding for 12.30pm By Ms. Demeanours Deep Pockets Sunshine Coast DAP Jewellery Workshop, Coorparoo Deal or Ordeal Bedazzled is a brand new 1 hour long family show with amazing magic, illusion, and music, featuring Brisbane’s own Daz Buckley, and directed by international magic star Jay Scott Berry and is pleased and excited to be partnering with the iconic and historic Kookaburra Show Cruises. Queensland Academies Creative Industries 45m | PG $FREE 60m | M $17 A game show for all players We invite you to drink, laugh, cringe and gamble on the most risky game show of the 21st century: Rape Culture. Life hack #878: Weeds grow when you water your plants. To fix this, water your garden community with toxic substances – or don’t water it at all! Forget the one-sided soapboxes, this is gritty content shared consensually to willing participants. Deal or Ordeal is engaging in the conversation for the ones that need it most – all of us. Battling a world designed to drown out your yeses and noes we encourage you to bare it all (including your nipples) in a no-holds-barred Highgate HIll basement. Remove those pesky and unwanted infiltrators of your garden with our simple home brew pesticide recipe of one part fascism two parts malevolence and a splash of mysogyny. Two dollars from every ticket sale will be donated to the BRISSC Womens House, the lead agency in responding to sexual violence against women Hazlewood Street, Highgate Hill 9,10,11,15,19,20/5 @ 7pm Check Listing Combining clowning exercises with improvisation and costume, you will create multi-faceted, complex and beautiful characters with the potential to exist in a variety of scenes and scenarios. After an EXTENDED RUN at Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe 2016, and appearing at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2017, Dani Cabs brings back to his home town, for Anywhere Fest, PONCHO ORANGE. Mackay Through a series of games, exercises and improvisations, you will create and explore new characters, generate new material, develop ideas, play with costume, explore ways to find fun and freedom on stage and develop tools for continued practice. Wild and Absolutely Hilarious! Ipswich Delve into the world of Characters in an intensive two-day workshop with experienced comedienne and clown, Laura Trenerry, one-third of character comedy trio The Travelling Sisters. 60m | M $15-$20 Deep Pockets is a contemporary performance brought to you by Ivan Falcongreen, Caley Springall and Thomas Cokel. Roy Street, Milton 12-14/5 @ 7.30pm Brisbane Creating Characters Through Play Workshop Laura Trenerry Dream a House Vena Cava Productions 60m | G $10-$15 Into the world of dreams... You are met at the front door of a house, or perhaps you knock and the door swings open to your touch? You hesitate at the door, uncertain of your next step, until an enticing smell captures your attention, and you follow your nose through the door, and deeper into the house. Dream a House is an immersive labyrinth installation that takes you through the corridors of memories you hold, and dreams you have traversed. Logic and causality step aside to make way for instinct and senses, as the poetics of space takes you deeper into the world of dreams. Anywhere Theatre Festival Founder Paul Osuch launching 2017 Anywhere Theatre Festival on the Sunshine Coast. Photograph by Stuart Hirth. Eileen’s Piss Up House Conspiracy, West End 18,19,20,21/5 @ 5.30 - 9.30pm Einstein On The Bitch Abigails Entertainment TBC | M $20 18 Lia Stark 45m (PG) $20 It’s been a long time between drinks A guide to being okay, making art and surviving Brisbane It’s time that Brisbane’s Doyen of hostessing Eileen Surepuss makes a welcome return for a totally unpredictable evening of what nots and what the hell was. Life as an independent artist in Brisbane got you down? Yep, Lia Stark too. So, let’s do something about it. Drinks are definitely in order as is a meat tray along with spotlight or two. Eileen and her special guests will delve into some of the best songs about boozing and booze written with a tipple in between or even during. So get your dancing shoes out and beer goggles on and let’s toast to a great night out. Upstairs Australian National Hotel, Woolloongabba 5/5 @ 8pm To navigate this seemingly unending artistic crisis, Lia has devised Einstein on the Bitch; a night about bringing together our community, stroking her ego and most importantly, finding a reason to get out of bed. This is one woman’s attempt to guide herself through living in Brisbane, making meaningful art and if there’s still time in the day, not going insane. Full of female neurosis, this not-quite-theatre, not-quite-group-therapy show will be a night to turn off Netflix for. Shri Yoga, Brisbane City 6/5 @ 8pm Europe Won’t Fix You The Farce Awakens The General Public TC Folly Games 50m | M $18-$25 90m | PG $35-$40 A travel tale you won’t find on Instagram Fight The Dull! Have you ever quit your job and bought a one-way ticket to Europe, only to find yourself broke and googling Centrelink options on your parents’ couch several months later? Enter a Game World on the brink of destruction by a mysterious force known as The Dull. The Farce Awakens is a cocktail of parody, pop culture and puzzle rooms, with a twist of pun. After a sell-out season at Sydney Fringe Festival 2016, and a successful run at Adelaide Fringe Festival 2017, The General Public Theatre Company is bringing Europe Won’t Fix You to Anywhere Theatre Festival! An immersive and replayable theatre experience with multiple endings. You can explore and observe as this world is unravelled, or be an active participant solving puzzles and challenging characters to ultimately decide the fate of the Game World. “Go to Europe they said. It will be fun they said. Well I went to Europe and came back fat, sad, and with a questionable rash that not even Savlon can fix. I guess it was a little less Eat Pray Love and a little more Eat Drink Cry.” Check website for details 11-13/5 @ 7.30pm The Game World has grown over the last six years at the Woodford Folk Festival. It is a world rich with history, lore and absurdity. Now it is branching out to defeat dullness wherever it can be found. Museum of Brisbane 12,19/5 @ 8pm, 13, 20/5 @ 5:30pm Flowers are all around me now / and so are all of you Olivia Roney & Charis Webb 100m | M $20 60m | M $8 A flood is on the edge of Brisbane. S#%t is about to get real. An immersive sensory experience of love lost and renewal The Flood is a philosophical drama/comedy. It follows four housemates, all twenty-something with their futures on the line. There’s Glenn, Karl, and the couple Damo and Sandra. For these unwitting heroes’ life lacks purpose, to each the world seems senseless and dysfunctional. Flowers are all around me now/and so are all of you, is written by poets Charis Webb, Olivia Roney and more. As a comedy The Flood is hilarious. Yet it’s only funny because humour allows it to probe. The Flood is no laughing joke. Queen Alexandra Home, Coorparoo 11-13/5 @ 7.30pm, 14/5 @ 6pm Flutter The Fairy & The