WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

20 DECEMBER, 6pm

PRICES

General Admission to one film $13.00 + booking fee. 
Concession to one film $10.00 + booking fee. 
General Admission to both films $18.00 + booking fee. 
Concession to both films $14.00 + booking fee. 

Rob Knaggs and Sunday are wanderers. Having been inspired by vastly different ecologies through their expansive dream-like music, they are coming together for a visually captivating night at Metro Arts’ Epson Lumen Room on Saturday, November 16th.

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

16 NOVEMBER, 8pm

PRICES

General Admission $15.00 + booking fee. 

PRESENTED BY TAFE QUEENSLAND ACTING

As part of TAFE Queensland Acting’s partnership with Metro Arts, we are co-hosting what will be an annual event night to finish the year, celebrating our recent achievements, and introducing the performance season and new study programs for 2020.

We will be showing you our graduating students’ acting work, spruiking our end of year shows, and sharing some exciting events that will be happening next year at Metro Arts and our own Norman Price Theatre.

We would also like to make it a night of sharing and discussion, both with those people in the community who are already engaged with our program, and for those who may be interested in the unique sort of theatre being made at TAFE Queensland Acting: our culture and repertoire, the work we do with our students and our vision for the future.

Image: The Striker by Caryl Churchill, featuring Amy Hauser & Geena Schwartz, directed by Lisa O’Neill. Image by Warrick Fraser. 

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

28 OCTOBER, 7pm

PRICES

General Admission FREE! 
Please register for your free ticket via the link below. 

PRESENTED BY IMMERSE CONTEMPORARY YOUTH COMPANY

This year, for their inaugural event, IMMERSE choreographer, Hollie Ison, has collaborated with Melbourne composer, Nick Lee, to produce this original work.

The performers have engaged in research about missing children and the trauma associated with crimes against children, and its effect on their families. Audiences will witness an original score and original choreography, performed live by passionate young contemporary dance artists. The piece focuses on the unspoken and tragic echoes of missing persons and explores expressive movement created specifically to tell their stories. 

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

24 NOVEMBER, 6:30pm

PRICES

General Admission $45.00 + booking fee. 
Concession $35.00 + booking fee.
Group of 10+ $40.00 per ticket + booking fee. 

PRESENTED BY JPR PRODUCTIONS

The boardroom becomes a battleground when the purchase of a new recruit pits the disgruntled head coach against club President. In the heat of battle, the players threaten a team wide strike and a club legend will use the opportunity to usurp the presidency for himself. Whilst the men each fight for power and control of the Club’s on and off field destiny, the game’s best administrator watches his Machiavellian scheme unfold. Each man will face his truth. Only the strong will survive. But will The Club?

One of Australia’s most beloved plays, The Club is an iconic masterpiece from our greatest playwright, David Williamson. The Club has been revived for a limited four show run for Brisbane audiences, bringing a dramatic yet side-splittingly humorous look at the dawn of the professional sports era in Australian Rules football.

Featuring some of the most memorable characters to ever grace Australian stages, The Club will transport you to back to the 70’s – a time when the ethos of big business had only just started to infiltrate our national game and threatened to leave a veritable trail of crushed egos and shattered dreams in its wake.  

Delivered at a frenetic laugh-a-minute pace, The Club is not just a hilarious romp about footy, it’s a time capsule piece that illuminates Australia as it was, half a century ago.

ABOUT JPR PRODUCTIONS

JPR Productions, headed by Director Jesse Richardson, was established with an interest in reviving Australian theatre classics and with the intention of producing new historically based stories for Australian theatre.

Jesse has worked in the entertainment industry for the past 15 years across all mediums as a writer, actor, producer and director in everything from feature films, theatre, short films, commercials and corporate work.

JPR Productions plans a self-devised work, the period drama “Great South Land” set in frontier Brisbane, circa 1850, as the next project in mid 2020.

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

12 – 14 SEPTEMBER, 7:30pm
15 SEPTEMBER, 2pm

PRICES

General Admission $35 + booking fee
Concession $25 + booking fee

BY RACHAEL LEAHCAR

‘Every colour is a story to tell and a song to sing.’

