September at the Brisbane Powerhouse
Check out whats on at the Brisbane Powerhouse this September: Monday 20 September to Sunday 26 September 2010 as part of the Brisbane Festival for 2010
Brisbane Powerhouse and Brisbane Festival 2010 present:
First Love
THEATRE
Leading Interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work, Gare Saint Lazare Players will visit Australia for the first time for Brisbane Festival 2010. Performed by Conor Lovett and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, First Love, is one of Samuel Beckett’s early short stories and contains much of his distinctive black humour and a plot that is regarded as a masterpiece of Beckettian perversity. A young man, expelled from the family home, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home, with comically disastrous consequences. Gare Saint Lazare Players have toured internationally with their critically acclaimed presentations of Beckett’s prose works. Conor Lovett’s exceptional performance animates the bone-dry humour of a character besieged with a clutter of emotions.Gare Saint Lazare Players’ precise and elegant work has made Beckett accessible to a whole a new audience and earned the company an enviable reputation around the world.
Tue 21 – Sat 25 Sep 8pm
$34 (f) $26 (c) $25 (group 6+)
Visy Theatre
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Festival 2010 presents QUT Festival Theatre:
The Dark Party
COMEDY
The Dark Party is a journey both literally and metaphorically through the lives of men. Produced by The Dirty Brothers Sideshow from Melbourne, who have just returned from a triumphant season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Dark Party is enjoying rave reviews for rattling the cage of modern circus and bringing sideshow to the world of contemporary theatre.
Tue 21 – Sat 25 Sep 9pm
$35 (f) $25 (group 10+)
QUT Festival theatre
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Festival 2010 presents QUT Festival Theatre:
Strange Familiar Angel
THEATRE
We are all beautiful strangers to ourselves. The latest creation from Circa’s young performance group, Strange Familiar Angel, is a mesmerizing collision of circus skills and young people coming together in a supernova of light, bodies, sound and action. Performing at the open-air QUT Festival Theatre at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Circa Zoo takes the audience on a white-knuckle ride of metaphysical exploration where performers find their limits then leap off into the unknown through acrobatics and action, trapeze and touch, contortion and coming of age.
Tue 21 – Sat 25 Sep 7.30pm
$35 (f) $25 (group 10+)
QUT Festival theatre
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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United Way Queensland and Brisbane Powerhouse presents:
Local Eyes Brisbane
VISUAL
This exhibition offers a voice to those yet to be heard. Eighteen young storytellers have taken up the camera to allow others a glimpse into their lives. Local Eyes showcases photo stories by 18 individuals from United Way Queensland’s community groups in the greater Brisbane area. We all have an image of Brisbane. We know what it looks like, how it works and how it feels. But our view of Brisbane is just one perspective among thousands. It is through the sharing of stories that the community is formed.
Tue 21 Sep – Sun 3 Oct
9am – 5pm Mon – Fri, 10am – 4pm Sat + Sun + during performance times.
FREE
Brisbane Powerhouse
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Festival 2010 presents:
The Oracle
DANCE
This sensual and intense dance work by celebrated choreographer Meryl Tankard, featuring dancer Paul White, explores the conflicting forces of nature and man, masculinity and femininity, violence and nurturing, strength and vulnerability. Inspired by the sometimes disturbing human forms in Scandinavian artist Odd Nerdrum’s work, The Oracle is set to Stravinsky’s seminal composition for the infamous 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring, which caused riots at its Paris premiere. The intensity of the subject, the power of the complex, rhythmic musical score and the stark and brooding aesthetic, created by visual & set designer Regis Lansac, deliver an atmosphere of coiled-spring emotions and conflict in this haunting and critically acclaimed work.
Wed 22 – Sat 25 Sep 7pm
$35 (f) $30 (c) $25 (group 10+)
Powerhouse Theatre
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Festival 2010 presents QUT Festival Theatre:
Bang! Crash! Tap!
DANCE
Bang! Crash! Tap! From Raw Dance is a mind-blowing dance and percussion stage spectacular featuring one of Australia’s most talented drummers, the London Beat Boxing Champion, and two of the fastest tap dancers ever to hit the earth.Creative Producer and Raw Dance founder Andrew Fee has toured the world as Director, Producer and Performer for many of Raw Dance’s outstanding works. His trademark mix of funk/hip-hop, tap and acrobatics is a cornerstone of Raw Dance’s style.
Thu 23 – Fri 24 Sep
Thu 1pm, Fri 10am + 1pm
$20 (f) $10 (c)
QUT Festival theatre
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Marketing and Brispop Present:
The Residents
MUSIC
September Resident: Mr Rascal
MR RASCAL are a contemporary folk collective from Brisbane, Australia. Combining eclectic instrumentation and a musical repertoire ranging from ‘confessionary gospel’ to ‘ramshackle barnyard grumble’ the group’s music is described by Time Off Magazine as ‘songs that sound like old friends even before you’ve heard them’. Mr Rascal’s latest release ‘My, What a Big Black Cloud!’ is an experiment in song-writing and musicality. Written, recorded and completed in 30 days the release captures the energy and vitality of live performance with the types of universal experiences that can affect any individual in the space of a month. The release has already received glowing reviews, described by Scene Magazine as ‘rather beautiful!’
Friday 24 September 6pm
FREE
Turbine Platform
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Saturday Sessions
Qut Creative Industries and Brisbane Powerhouse present:
Popalicious
MUSIC
Everybody’s talking about it and QUT students are making it on the fourth Saturday of every month.Fresh Tunes – Contemporary young musicians from QUT’s innovative school of music perform their own original compositions.
Duration: 2 hrs
Every 4th Saturday of the Month
25 September
Fornika
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Powerhouse, Brispop.com and Hutchinson Builders Present:
Live Spark
MUSIC
Sunday 26 September 3.30pm
Princess One Point Five + Seja
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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Brisbane Powerhouse Presents:
Livewired
COMEDY
Funny, free and freakin’ awesome.
Sunday 26 September 6.30pm: Stephen Head
FREE
Turbine Platform
For more information go to
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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