at the Judith
Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley Ph: 3872 9000 www.judithwrightcentre.com
16,17 February, 2006 Right Foot Down productions presents (Theatre Rehearsal Room)
The Sexy Detective Show
“It’s a sketch comedy show.”
“Really?” “Yes!”
Thrilling,
gripping, chilling, stunning, uncompromising, ingenious, inspired, edgy,
kinetic, exotic, frantic, dynamic, unparalleled, superlative, a tour de force,
drop-dead brilliant, theatrical Viagra. These are all buzz words. Feel free to use them when discussing the
Sexy Detective Show. Come watch them
perform feats of comedy, cunning, strength and skill on stage and screen.
28,29,30
March, 2006 Birdwing Lane Theatre
presents
The Fool’s Journey
“A town, a forest, a
king, a fool .... a fairy tale”
Book & Lyrics – Ben Cornfoot Music – Natalie Curley
Directed by Cienda McNamara
Somewhere in the future,
inside a bubble of air grows perhaps the last forest on earth - giver of life, nature’s
refuge - suddenly dying and nobody knows why. To save the bubble the forest
people, old crones all, must venture beyond the trees, and sneak by night into
the town where dwell that most feared of creatures – human beings! Can they
find one capable of love, before it is too late? Will their beautiful daughter
work it out? Can the hapless town fool even save himself, let alone the world?
This is eccentric, exciting, home-grown music theatre made for now.
12 April – 3rd series begins MAP
Theatre Co presents
Valley People
Wednesdays in the
Foyer, 12.20am and 1.20pm - bring your
lunch - shows approx 20 mins - FREE
Live soap opera! They saved Chinatown
from destruction last time, now even more impossible adventures and even more
improbable heroes act out – live – in the JWC foyer! Bring your lunch if you dare to eat during this jaw-dropping,
stomach-churning drama.
26, 27, 28 April (Theatre Rehearsal Room)
DOUBLE FEATURE
Two Short-ish Shows
MAP Theatre Co &
Switchboard Arts present
Sunshine a new
play by Ben Clark
Christmas gone, new year just around the corner – life’s never looked so bleak for Sam and Cat. Their parents have left them alone in the house with a senile grandfather and a lousy Christmas present. Life is but a board game.
And
Real Romeo
Productions and Switchboard Arts present
The Kid Knows Nothin’!
a one-man cabaret
- performed by Karlo Bran
Devised & directed by Errol Bray
The true art
of cabaret lives on in this quirky, but beautifully sung, show. Karlo Bran had to
run away from home to do it. (Don’t tell his mother!) Songwriters used include
Arlen & Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Bertolt Brecht, Ebb & Kandor, Billy
Joel, Freddie Mercury, Stephen Sondheim, and Rufus Wainwright.
Emergerproject and MAP Theatre Co presents
Picnic Playreadings
Saturday 27th May (no bookings, tickets $5 at the door for all 4 plays)
FOUR interesting, confronting, slightly weird shows by Brisbane playwrights
Theatre Rehearsal Room, 4th Floor Judith Centre
3pm "Bobbie B. Bravo" by Errol Bray is an adventure space fantasy for all the family - suitable for 7/8y.o. and up
4.30pm "Lexie Turns to Stone" by Patrick Carr (author of "Batavia") - a farce about money sex and satisfaction set on the Gold Coast - R(ude) rated - strong language, adult themes
6pm "The Professional Lover" by Felicity Carpenter (author of "Getting Betterer All the Time") - one man's quest to be the best - R(ude) rated
7pm "The Last Laugh" by Sally Rodda (author of "Mania" in this year's Brisbane Fringe Festival) - putting mum into a nursing home - funny! - multi-media - R(ude) rated
TEN X TEN
Monday 26 June - Wednesday 28 June 2006
TEN
X TEN is a 10-minute play fiesta in the Performance Space at the
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. All the plays are written by
Brisbane writers and feature a myriad of side splitting, mind bending and heart
stopping stories. This is bite-sized theatre at its best, boldest and most
bizarre.
Produced by MAP Theatre and Switchboard Arts for the Emerge project.
