Peach Papaya | GoldenCoastline
There is something special that happens when dancers come to support other dancers, and that is the way their energy bounces off one another. Even when nothing is happening. The performers might be standing completely still in near complete darkness, tinted only in the softest red. This is enough to spur a shout, or a cheer, or a “Get it!”. As though true silence is forbidden.
Cluedo! The New Suspects | Brisbane Immersive Ensemble
Across the venue, blackmail, flirtations, arguments, and even a broom closet triste were playing out between the six key figures. While a number of confrontations played out in front of large gatherings of the audiences, many punters had taken to chasing after the characters who took their interest to try to catch a sliver of gossip or accusation to piece together the story. Gasps, cheers and accusations from the punters fill the space as each new twist and turn unfolded.
Mental Illness Is Not A Crime | Haus of Beaver Productions
An undulating soundscape filled the room with an otherworldly atmosphere. Tents and noise cancelling headphones littered the floor. There was a wide assortment of things to poke and scratch and put your fingers in, particularly things which excited taste, smell, and touch – senses that don’t get a lot of attention in theatre.
Intoxication | Before Shot
At its core, the show is about love and relationships and the anxiety, self-doubt, self-loathing, and questions of worth that can come along with it. Christopher addressed audience members as if they were people in his life, people he admired, desired, despised. The audience became participants, watching and being watched in the circle.
Absolute Trash | Glitter Martini
Each one of the circus acts was incredibly well-polished and a real pleasure to watch. These are circus artists with a truckload of experience under their belt, performing some quite technical tricks that had me mesmerised from the very first to the very last moment.
Sex, Lies & Betrayal – Memoirs of a Hollywood Star | JTM Productions
As we enter the room, we are soon introduced to Miss Nightingale, played by the talented Karla Hillam. Immediately I was captivated and engaged, with the intimacy of the setting it made you feel at times like a fly on the wall of something real. Karla brought the confidence required to play a charismatic Hollywood Legend, along with the elegance of a Grace Kelly, and the depth to show the struggle, pain, and haunting memories.
Sometimes I Say Your Name Out Loud | Collectivist & Moment of Inertia
As the curtain rises, we meet the three caretakers of death, the Priestess with her goddesslike aura and picturesque flower crown, Mort with her sickle and Ronnie, a janitor clown who captured our hearts with all of her imperfections and her endearing smile.
Seven more settings for shows that will blow your mind during Anywhere Festival 2021
It’s Anywhere time, so five unexpected places to catch shows was never going to be enough. Here are seven more settings that for shows during this year's festival that will blow your mind.
Five shows by artists with disability that are transcending form and trashing stereotype
Wanna see something fresh? Yeah you do. This year at Anywhere Festival, there are a heap incredible works of art coming to you from artists with disability, and they are going to be hot. These performers are fiercely deconstructing barriers and stereotypes, giving you an all-new look at the mechanisms of stage and form. They are creating stunning works across theatre, dance, magic, and performance art. Put them at the top of your list.
Grab a drink, bring a friend, and let everyone’s favourite Shaz get you back on your feet!
The Shazza Show: So… You’ve Hit Rock Bottom is an 18+ event. There is a content warning for adult themes, course language and sexual references. Shazza is a character that pushes boundaries and works as a piece of satire to make comments on societal issues. There is no intention to offend anyone directly, so if you are easily offended, this is not the show for you.
Be transported to an 'in-between' space in a cavernous and desolate warehouse for DISTURBO, a physical theatre piece exploring intimacy, alienation and connection.
DISTURBO takes place in a transitory space, somewhere ‘in-between’. Two characters inhabit the space, moving and merging, resisting and yielding. Their roles are blurred and the dynamics constantly shifting. Lights buzz, voices emerge: the space is taken up with more than just these two... It is full of potential. Pulsing between intimacy and alienation, what will they risk for connection? We use our relationship to our inner world and the space we are in to explore matters of connection and isolation through circus, dance, and lip-sync.
Who doesn't want to see a play about wizards and music in a village somewhere?
It's our take on the medieval fantasy genre – rather than focus on the princes and kings who go through a tremendous action-packed journey and touching character arc and all of their loves and losses, what about the people in the background, the people who just live non-adventurous lives in the village? The town baker has probably got some stories to tell. The two protagonists aren't even old proper wizards yet, they're teenagers who are wizard apprentices. It's the story that the non-playable characters never get to tell.
Watch a gig inspired by prehistoric birds, surrounded by giant fossils
If you’ve ever wondered what music about giant extinct birds might sound like, or whether violins and electronics can be friends, or how it feels to see a gig surrounded by fossils, then wonder no more! Archaeopteryx is an immersive musical performance by Nonsemble, an eclectic Brisbanebased indie-chamber ensemble. The music is inspired by prehistoric birds, with each movement named after a species.
A lovepoem made with circus, theatre and dark clowning
If you love dark clowning, random acts of senseless kindness, or mysterious and strange works of art that enliven the imagination and bravely go wherever they need to go, you will love this.
Create sacred temple spaces and wild ecstatic states of self-transcendence
Syren’s new live show 'Sacred Body' brings to life the mystical experience of her music with raw and powerful vocals as she performs original beats alongside majestic Harpist Cecilia Caleandro (Brisbane), and violin and flute player Caroline Trengove (Noosa). Together, they will create sacred temple spaces and wild ecstatic states of self-transcendence
Explore the search for connection, the beauty of vulnerability, and the awkwardness of first dates while laughing yourself silly
[Plucked] began with a casual conversation about how there were limited opportunities to play LGBTIQ+ roles. We started joking about writing our own. A few weeks later she’d written an awesome script, was accepted into the Anywhere Festival and before I knew it, I was knee deep in a gay rom-com.
Corpus Null explores the positioning of the body within capitalism as both its function and its evasion.
Corpus Null is a performance work that inhabits the intensity between the desiring and desired. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s concept Body Without Organs, this work of butoh dance theatre reflects on the positioning of the body within capitalism as both its function and its evasion. This tension is mirrored in cycles of symbiotic genesis and extinction and attempts to exist between becoming and undoing, in the void of unattainable desire.
Come and be a part of the steering group of the real rulers of the world
This group of wannabee Bond Villains make Dr Evil look like Albert Einstein. Come and be part of their steering group to see what dastardly plans they have in store for you and all the world. “...witty, irreverent and very silly” on the sofa audience member. FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
Five Shows to Take Your Eccentric Bohemian Mum To
The best Brisvegas event of the year, aka Anywhere Festival, is fast approaching, as is Mother’s Day. And I know for a fact that a lot of us, including myself, have an eccentric bohemian one who would thrive watching indie, quirky fringe theatre. So, why not give her the gift of theatre and take her to see one of these shows. One knows, you may even see me and my Mum there…
Five shows for enterprising private eyes
The Anywhere Festival is always one of the best places to see shows that allow you to fully immerse yourself in the action. And we're not just talking immersion, we're talking the kind of shows that give you the full starring role, where you solve the case, and take home the fortune and glory.