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QUEENSLAND THEATRE
2025 SEASON
Queensland Theatre has launched their 2025 season and the best news is, they now offer audio description across TWO performances in every production. This gives you the choice to attend on either a Friday evening at 7:30pm or a Saturday matinee at 2pm.
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Tactile tours are available, as always, 90 minutes before the show starts. Just let the team at Queensland Theatre know you'd like to join the tour. Friends and family are welcome, and all of it is free.
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The button below takes you to Queensland Theatre's season package page, to book 8, 6, 5, or 3 plays as a bundle to enjoy a discount and plan your social calendar early!​​
Is That You, Ruthie?
Written and Directed by Leah Purcell.
Wednesday 12 March 205
Show Starts 1:00pm
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Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Buthalangi and Munya’s story.
A mother and daughter’s journey back.
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Based on the books written by Dr Ruth Hegarty Is That You, Ruthie? (first published by the University of Queensland Press in 1999) and Buthalangi: A Maranoa Woman (published by Dr Ruth Hegarty in 2022).
Is That You, Ruthie? is a poignant exploration of a mother and daughter’s enduring connection; a deeply moving play that delves into the complex aftermath of a government removal policy that separated a mother (Ruby) and daughter (Ruthie) from 1930 to 1957, leaving scars that could never fully heal.
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The adaptation of Dr Ruth Hegarty’s David Unaipon award-winning novel Is That You, Ruthie? for the stage by Leah Purcell shares a personal and profound chapter of Australia’s truth-telling history. We witness a relationship forever altered by the dormitory system’s cruel legacy. Though they tried to rebuild what was lost, the bond between mother and daughter would never be the same.
Ruthie’s story – of separation from her mother – is not unique. What she endured, affected many young First Nations girls and boys across Australia.
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Is That You, Ruthie? is a raw and heartfelt portrayal of two souls navigating the depths of their shared history. It’s a story of resilience, courage, and the enduring human spirit. We delve into the complexities of family ties, and discover whether the estranged love of a mother and daughter can bridge the gaps that time and tragedy have carved.
An unforgettable and timely journey through the pages of Australia’s past.
Calamity Jane
Adapted by Ronald Hanmer and Phil Park from the stage play by Charles K. Freeman after Warner Bros. film written by James O’Hanlon
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 11 April 2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 12 April 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
Bille Brown Theatre, Montague Road, South Brisbane.
The raucous revival that celebrates the wildest woman in the Wild West.
Welcome to the rough-and-tumble town of Deadwood, where swaggering sharpshooter Calamity Jane is mocked and admired in equal measure. Deadly with a whip or a quip, her bluster and bravado mask a longing for something deeper.
Cabaret daredevil Naomi Price (Drizzle Boy, Ladies in Black) slips into Jane’s trail-worn boots for this rootin’ tootin’ unruly and unpredictable ride. Join Calamity’s piano-fuelled posse and pull up a stool at one of the on-stage saloon tables to be part of the action!
This revival has all your favourite numbers, including “Secret Love” and “The Black Hills of Dakota” but this ain’t Doris Day’s Calamity Jane, no siree. This stripped-back reimagining shucks off the buckskin and brings a barrelful of dirt and grit to the classic musical.
Cirque Alice
From the producers of "Illusionists", "Circus 1903" and "Le Noir!"
Presented by QPAC
Thursday 17 April 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm & 7:00pm​
​Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane
Cirque Alice – an extraordinary new show from the creators of the global smash hits – The Illusionists, Circus 1903 and Le Noir!
Step into magical ‘Wonderland’ as Cirque Alice reimagines Lewis Carroll’s classic adventures with breathtaking twists and astonishing, gravity-defying feats.
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Starring the greatest acrobatic performers from around the globe, this magnificent spectacle features stunning performances by mesmerising aerialists, mind-bending contortionists, exquisite puppetry and special guest musical and comedic artists – set against an enthralling soundtrack of newly arranged contemporary renditions of some of the world’s favourite classical hits.
A joyous acrobatic adventure filled with heart-stopping moments and unforgettable performances, Cirque Alice is a fantastical extravaganza for all ages!
Dictionary of Lost Words
Adapted by Verity Laughton from the novel by Pip Williams
Presented by QPAC
Saturday 10 May 2025
Tactile Tour 12:00pm
Show Starts 1:00pm.
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane
​Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words is brought to vivid life in this wildly popular stage adaptation by Verity Laughton. “Filled with humour and historical awareness” (Broadway World) and expertly directed by Jessica Arthur, it’s no wonder this play has become a runaway success.
It’s 1886 and the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled. Four-year-old Esme Nicoll has a front row seat. Well, she’s hiding under the sorting table, anyway. As her father and his male colleagues decide which words stay and which go, Esme collects the discarded scraps to compile her own far more magical dictionary. A sweeping historical tale, The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme from her childhood in the 1880s, into adulthood at the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the beginning of the First World War.
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This beloved modern classic, featuring Arkia Ashraf, Rachel Burke, Ksenja Logos, Angela Nica Sullen and Shannen Alyce Quan, is a beautiful and transportive reflection on the love between a daughter and her father and a spellbinding night of theatre.
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A best-selling multi-award winner (including the People’s Choice Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards) and chosen for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club, the book has been lauded as an “absorbing, quietly revolutionary novel”, “deeply, intrinsically kind [and] a profoundly comforting place to dwell” (The Age) and “a captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded” (New York Times).
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Adapted by Shake & Stir Theatre Co.
Presented by QPAC
Saturday 7 June 2025
Tactile Tour 11:30am
Show Starts 1:00pm & 7:00pm
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane
Alive on stage... The critically-acclaimed, theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic has electrified sold-out audiences in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Now, the monster returns.
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Victor Frankenstein, a grieving but brilliantly ambitious young scientist, pushes the boundaries of theory and morality to create a living being from the remains of the dead. But playing God has its consequences…
Shunned by society and plagued by an inherited sense of confusion and rage, Victor’s miracle of science becomes a monster that threatens to destroy everything his creator holds dear.
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Combining cutting edge production elements with the power of virtuosic storytelling, Frankenstein is a night of thrilling theatre of monstrous proportions – bringing Mary Shelley’s classic screaming into the 21st Century.
Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica
by David Williamson
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 13 June2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 14 June 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
Bille Brown Theatre, Montague Road, South Brisbane.
Odd couples don’t come much odder than Gary and Monica in this comedic gem from national treasure David Williamson, where double Gold Logie-winner Georgie Parker (Home and Away) and Glenn Hazeldine (Colin From Accounts) reprise their performances 15 years after its debut.
When a cultured inner-city aesthete hires a knockabout true-blue tradie to renovate her kitchen, she gets more than she bargained for. The pair argue about everything, including the kitchen sink, but when the witty banter turns to music, things heat up faster than Monica’s new six-burner cooktop!
She’s an embittered former classical violinist who loves Mahler more than life itself. He’s a glib former Country and Western singer now spinning tracks as DJ Rhinestone Rex. They have nothing in common except that they’re both middle-aged and single. But as the arrows fly and the digs land, will this duo discover they’re accidentally harmonising on their own sweet duet?