Magical Wishing Gems This show is an immersive sensory experience, taking the words and putting them in a space to complement—a journey of love lost, transformation and renewal. Betty’s Espresso & Bar, West End 4, 11 @ 7.30pm The Food & Masculinity Double Bill Sharehouse Theatre Company 45m | G $15 An interactive show with singing, dancing, giant bubbles & more 120m | PG $20-$25 May Contain Traces of Nuts/Immaculate Confection Step into the the enchanted world of Flutter the Fairy as she entertains with an interactive stage show suitable for all ages, boys, girls and adults alike. The Food & Masculinity Double Bill is a quirky exploration of youth, manhood and coming of age through the eyes of young Brisbane playwrights Share House Theatre Company (Nuts) & Josh Lyons (Confection). There will be ribbons to twirl and bubbles to pop, songs to play and a Greedy Goblin to stop. Merchandise stall available for all your fairy desires. Both shows have different casts and set but are linked in their uses of food to tackle complex ideas in an accessible way. Set in Old Petrie Town, come and enjoy the Sunday markets amongst a beautiful backdrop of Ancient Moreton Bay figs trees and heritage buildings, all coming to life from 8am-2pm. It’s filled with energy, partying, passion, and most importantly, conversation. Bedouin Brew, Rocklea 4,5,12,13,14,15/5 @ 7pm Wantok Multicultural Centre, Old Petrie Town 7,14,21/5 @ 11am Jenny Wynter Fusion Flipside Circus 60m | M $25 One Woman. No Plan. Many Songs. Fully Made Up! is Jenny Wynter’s new improvised cabaret show, where she plays a veteran cabaret performer performing all of her greatest glittering career hits in a night of stories and songs, monologues and memories … which are all inspired by your suggestions. With the eclectic vintage decor of Woolloongabba’s Can You Keep A Secret as backdrop, this show is innovative, experimental and guaranteed to never be the same twice… ¬¬¬¬¬ “Jenny Wynter is pure joy. My face hurts.” TalkFringe Can You Keep a Secret, Woolloongabba 11-13/5 @ 7.30pm Sunshine Coast Fully Made Up! An Improvised Cabaret Check Listing It is at this moment they drop into the centre of the 2011 Brisbane Flood. There with the waters rising, they are forced to reconsider their outlooks on life and the nihilistic holes they have each fallen into. The situation demands they have no other choice. Experiencing poetry is about more than just the words; it’s about the coffee shop you read it in, the people you read it to, the smells and sounds. Most importantly, it’s the way it allows us to affect each other, a kind of raw vulnerability that opens us up to the possibilities of living. 60m | G $0-$25 Mackay A tempting smorgasbord of art forms with a big serve of circus Flipside Circus’ performance troupe presents Fusion, a dynamic performance where traditional and contemporary circus meets with theatre, music, cabaret, food, comedy, and more! Ipswich Timothy Horgan Fusion features some of Australia’s most outstanding young circus performers in an entertaining and surprising show for audiences from 2 to 1000 years. Children under 5 free! Flipside Circus, Alderley 12-14,19,20/5 @ 7.30pm Brisbane The Flood Get Your Affairs In Order Game of Love Workshop Foxxy Dancer & Robert J Emily McConochie 45m | PG $10-$15 150m | 18+ $15-$30 A Playful and Powerful Experience A Comedic Eulogy This experiential game is an exploration into the dynamics which play out between couples. Prepare yourself for a fun, immersive and disarming insight into how you play the Game of Love in your relationship. Features two up-and-coming Brisbane Comedians who brought you Tarnished Tiaras in 2016. Come dressed in character costume (optional) or just rock up. Be ready to play, or just watch from the sidelines. For all couples and singles. (18+) An enriching and immensely beneficial ‘experience’. Not to be missed! Toowoomba 4/5 @ 6.30pm Brisbane 6, 7, 13/5 @ 6.30pm Ipswich 7/5 & 12/5 @ Midday & 7pm Gold Coast 14/5 @ 3.30pm & 19/5 @ 7pm Their new show is all about the funny side of mortality. Besides being witty and clever, Emily McCool’s comedy has been described as “being able to take audiences with her to places they might otherwise fear to tread” (Steven Morgan). This show enters such places. Kath Marvelley describes her comedy as bridging the line between the morbid and the silly. Take the darkness and shine a spotlight on it and laugh at your fears. Nothing and everything is serious in this show. Brathouse Factory, Woolloongabba 12-13/5 @ 7pm Hard Boiled Dick: Boiled Harder Edge Improv Heavenly Hijinx Drace Illusionist 60m | G $25 20 The detective without a clue is back - and he brought a friend. 2 actors, 3 musicians. They haven’t got a clue. Get ready to experience the smoky speakeasies, dimly lit alleys and forbidden secrets of noir detective movies. Every show is different, as one actor takes on the roll of the detective – and the other plays… everyone else. The femme fatale, the squealing snitch, shifty cop – who is behind the sinister conspiracy the dick is trying to unravel? Who is pulling the strings? You are! Accompanied by the Over Easy Trio, the actors will create a wholly original noir masterpiece from your suggestions. So join us at the Padre Bar as they try to to unravel your mystery! Padre Bar, Woolloongabba 9,10,12,16,17,19/5 @ 7.30pm, 19/5 @ 9pm Hiraeth 60m | 5+ $17-$20 The Best Show (not) on Earth! Step inside a magical world of illusions and mayhem where you decide the answer to the age-old question… Will good triumph over evil? Join the quirky, but loveable, fallen angel Drewcifer on a ‘pick-your-own path’ theatre adventure. Laugh, cry and be amazed as Drewcifer uses every trick (literally) under his belt to persuade the archangel Joelle to join him on the dark side. This event is not suitable for children ages 0-5. All children must be accompanied with an adult. The Dark Magician, Ipswich 18 & 19/5 @ 6pm & 8pm Hot Cult Moi Productions The Sui Ensemble 75m | M $20 60m | TBC $15 a longing, a home-sickness, for a place you cannot go.... Go Back To What Feels Right! What becomes of the broken hearted? Come closer, we will show you…. Our days are becoming so busy here in the city. Sometimes it takes a bit of reminding to just stop, and savour the little joys of existence. This is going to be that reminder. Hiraeth is a startling work of narrative-driven sideshow, dark clowning and circus arts like you have never seen them before. A curious blend of pain defiance, circus aerials and storytelling, this show talks about the terrible hunger of beautiful broken things, and the rending required to mend a damaged heart. The SUI Ensemble presents Hot Cult. Go back to what feels right. Hot Cult contains a simple molecular blend of nerve and talent, now with twice the talent for good measure! Hiraeth is a vision in broken glass and white facepaint, a haunting dreamscape, a series of vignettes that delve into the tantra of nightmares. Walk softly, and make sure you don’t fall behind. Our signature, authentic, chic SUI style is back for our new experiential performance