Battle of the Poetry Bands….. Melee of Monologuists…. Sat 15th July 4pm to 7 pm Theatre Rehearsal Room (Level 3)
Judith Wright Centre $5.00 entry at the door
Poets and Monologuists totally uncensored and
unleashed. Not ‘recitations’ but verbal confrontations – all in good fun.
Mania A New Play by Sally Rodda Suzy believes flirting is an art form and she’s
willing to teach her infallible techniques to anyone who’ll listen. But now
Suzy has a secret admirer. He’s handsome, well-dressed, intelligent and
attentive. Perhaps a little too attentive….
An unsettling psychological thriller about
obsessiveness and delusion. It will leave you questioning what is real and
just who is stalking who… Brisbane Festival Theatre Fringe at Metro Arts Presented in association with MAP Theatre Co and
Switchboard Arts Venue: Studio at Metro Arts 15-20 July at
9.15pm, 19th July 7.30 pm and 16th July 5.30pm Tickets at the door only - $15
Tilting
at Windmills Presenting
original music in a theatrical way. The songs are original, full of passion
and at times comical Fri 18-19 Aug 7.30pm Judith
Wright Centre $13/$8 (Web)
VALLEY PEOPLE – live soap – at night Mon 28th – Wed 30th
Aug Performance Space JWC $16/$10 After 3 fabulous seasons emergeproject brings the famous lunch-time
serial
There's the season 2 serial -"Mission Improbable 5: Attack
on China Town" - performed as the feature play and a tasty
selection of Valley Vignettes - funny, touching, true and incredible
stories of life in that vale of tears and valour and vices -Fortitude
Valley by Brisbane playwrights including;
Errol Bray, David Brun, Felicity Carpenter, Benjamin Clark, Daniel Evans,
Richard Jordan, Sally Rodda and James Scott
22 Sep at 10.10pm – Short play
10 Minutes Early by Felicity Carpenter at Cremorne Theatre
– see 2 High program for more
details
Getting Betterer All The Time!
a new
comedy
Directed by Errol Bray
Assistant
Director Rebekka Schafferius
The hilarious adventures of a househusband whose
power hungry wife is missing in the rainforests of North Queensland, while
his child prodigy daughter is on a World Tour playing the Peruvian Flute.
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Getting Betterer All The Time! a new
comedy Directed by Errol Bray Assistant
Director Rebekka Schafferius The hilarious adventures of a househusband whose power hungry wife is missing in the rainforests of North Queensland, while his child prodigy daughter is on a World Tour playing the Peruvian Flute. |
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Brilliant writing from
Carpenter! Stunning set from Tanja Beer. Original music by
Bernard Houston. And the best
actors in Brisbane’s indie theatre scene. All helped along by a generous
grant from Arts Queensland and Brisbane City Council.
…
become a better person! See this play!
LATE OCT – Free Hayden Spencer wkshop
for emergeproject actors – see next Newsletter
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Oct – in Studio 4
“Wrighting a Play” – a workshop for playwrights - $60
cost – run by Errol Bray
with guest writer Sven
Swenson
11 Nov – 3-8pm
– Picnic Playreadings – new plays read in
a relaxed atmosphere - $5 at the door – Studio 4, Level 4 JWC
Every Wed 12.20pm & 1.20pm – Valley People – in JWC Front Foyer – Brisbane’s only lunch-time theatre – FREE!
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Brilliant writing from
Carpenter! Stunning set from Tanja Beer. Original music by
Bernard Houston. And the best
actors in Brisbane’s indie theatre scene. All helped along by a generous
grant from Arts Queensland and Brisbane City Council. …
become a better person! See this play! LATE OCT – Free Hayden Spencer wkshop
for emergeproject actors – see next Newsletter
28
Oct – in Studio 4
“Wrighting a Play” – a workshop for playwrights - $60
cost – run by Errol Bray
with guest writer Sven
Swenson
11 Nov – 3-8pm
– Picnic Playreadings – new plays read in
a relaxed atmosphere - $5 at the door – Studio 4, Level 4 JWC
Every Wed 12.20pm & 1.20pm – Valley People – in JWC Front Foyer – Brisbane’s only lunch-time theatre – FREE!
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“emerge” is a project of Switchboard Arts
Co-op Ltd
e-mail:emergeproject@hotmail.com
other contacts:
Right Foot Down Productions
Real Romeo Productions