Queensland's performing artists live and create in a changing landscape of light and shade. It inspires them to make work that confronts and challenges convention. Contemporary dance, circus, physical theatre, opera, drama, comedy and experimental music take new forms - inspiring reflection at home and enthralling audiences abroad.
Some of Queensland's leading international artists have been identified in the Queensland Made Export Guide. See below for a list of the identified theatre artists and companies.
Circa presents a bold new vision of contemporary circus; a celebration of the expressive possibilities of the human body at its extremes. Since 2006 Circa has toured to 18 countries across five continents. Critics have called the work 'stunning ... exquisite ... heartstopping' and 'electrically charged'.
Often I find that I am Naked is a rich, blackly funny piece by Australian playwright Fiona Sprott. It sits within the romantic comedy genre and reflects stories from popular culture such as Sex and the City and Bridget Jones, as it takes a comical yet brutal look at single life for an Australian woman. Stylistically a cabaret theatre piece, Naked features live music alongside comedy and drama. It is a highly energetic and entertaining piece with great appeal.
Three cyclists appear spontaneously and perform for seven minutes. The cyclist musicians include three wind players (Linsey Pollak, Ric Halstead and Brendan Hook). It could be in a park, in a hardware store, in a theatre foyer or concert hall. They rest the bicycles on their stands and spontaneously perform with the bicycle pump panpipes and a handlebar flute then, in unison, they pull the seats out of their bicycle frames and place mouthpieces into the seat stems and begin playing bicycle seat clarinets as a trio.
Strut & Fret produces and manages events, theatrical productions, performers and venues with a unique 'catch your breath' style. Since its inception in 1997, the company has worked in numerous capacities within the arts, entertainment and event industries. Strut & Fret has extensive touring experience and in the past year has toured productions to the Netherlands, USA, UK, New Zealand, Korea, Japan and throughout Australia. Each year the company creates temporary entertainment precincts for festivals including Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival, and produces several events for the City of Melbourne, Brisbane City Council and City of Perth. Strut & Fret has co-produced the centrepiece for the Adelaide Fringe, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, since 2002.
Zeitgeist has already had two sell-out seasons - at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland (2009), and in Brisbane, Australia (2008). In Edinburgh, the show received more five-star reviews than any other show at the Festival and was shortlisted for the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre Award. Zeitgeist is a unique cross-cultural work that bravely interrogates the question: 'how are we as human beings, at the beginning of the millennium, meeting ourselves, each other and the planet?' At once outrageously irreverent and profoundly moving, entertaining and controversial, grotesque and beautiful, Zeitgeist weaves together the big issues of our age - gender, spiritual apathy, terrorism and environmental crisis - with archetype and myth.
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