experience. It’s ergonomically designed to fit right in your heart. So get yours today! Book now! Flipside Circus, Alderley 19-21/5 @ 8.30pm East Brisbane Bowls Club 11-14, 18-21/5 @ 7pm Hot Desk Riot How Far Do You Wanna Go? Macabre Theatre Company Lorikeet Players 60m | PG $25 60m | PG $15-$20 A musical theatre comedy World Premiere Macabre Theatre Company presents a musical theatre comedy that explores the lives of three office workers who are under-valued, under-appreciated, under-paid and over their petty existence. In the middle of nowhere, Lucas and his guide dog Brutus (played by a human) meet Khadija while waiting for the bus to Birdsville. They are joined by Kevin, who lives nearby. Cath the cranky bus driver, however, doesn’t want to let them aboard. Outback Queensland is relocated to inner-city Brisbane for this world premiere. The combination of quirky comedy, soulful self-discovery and melodic movement will enthral any audience who has felt the keen sting of office politics. So pick up those personal effects and let the Hot Desk Riot begin. Secret Location, Hervey Bay 11,12,13/5 @ 7.30pm Join us for a hilarious adventure and quirky love story with a mysterious twist. Bring your own folding chair and expect to be moved for this part-promenade play. Written and directed by Gaulier-trained clown Marissa Ker. Dramaturgy by Genevieve Butler. ** Wheelchair accessible venue…Stay tuned for details of AUSLAN interpreted performance Woolloongabba Substation 12,15-17,[email protected], 14,20/5@2pm, 13@5pm I Dare Ya! Fiona McComb 60m (18+) $25 Watch as Comedy Hypnotist Dizzy guides his volunteers through fifty shades of pleasure. Or experience the most taboo show of the Anywhere Theatre Festival yourself, to unleash your basic instinct. Please note: To protect people’s privacy no photography or video recordings will be allowed during the show. Simply Erotix, Stafford 6/5 @ 8pm When we think of ceramics, our minds usually flash back to great-grandma’s pretty, fragile tea-set that we were forbidden to touch and only came out for ‘good’. Entitled I Dare Ya!, this interactive ceramics installation by local artist, Fiona McComb, is designed to provoke your inner child and raise questions about how you choose to interact with art. Is art only to be looked at and not touched? Is it to be lauded and preserved? Can you bring yourself to play with art, rearrange it — even break it? Fiona will be on hand at the installation to discuss her work and answer any questions. Page Furnishers, Pomona 13,14/5 @ 8am to 4pm In Search of Silence Queensland Academies Creative Industries Sunshine Coast If Only Interactive sculpture installation Michael Schubert 30m | PG $FREE 30m | PG $15 How would you feel if you raised a murderer? An experiential quest for silence. Could you forgive your child if they killed an innocent human being or would you fight to keep them in jail. If they used the butcher knife for more than one reason would you still invite them over for dinner? Would you let a murderer back into their childhood home? Join a small group in a quest to find silence. Creatives include Ashlinn Theroux, Isabel Ruiz, Genevieve Sansoni, Chloe Mayes and Abbey Wall. Quest with award-winning documentary maker Michael Schubert (In Search of Silence) to explore the boundaries of silence in an engaging 30 minute event. Woolloongabba Substation 6-9/5 @ 5.30pm Check Listing Hypnogasm is a risqué hypnosis show, that promises fun for both him and her. What is silence? Is it simply the absence of sound? Are there any sounds in your head? Books@Stones, Stones Corner 13 & 20/5 @ 6pm & 7.30pm Mackay Experience the taboo! 8am-4pm | G $FREE Ipswich Dizzy Magic Brisbane Hypnogasm It Could Be Verse It’s Not Easy Being Green Robin Archbold 30m | 18+ $28.75 120m | PG $10 Poetry and storytelling for beginners to pros(e) Emotionally-charged, high-energy cabaret with a twist Sunshine Coast Spoken Word’s monthly event is a riotous time hosted by award-winning performance poet and storyteller Robin ‘Archie’ Archbold, with open mic for all standards, and surprise appearances from poetry bigshots of all types. “Karen’s sublimely talented approach will have you glued to her performance.” – Barry Stone The venue is Homegrown Cafe’s roasting shed in The Lane at Palmwoods in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. All novice performers receive a standing ovation—in fact, just ask for one if you need it (audience members as well), and you shall receive one. Wild, wacky and sometimes very moving wordsmithery, and fine food and drink in a beautiful venue. Homegrown Cafe, The Lane, Palmwoods 20/5 @ 2-4pm Johnny Who And His Electric Kazoo Jack Pacey It’s Not Easy Being Green is a light-hearted trip deep into the twisted rabbit hole of the human psyche. As passionate as it is funny, the show will inspire, entertain and start that conversation we all need to have with ourselves and with each other. Join Karen and legendary jazz/blues pianist Jeff Usher in the intimate setting of Woolloongabba vintage boutique and lounge bar, Can You Keep A Secret. All tickets include a complimentary drink upon arrival. Can You Keep A Secret, Woolloongabba 9,16/5 @ 7.30pm 14/5 @ 2.30pm Junkyard Wormhole ByDaan Bevan and Evi Ruz 30m | G $FREE 22 Karen Lee Roberts 40m | M $15 Come see me be lonely Two garbage monsters discover the world is ending An absurdist comedy piece about abandonment and isolation performed on a beach. Two garbage monsters discover the world is ending. Through a series of trashy songs, recycled jokes and a refusal to give in to the compactor, will they uncover the meaning of life? Exploring the inner workings of the brain when left to its own devices and what absurd frightening realities occur when we are forced to be confronted by ourselves. Follow Johnny on his quest to find the electric kazoo. Prepare your bodies for a night of puppetry, cabaret, live music and hilarity. We’ll blow the lid off your bin. Bedouin Brew, Rocklea 9-11,16-18/5 @ 7pm (Doors open 6.30pm) Or any meaning at all. Breakwater Park/ Foreshore Waterloo Esp, Wynnum 8 & 13/5 @ 5pm Key Insights To Nearby Galaxies Tessa Middleton 35m | PG $18-$20 Lane Sounds Little Lane Studios 240m | M $15 A story about literal star-crossed lovers A celebration of locally produced music In the wake of the explosion of a star, two galaxies must race the clock to discover a way to escape their oncoming doom. But is everything as it seems? Or are they being manipulated, forced to fulfil some alternative plot? Key Insights to Nearby Galaxies is a story about space, friendship and love. This is literally a story about two star-crossed lovers. Get down to an evening of live music. Be entertained amongst the urban landscape and soak up the creative vibes of Wood St Laneway. Experience this novel industrial nook where music, art and imagination were meant to play together. From its beginnings at the Festival of Australian Student Theatre with Backyard Theatre Collective, Key Insights to Nearby Galaxies has been revised, reworked and rewritten to become the debut production of Parallax Collective. There’s space, there’s love, there’s live music and there’s glitter. Woolloongabba Substation 5/5 @ 6.30pm, 9,11/5 @ 7pm, 13/5 @ 1pm & 7.30pm Enjoy the ride as handpicked musicians share there heart made music. A journey from laid back acoustic sounds to uplifting electronica with a good dose of soul in the mix. The evening will feature the long-awaited debut of homegrown husband & wife team The Stamptons. Sixteen years in the making, they will bring together their love of melodic electronica and songbird vocals. Wood St Laneway, Mackay 20/5 @ 6.30pm-10.30pm The Last Ginger Julie Stewart Late Nights With Anywhere Anywhere Theatre Festival 30m | 18+ $12 - $17 180m | 18+ $FREE Come, bask in the flame The post show place to catch up Anywhere Scarletta lives 100 years in the future, where the name Scarlett is outdated and redheads are otherwise extinct. Get to know the performers that make Anywhere Theatre Festival great by joining us for a drink or two at some of our favourite hosts in Brisbane! As the last ginger left on Earth, Scarletta is seen as the epitome of human beauty and desire. Allow yourself to be entranced into a world that views beauty as it’s most desirable trait – where allure is defined by fiery red hair. It’s an open invitation for artists and audience every Friday and Saturday night...you never know who you’ll meet there... Allow yourself to be entranced into a world that views beauty as it’s most desirable trait – where allure is defined by fiery red hair. Different Brisbane location every Friday & Saturday night 9ish til late Spring Hill Studio, Spring Hill 19/5 @ 8.15pm, 20&21/5 @ 8pm Let Them Eat Cake Act/React 50-60m | M $15 60m | PG $20 Using feminine power to empower Comedy sharper than the guillotine Join Funk, Soul, Reggae Duchess Ling Jay in airing out her dirty laundry. Ling Jay will take you on a ride with one of her laundromat sessions as she “Now has Sh*T to say” (As quoted from one of her original songs ‘Funking Around’). With her energetic and emotive performance style, you will be in for a good night of original music with a couple of covers. Versailles can be a mean place, especially for a mime. The Golden Pig Cooking School, Newstead 11-13 @ 7.30pm Ashleigh Djokic Little Seeds Little Scenes Sunshine Coast Let It Be Little Seed Theatre Company 25m | PG $15 Saving the world, one bee at a time Let it Be is a theatrical production that combines lives performance and animation to share the story of a girl who wants to save the world, one bee at a time. The story follows Bobi, a young woman with a big heart. Too big, some would say. When Bobi sees a story on the news about the mass extinction of bee populations, she sets out on a quest to save them all. Accompanied by her friend, Fig, they both learn hard lessons about what it means to care so much in a world where there is so much to care for. East Brisbane Bowls Club 11-14/5 & 18-21/5 @ 6.30pm Check Listing WaterSpirit Laundromat, Kangaroo Point 11/19/5 @ 7.30pm In this interactive farce, Pierre will call on you to help him survive intrigue, bribery and incriminating objet d’art. This performance will take place in the gorgeous surrounds of The Golden Pig Cooking School, and all tickets include delicious cake, made on site. 60m | G $FREE Mackay Having already performed at a laundromat early this year, Ling Jay looks to further explore this unique concept and develop this further in the future to showcase her music and also feature other artists. But when Pierre finds himself in the middle of a battle of wits between Hugo, a wealthy and influential aristocrat with an inconvenient secret, and Celeste, an ambitious widow with a nose for scandal, the powdered wigs are sure to start flying. As a preview to the following week’s Romeo and Juliet in the Botanical Gardens in Cooroy, Little Seed Theatre Company actors will be performing many things Shakespeare in Peregian’s Village Square. It will be the perfect way to treat mum on Mothers day; relax with a blanket on the grass, source food and drink from the various shops and enjoy these excerpts from a variety of Shakespeare’s plays. Ipswich Alinta McGrady Grab a picnic and come on down! Village Square, Peregian Beach 14/5 @ 9am Brisbane Laundromat Sessions with Ling Jay Loud And Clear Communify Machans Beach Pop-Up Gallery Melissa Trommestad Two Days $FREE 120m | PG $10-$15 Come and experience the special joy that singing with a group of people can bring Learn to breathe in harmony. Explore your voice with a variety of songs from home and abroad. For the joy of it ! Get Your Art On! The 2nd Machans Beach Pop-up Gallery will present works by local artists. Vote in our People’s Choice Awards and enjoy meeting Artists face to face in our Main Gallery or discover something special on our satellite Pop-up Gallery Art trail. We will be winding up the shows at 2pm on Sunday and gathering at the pub on our Esplanade, O’Sheas, to announce our People’s Choice Awards and to formally conclude our community event. Ithaca Hall, Red Hill 4,11,18/5 @ 11am Tuckers St, Machans Beach, Cairns 6/5 @ 6.30pm-11.30pm, 7/5 8am-2pm The Maids MANIA Mad Women on the Shore L’art De Cirque 90m | 18+ 90m | M $15-$20 24 $35 ($40 at door) Are you brave enough to play the game? A world torn between glamour and grunge Mad Women on the Shore presents a provocative classic: Genet’s The Maids. Every night two downtrodden maids transcend reality by enacting the ritualised murder of Madame, their wealthy young mistress. Will they ever be able to complete their deadly ritual on time, or will they simply wither away in the wake of Madame’s kindness? Step into the manic world of MANIA! A tantalising cabaret show; but not as you know it! The Maids is theatrical, erotic, disturbing and deliciously poetic: a dramatic ritual, an examination of power and domination, and an erotic dance of death. Join the two maids as they risk all to fulfil their darkest desires. Join us on a tantalising journey and discover the glamour and grunge that is MANIA! This strictly adults only show is sure to entice. Woolloongabba Art Gallery 9-13/5 @ 7.30pm Medusa Featuring breathtaking feats of strength, flexibility and balance. MANIA is an ultra modern fusion of circus and dance, showcasing Dazzling light displays tied together with Raw Fetish Burlesque and Boylesque. The Fox Hotel, South Brisbane 13/5 @ 7.30pm The Imperial Hotel, Eumundi 19/5 @ 7.30pm Middle Class White Boy Geordie McGrath Magnetic North Theatre Company 75m | 18+ $18 60m | PG $18 Even the stars turned their eyes from the fall of Medusa. Finally having our voices heard She was the first to stand the trial of public opinion for her own rape. This monster, this fearful weapon, she was human once. Enter Medusa’s cave where the waves of blood or tears have left it damp, dark and almost forgotten. Every cabaret festival seems to be full of irreverent rich white 20-somethings singing their popular political opinions. Listen. This show is for all the Minchin/Burnham/Sammy J inspired masses who think they’re changing the game by writing comedy songs about refugees and politicians. Hear this story before its last flickering shadows bleed away. It’s a satirical musical cabaret that satirises satirical musical cabarets. The Basement, East Brisbane Bowls Club 11-14/5 & 18-20/5 @ 9pm The Milk Factory, South Brisbane 17/5 @ 7.30pm Midsummer The Miscreants Present Underground Productions Presented by The Miscreants 60m | MA15+ $15 A group of climate refugees find each other in a bar to see out the end of the world. “We drink, dance, make art and f#%k all while the world falls apart. The platform under our very feet splinters irreparably while we jump up and down trying to learn how to fly away”. No one wants to see this show. And that’s the point. Every day of our lives we commit to the ultimate performance simply by going about our days like nothing’s wrongs. Maybe it is time to be Chicken Littles and scream that the sky is falling? But for now come laugh and forget your woes – the bartender is pouring another round and the dancers are limbering up. 80m | 18+ $20 Brisbane’s favourite surrealists will be meeting with you shortly Join them in The Shed for 80 minutes of the oddest theatre and audiovisual experience that the Queensland Police Service will allow. You’ll be in for a night of surreal comedy that critics have described as “a night of surreal comedy”. Tyler’s Shed, Annerley 4-6/5 @ 7pm Imperial Hotel, Nambour 12 @ 8pm Padre, Woolloongabba 6-8/5 & 13-15/5 @ 7pm Music & Lyrics with Naomi & Hannah Naomi & Hannah Explore the Museum after dark! A vibrant journey through original music Get along to Museum of Brisbane on Friday night and enjoy extended opening hours! Songwriter Duo Naomi and Hannah take you on a vibrant journey through original music. Events include: After dark Clock Tower Tours Browse current exhibitions, Pop-up bar to enjoy a drink, Acoustic music, Hands-on craft workshop, Star weaving for One Million Stars, $5 parking after 4.30pm in King George Square carpark! Watch as these artists masterfully weave through genres, stories and lyrical poetry. Fusing together their unique and passionate sounds, prepare to be captivated by a performance that will leave you wanting more. Canvas, Woolloongabba 7 & 11/5 @ 7.30pm (Doors open 7pm) More information coming soon! Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Friday nights @ 5pm until 7pm Bison Bar Musical Reunion 60m | PG $15-$20 180m | 18+ $FREE A homage to a regional Eistedfodd The local song contest with international appeal Musical Reunion Cabaret is a nostalgic retrospective about the phenomenon of local eisteddfods and the long lasting bonds that form. Nambour gets its Eurovision on at The Bison Bar with a battle of 4560’s most talented songwriters. Musical Reunion are a group of performers who found their musical roots at the Rockhampton Eistedfodd and with a few of their friends, will share the music and the stories that made it such a magical experience. “We’ve always loved Eurovision and thought why not have our own competition right here in Nambour?” said Bison Bar co-owner Peter Townson. Paddington Hall, Paddington 6/5 @ 7pm Mackay Sunshine Coast NamVision Musical Reunion Cabaret Ipswich No need to book – just turn up! Check Listing 90m | 18+ $15 120m | G $FREE “Every week we get approached by local songwriters for shows at the bar and the material they’re writing blows us away. It’s only a matter of time until someone from the local region gets international recognition.” NamVision will start at 7pm at The Bison Bar, 52-64 Currie St, Nambour. The Bison Bar, Nambour 13/5 7pm-10pm Brisbane Museum of Brisbane: Friday Nights Nomad Oh Lady Be Good Caitlin Strongarm Melissa Western 15m | G $FREE 75m | PG $35 Every performance is different. No words are spoken. The great chanteuses of the 20th century This is not a show you can book for. Oh Lady Be Good is back in Brisbane following sell-out seasons in the UK and packed crowds at the Queensland Cabaret Festival. Enjoy a feast of classic jazz and blues featuring audience favourite Melissa Western and her hot jazz band. A red panel van will arrive randomly at the beginning of various Anywhere Theatre Festival shows, venues or festival hotspots. It will be parked for fifteen minutes before it drives away. What happens in that time is anyone’s guess. An interactive, pop-up performance roving across South East Queensland. Check website for performances at Suitcase Rummage in King George Square, Toowoomba, Ipswich and more The One Room Of The House Ursa Major Theatre Association You love iconic jazz-femme legends including Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Bessie Smith, Peggy Lee and Eartha Kitt but do you know their fascinating personal stories? ‘Great storyteller, feisty, highly enjoyable; fantastic instrumentalists … Western is a force of nature’ ¬¬¬¬BroadwayBaby – ‘Inspiring’ ¬¬¬¬ThreeWeeks Australian Modern, Carina 12-13/5 @ 7.30pm Panopticon Queensland Academies Creative Industries 25-30m | PG $FREE 60m | MA $20 26 The One Room of the House is a series of seven monologues all set in the smallest room of the house, the toilet. Each monologue explores one of the seven deadly sins and their place in today’s society. Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath, Sloth, Envy and Greed. Are they still considered the big bad? Or do they now have a celebrated place in us all? University of Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs 6,7/5 @ 3pm & 6pm, 13,14,20,21/5 @2pm & 5pm Nights On Ocean Market, Maroochydore 12/5 @ 6-9pm Polly Honeycombe the layers of a lie panopticon Nounhistorical noun: panopticon; plural noun: panopticons a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed. QUT Kelvin Grove 5-7/5 @ 7.30pm Professor Plum, In The Parlour, With The Pineapple Lucy Czerwinski & Katie Pierce 3b creative 120m | PG $15 50m | PG $10 1760? 1960? Nothing really changes! Classic. Laugh, cry, (maybe) even...die! A riotous romp – a mix of periods past. Think the ‘Janes’ on steroids - Austen and Fonda that is ! Wonderful words and music. Deliciously designed sets and costume. You are cordially invited to attend a dinner party of strangers. Polly comically deals with the effect of novel-reading on not only young women, but on various members of polite 18th century English society. Polly Honeycombe, a novel-reading girl ‘gone wild’, is a young woman who reads many novels from the circulating library. Her expectations for her own future are shaped by the actions and characters in these novels. She tells her nurse that “a novel is the only thing to teach a girl life, and the way of the world.” ** BYO nibbles and refreshments. Under the stars so dress warm. ** The Courtyard, The Arcade, Buderim 19 & 20/5 @ 6.30pm Take a seat at Kate and Lou’s dining table and allow two suburban chicks to pay homage to their favourite things; murder mystery, our lord and saviour Agatha Christie, Cluedo and Wine. So join us in our dining room at the Paddington Substation for a good old fashioned murder dinner party where you will experience the gourmet delights of unexpired food we found in the pantry. You will laugh, cry, and inevitably (maybe) die! Paddington Substation 13-17/5 @ 7.30pm Puberty! The Uncut Edition Ben Trigger Queensland Seasons Circle Janet Oliver 90m | M $25 PG $FREE 1 Man, 3 Teenagers and a hell of a lot of hormones! Through royal eyes, the seasons move and meld Direct from Short + Sweet Festival Brisbane come the longer, more inappropriate Puberty! The Uncut Edition! An exhibition/installation of a series of digital projection photographs that take a quirky, yet beautiful, view of Queensland’s seasonal changes: Puberty is one of those things people would never want to relive but believe me you want to relive this show! In this new work Trigger will uncover, reimagine and submerse the audience in the ever-so-awkward experience of puberty. The year begins with the sultry, wet or dusty, dry heat of an Australian summer. Whether it’s a drought or a flood – it’s hot. Damn hot. This Monarch, a symbol of the enduring passion and endurance of the Queenslander, is not mired in a royalist past, but honours all of her past lives. She meets the challenges and the dichotomy of the Queen’s Land and marches into the 21st century with wicked humour. Her Pineapple Sceptre poised in defiance beneath the glow of her Summer Beauty, umbrella at the ready, she moves on through the seasons - one measured, royal step at a time. Following the lives of 3 teenagers you will be drawn in by their individual experiences, their gut-wrenching failures and their extremely awkward sexual deviants. Get ready for a night that will encapsulate your mind and past experiences. Woolloongabba Substation 4 & 6/5 @7pm and 5,6/5 @ 9pm The Race The Kuttabul Hotel, Kuttabul 5/5 @ 6pm, 6/5 10am-midnight, 7-8/5 10am-9pm Raconteurs & Balladeers by Sven Swenson Pentimento Productions 60m | PG $20-$23 Presented by the Brickhouse Cafe nestled behind Doomben racetrack in what was “the blue collar racing suburb of yesteryear”, join Scales as she takes you on a silky speed journey of Brisbane horseracing history with an undeniably hilarious take on today’s world and how we all fit in… Or don’t. Brickhouse Cafe, Doomben 17-20/5 @ 6.30pm These days, since being discharged, these veterans of the war in Afghanistan reunite to rehearse the repertoire of their defunct garage band and relive memories that can’t be shared with others in their lives. Tonight, an absentee comrade will return to the fold and it will not be as easy to ignore the ghost of the dead soldier who haunts every reunion, or to gloss over the mystery of his death and the cover up that followed. Toowong Bowls Club 4-6, 9,11-13, 16, 18-20/5 @ 7pm Red Dust, Black Silk Sunshine Coast Regan Lynch Does It In Public Jemloco Images and Six Foot Circus Regan Lynch 120m | PG $FREE 60m | 18+ $15 A landscape photography and circus collaboration Young Dumb & Full of Comedy This event will showcase the work of Jemloco Images and Six Foot Circus, who are collaborating on a series of photographic works placing circus skills within the stunning landscapes surrounding Mt Isa. Regan Lynch is young, dumb and full of comedy in this pageant of sexed-up idiocy. The work will be presented at an exhibition opening event incorporating live aerial performance by Six Foot Circus students. This is an evening not to be missed, as a space within the North West Gymnastics building is transformed into a unique exhibition and performance venue showcasing some of Mount Isa’s hidden and emerging creative talents. NorthWest Gymnastics, Mount Isa 19/5 @ 7pm Check Listing The Race is the latest work of Brisbane artist Elizabeth Scales. Described by Aussie Theatre as “larger-than-life, high camp, high fidelity and even higher energy”, by AbsoluteTheatre as “exceptionally good” and by his Dad as “not s#%t”, Regan’s ready to blow you (and your socks) off with an hour of funk guitar, punk ukelele, ribald burlesque and antiretroviral medication. So come along, and don’t be late! His opening is not to be missed. Sunday the 7th of May is a benefit night, with all proceeds from tickets donated to Open Doors Youth Service. Betty’s Espresso and Bar, South Brisbane 4-7, 10-14, 17-21/5 @ 7pm Mackay The Race. A satirical and witty insight into society and social ranking through the highly unpredictable world of horseracing. They lived together in a world few of us really know or ever truly understand, sometimes sleeping sitting up with only one another’s backs to lean on. All saw the best and worst in each other and some had to dig deep to find a reason to be prepared to die for the man standing next to him. Even if one grew to loathe another, still they would remain inescapably brothers forever. Ipswich “... And they’re off and racing!” 120m | M $30 Brisbane Libby Scales Released The Repairman Pepper Jane Loose Screw Theatre Troupe 100m | PG $10-$65 Pepper Jane makes an album A narrative and interpretive theatre performance of Pepper Jane’s double debut concept album, ‘Released‘ (Waiting and the Lost Art of Devotion/ Starting Now), while the album is being recorded and or possibly written. This is your chance to be ‘that human‘ permanently etched into the album who coughs at the wrong time, sings offkey in the singalong chorus, or who stars front and centre in one of the film clips. Pick up your keys because that song probably won’t make the cut: Kookaburra Queen, Brisbane City 6,11/5 @ 11.30am boarding for midday Reload Espresso Bar, Salisbury 16, 19, 20/5 @ 7pm & 20/5 @ 2pm Fire Station 101, Ipswich 6/5 @ 7pm & 7/5 @ 2pm Mapleton Hall, Mapleton 13/5 @ 7pm 60m | M $20 Are people around you broken? Do you wish you could do something more to help? Well you’re in luck. We will be running initial Repairman workshops so you can see for yourself what being a Repairman is all about. Demand to be fixed is on the rise and we need YOU to help us meet that demand. That’s right!. You, yes you, can become a Repairman and start helping the broken today. Yes, today! You’ll only need one training evening to know you’ll love the job. A show about being broken. Do you want the things that broke you to be taken away? Or are they such a part of you? Or are you tired of other people telling you you’re broken? What happens if you’re offered the opportunity to lose the things that broke you? Do you say yes? House Conspiracy, West End 4-7/5 @ 6.30pm reveal • react • resist Glenda Hobdell 60m | PG $FREE 28 a collaborative multidisciplinary performance by eCAN reveal • react • resist is a collaborative multidisciplinary performance work synchronising layers of sound, vision and temporal elements. This exciting ephemeral new media work marks the first larger-than-life improvisational installation by a group of local arts practitioners who are also arts educators. Some do! eCAN – Glenda Hobdell, Perry Hobdell, Sam Neill, Catherine Hodby, Karen Hurford, Kirrillie Ewald, Michelle Ribot, Annabel Dorey This is a free event! (Gold coin donation) Jenny Wynter reveals the 2017 Anywhere Theatre Festival Guide at the Spring Hill Reservoirs. Photograph by Stuart Hirth. The Parish Hall, Mackay 6/6 @ 6.30pm Romeo and Juliet in the Noosa Botanic Gardens Little Seed Theatre Company 150m | PG $20-$25 Little Seed Theatre Company will take Romeo and Juliet to the beautiful Noosa Botanic Gardens. Staged within the 250 seat roman style amphitheatre, nestled on the shoreline of Lake McDonald and surrounded by the gardens, these talented young performers will, as directed by Johanna Wallace, bring this iconic story to life. Whilst keeping within the traditions of Shakespeare’s time, Johanna will no doubt direct with the creative and quirky flair that Little Seed performances are known for. Led by Tallow Montague, playing Romeo and Jacqueline Elley as Juliet, this cast will highlight the creativity and professionalism of Little Seed’s Masterclass Plus students. Cooroy Amphitheatre, Noosa Botanical Garden 20-21/5 @ 3pm Serf City Wunderfools 60m | PG $FREE Locked out of the housing market - come join us at Serf City Picture yourself in a post-apocalyptic world, where the corporate machine has run rampant – jobs are a thing of the past and no one can afford to buy a house. Even the owners of a card board box can be very house proud. Only the Wunderfools can make you laugh, cry and scratch your brain all at once in this absurd microcosmic glimpse of the near future. Lower End Of Boundary Street, West End 13,14/5 @ 4pm Signs Vacant Collective 90m | PG $FREE Come join the committee Five unlikely students at an all-boys’ school are brought together to work on the graduating class’ yearbook. Through weekly meetings, these teens must learn to work together despite each of their differences. Come to listen or share your stories with Red Thread Playback as we spontaneously re-enact what we hear through movement, music, metaphor and play. Signs delves into themes of identity, discovery and communication. A narrative that holds a mirror up to each character and their personalities, values and ambitions; encouraging them to identify parts of themselves in those around them. Merthyr Road Uniting Church, New Farm 14/5 @ 7.30pm Redcliffe State High School 18/5 @ 6pm, 20 & 21/5 @ 7:30pm, 21/5 @ 1:30pm Somewhere Else But Now Aaron Austin-Glen 150m | G $15 60m | PG $18 Picnic, full moon and crazy good talent A performative bicycle adventure from London to Brisbane Sleepy Old Moon and other stories: spoken, animated, drawn and painted. A tale of one person’s bicycle journey from London to Brisbane and the complex relationship we all have with ‘staying connected’ while trying to escape from the modern world. BYO picnic for a full moon in the garden of award winning artist Lynda Black; external studio wall is the backdrop for hand-drawn charcoal animations to accompany Dylan Sparks extraordinary poems, fully performed, to live music; wander through a house-gallery full of paintings and drawings; plus more poetry & film/animations Aaron Austin-Glen travelled through 20 countries during his year-long adventure only to return to his childhood home in Mitchelton with some unanswered questions. Join Aaron in the very spot where the real journey ended as he reconnects his memories with the digital proofs and separates fact from fiction. 8 Lenske Lane, Cooran 10/5 @ 5pm 35 Suez St, Mitchelton 5,6,12,13/5 @ 7.30pm Songstress: Poetic Midwife Little Red Cape Productions 60m | PG $25 A night of mirth and merriment, song and spoken word Let no one hold you back, let nothing stop you. Adventures, drives, trips, crossings, trudges and gradual awakenings the songstress will take you on a journey with the official seal of her ‘good mother’s milk’. She goes off in all directions. But it is pleasurable. The Laugh of the Midwife is not to be missed. Written & Performed by Lisa Smith *City & River views included! Free glass of wine on arrival. St. Vincent’s Hospital, Kangaroo Point 20/5 @ 7.30pm Spontaneity - Improvisation Classes Impromafia 8 weeks | PG $160-$190 This course is an introduction to the concepts and skills of improvisation explored through games, exercises and discussion in a safe, friendly and playful environment. ImproMafia is proud to have taught impro to everyone from academics to models for over eight years! Please note: this course takes place every Tuesday night, 6:15-9:15pm, from 2 May to 20 June (eight weeks). Fee is for the full course. All participants will be invited to showcase their skills at a student show at the end of the workshop series. Jubilee Hall, Bardon Starting 2/5 @ 6.15pm or 6/5 @ 2pm for eight weeks Check Listing Dylan Sparks, Lynda Black and friends Sunshine Coast Sleepy Old Moon and other stories Mackay The Mother is a symbol of nurturing, love and care. Join us this Mother’s Day as we explore the motherly support people have given us throughout our lives. When was a time that you felt nurtured by friends, family or the community? Perhaps there was a time when you weren’t? 60m | PG $17-$22 Ipswich With Red Thread Stories Brisbane Shades of Love: A Playback Performance Sugar! Sugar! Suitcase Rummage Suitcase Rummage Candy Shop Show Australia 60m/180m PG $27/$59-$96 300m | G $FREE A fabulous retro dance cabaret! We hope you can join us! Swing through the Retro eras with this dance cabaret featuring the fabulously sassy sugary delights from Candy Shop Show. Sugar, Sugar! plays homage to some of the best artists of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s with plenty of cheek, high-energy dance numbers, beautiful vocals and plenty of audience interaction! Suitcase Rummage is a mini scaled market with giant rewards; it promises to be everything that is a market without the hassle. Its about bringing a suitcase (or two!) filled to the brim with your goods and treats. Hosted by your favourite candies of the Retro era Miss Peppermint Twist, Miss Skittle, Miss Everlasting Gobstopper and Miss Starburst Original, these gals will knock your socks off with their close harmonies and incredible dance routines all supported by fabulous projections.** Kookaburra Queen show include a three course meal on the paddleboat and the show! Kookaburra Queen, Brisbane City 6, 20, 21/5 @ Noon & 11/5 @ 7pm Imperial Hotel, Eumundi 12, 13/5 @ 8pm TBC: The Basement Collective The Basement Collective You can be a part of the Rummage experience by selling wares or come along to buy some real beauties! There will be brilliant vintage, artwork, brica-brac, clothing, books, jewellery, seconds, hand-made, shoes, records, music, badges, cards, handmade paper, ……you name it! Come for a bargain, a swap, or an old fashioned haggle. Suitcase Rummage is not to be missed! Easy as pie. King George Square, Brisbane City 7 & 21/5 @ Noon to 5pm Tim Ross’ Man About The House Tim Ross 90m | PG Check website 60m | PG $12 30 A hidden drop of colour in a world of grey “Hilarious” - The Age The Basement Collective (TBC) is a secret illegal organisation founded by Gabe, Victoria and August (The Council) that gives teens like themselves a place where they can explore their own identity through the arts without suffering the penalties of the outside world (as long as they’re not caught). Within TBC there are smaller groups of performers who often work together to discover their art including a girl gang and a comic duo. Comedian, social commentator and mid 20th century modernist architecture tragic Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross performs his critically acclaimed Man About The House show in the backyard of a modernist inspired Sunshine Coast Beach house. When pressures increase from the outside world The Council feel forced to introduce new rules to TBC and subsequently create major issues within the organisation. As threats from the outside world draw nearer, The Council and Collective are tested to see who or what they will sacrifice to keep the organisation a Secret. Woolloongabba Substation 18,19,21/5 @ 6pm & 8pm, 20/5 @ 5pm Timber Dreams Joel Bow Productions For the last four years they have taken temporary possession of Architecturally significant buildings and skillfully blended storytelling, music and design in a mood breaking format that has seen them literally sell out houses across the globe. Marcus Beach 12/5 @ 7pm Lake Weyba 13/5 @ 2pm Maroochydore 13/5 @ 7pm Tortured Remixes & Other Experiments Topology 180m | PG $55 70m | PG $30 ($20 early bird) An incredible evening of luxurious cabaret Pop filtered through twisted musical minds Joel Bow Productions (2014 Mackay Festival of Arts Burlesque Ball, Dirty Martinis Burlesque, Band Jam, Burlesque in the Tropics, Man Songs) is pleased as bloody punch to be joining forces with Anywhere Theatre Festival in 2017! Topology’s lush music for strings, piano and sax has been driving music creativity in Australia for 2 decades. In celebration of their 20th anniversary, the Brisbane-based quintet will launch their 14th full-length album at the recently opened arts sanctuary in West End, House Conspiracy. Doors open @ 7pm and all proceeds from the bar go to Port of Mackay Rotary. Cabaret-style seating. Be entertained in the iconic Porters Timber Yard by cabaret and music theatre star Kurt Phelan (Dirty Dancing, American Idiot, Tender Napalm), Molley Rossetto (Man Songs, Sweeney Todd, Chicago), and Kyra Geoghegan (Australian premier of Bonnie and Clyde, Sweeney Todd, Owner operator of Aspire Performing Arts) with Sarah Rozekrans on piano. In Tortured Remixes, popular melodies are filtered through the creative minds of Topology’s composers, John Babbage, Robert Davidson and Bernard Hoey. The result: iconic tunes stretched, bent and scrambled (almost) beyond recognition, then reassembled into adventurous new works. The Saints, MC Hammer, The Beatles, Stevie Wright, Beyonce, Cold Chisel and many more, it’s the 60’s to the present like you’ve never heard them before. Porters, Mackay 6/5 @ 8pm (Doors open 7pm) House Conspiracy, West End 11 & 12/5 @ 7pm The Travelling Sisters The Trespassers @ Burchill Street The Travelling Sisters Presented by Barb Fordham 90m | PG $30 60m | PG $24 The Guardian’s Top Picks of the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 Cult hit The Travelling Sisters serve up a gang of tragically charming misfits. A side-splitting, red hot hour of ‘infectious silliness, impish cheek and harmonious musicality’ (The Scotsman), the trio create ‘a distinct otherworldly vibe’ (The List).Made up of a cavalcade of characters, physical comedy and surreal songs, The Travelling Sisters are a bloody good time. “Damn, these girls got soul. Or funk. Whatever you call that indefinable alchemy that means their sheer presence exudes fun and sass” ¬¬¬¬Chortle. “These women shine” – ¬¬¬¬ Funny Women Five Sisters Cafe & Bar, South Brisbane 4,5,6,18,19,21/5 @ 7.30pm Viva Italia, Ipswich 10/5 @ 7.30pm Triple Bill Get down to a night of folk, roots and country soul with Brisbane’s hottest new line-up The Trespassers. Featuring blistering vocals from Barb Fordham and Annie Morris (2015’s Anywhere Theatre Festival hit, Gritty Pearls) as well as rising Indie singer/ songwriter Georgia Neilsen. Backed by the driving, red-hot rhythm section of Neil Neilsen on bass, Dave Gilbert on skins and Evan Clarry on electric guitar, and packing a bootload of dubious one-liners. The Trespassers will break into your soul and steal your cheatin’ hearts. Bring your dancin’ boots. Australian Modern, Carina 6/5 @ 7pm for a 7.30pm star Unsettle Q Up The Coast Digi Youth Arts 75m | PG $12-20 Weekend at Barnie’s Barnie Duncan and Dani Cabs Queensland Museum, South Brisbane 18-20/5 @ 7pm Wild Women’s Tales Wild Women of the Sunshine Coast 60m | PG $15-$20 Physical comedians Barnie Duncan (MICF Best Newcomer nominee, 2015) and Dani Cabs (Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Nominee 2015) combine for the first time to bring you their tribute to the greatest movie about death ever made. Using the 80’s cult film as a launchpad, Cabs and Duncan bring to life… more like, resurrect this goofball one-joke masterpiece and ride it for all it’s worth. Weekend at Barnie’s is a wild mix of clowning, physical comedy and slapstick that will make even the most conservative audiences laugh out loud at the absurdity unfolding before their eyes. Check Listing Written and Directed by Alethea Beetson. Sound design by Declan Beetson. Sunshine Coast Majestic Cinema Foyer, Nambour 11-13, 18-21/5 @ 7:30pm, 14 & 21/5 @ 6.30pm The works created will offer audiences new interpretations and observations of cultural heritage collections and provide opportunities for the wider community to reflect on the role of communities within museums and galleries. 120m | PG $20 Mackay Separation Anxieties by Anthony Borsato is a one-man show. Roscoe wakes up frightened in the middle of the night to find there is no phone, no internet and no television. Volume by Tremayne Gordon debuted at DIY Festival 2015 followed by Sydney Fringe Festival 2016. It follows the meeting of two strangers and their turbulent journey to friendship during a music festival. ...k, originally devised in 2015 by USC drama students, questions how social media impacts human relationships with varying consequences. unsettle is a multi-arts project that provides an opportunity for established artists to mentor youth artists as they question, challenge and expose the colonial nature of cultural collections in galleries and museums. Spoken word celebrating the Wild Woman within Reimagining of belonging through courage, creativity and connection. Presented by the Wild Women of the Sunshine Coast. With guests: Ipswich Q Up The Coast have brought together 3 very different shows that explore the basic human need of connection. Digi Youth Arts will present a new theatre work as part of their long term residency at Queensland Museum. Author, Inga Simpson, Visual artist, Lynda Black, Note: For those wishing to eat before the show please arrive at least 2030mins prior to the start time. Singer/songwriter, Dear Willow Ben’s Burgers, West End 17,18,20,21/5 @ 7.15pm Cafe Create, Nambour 19/5 @ 6pm arrival for 6.30pm-8.30pm Celebratory drink on arrival plus canapés. Brisbane Opening new windows on the worlds of human connection 60m | PG $15 anywheretheatre.com #anywherefest Anywhere Theatre Festival Limited is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