Rachael Leahcar placed third on the first season of The Voice, performed with Andrea Bocelli’s orchestra, appeared on RAI Uno television broadcast all over the world and released four top 10 ARIA charting albums… and this is just the beginning!

Having conquered stages around the world, Rachael invites you on a journey down memory lane in this intimate show featuring songs that have stood the test of time, photos and videos from her past and all the behind-the-scenes secrets from her time on The Voice.

With Rachael’s powerful vocals, alluring stage presence and a secret special guest, this is sure to be a favourite for those young and old!

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

11 OCTOBER, 7:30pm

PRICES

General Admission $27.50 + booking fee. 
Concession $21.50 + booking fee.
Children aged 2 – 15  $17.50 + booking fee.
Group of 10+ $19.50 + booking fee. 
Sound Check Pass (access to 6pm sound check, meet Rachael Leahcar and attend the show) $44.50 + booking fee. 

PRESENTED BY BOSCO PRODUCTIONS

Earning rave reviews from its New York and London seasons, Olivier Award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett’s razor-sharp play dissects one man’s emotional indecision in our commitment-phobic age. This hilarious and heartbreaking comedy puts you ringside as John wages war with his lovers, himself and a society that demands an answer to the question, “Who am I?”. 

CAST & CREATIVES

WHERE

Sue Benner Theatre, Metro Arts

WHEN

21 – 31 AUGUST, 7:30pm (& 2pm Saturdays)

PRICES

General Admission $44 + booking fee
Concession $34 + booking fee
Group 5+ $34 + booking fee

BY BIANCA BALITY and JOE WILSON
PRESENTED BY THE NAUGHTY CORNER

Have you ever told a lie?
Done something you wish you hadn’t?
Something that landed you in hot water?

In a town where nothing ever happens and no one ever leaves, best friends Toni, Shane, Mark and Melanie spend their time drinking at their broken down local, swimming at the dam and kicking around their dustbowl town. 

Unable to shake the labels they assigned to one another as children, the teens are desperate to shake things up. Over the course of a single evening old friendships are tested and a seemingly innocent night of drinking and games ends in disaster.

Something in the Water is a play that explores teenage angst, betrayal and the ugly business of growing up. 

CAST & CREATIVES

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

27 – 29 JUNE, 7:30pm

PRICES

General Admission $25 + booking fee
Early Bird Tickets $20 + booking fee (24th – 26th May only)

WITH HELEN ZALTZMAN

Award-winning British podcast The Allusionist is a logophile’s dream. Ever heard of Toki Pona (said to be ‘the smallest language in the world’) or indefinite hyperbolic numerals (‘zillions, jillions or squillions’)? Have you questioned Western yogic deployments of ‘namaste’, opening lines on dating apps, or dating systems of the BC, AD and BCE kind? Producer and host Helen Zaltzman is here for you. A veteran podcaster with the long-running, hugely popular indie podcast Answer Me This! in 2007 – Zaltzman started making The Allusionist in 2015. In each episode, she rumbles with language with infectious verve and a generous helping of pop culture. In 2019, Zaltzman returns with a show about taking gender out of language through the power of infotainment –  with musical support from Martin Austwick. Join her for a fascinating and irreverent adventure into the world we make with words.

“My new favourite is The Allusionist, about words and the English language. Episodes are under 20 minutes, and I haven’t hit a dud yet“
– Margaret Lyons, The New York Times.

 

“Zaltzman’s enthusiasm for the topics and her guests is what is so appealing about this podcast”
– Buzzfeed

 

“Any podcast involving Helen Zaltzman will always be worth a listen”
– The UK Observer

“The show is filled with good humor and a great deal of levity to make one of the funniest and most educational podcasts around”
– The Guardian.

WHERE

Epson Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

25 MAY, 7pm

PRICES

General Admission $25 + booking fee
Concession $20 + booking fee

BY BRISBANE CITY OPERA

Opera Galactica is a hilarious romp that is equal parts opera, hilarious comedy and rollicking space adventure!
Coming to Brisbane direct from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival you don’t want to miss this exclusive Australian Premiere presented by Brisbane City Opera!

“A champagne performance that left this writer chuckling for hours afterwards” 
– Opera Now

 

“If you’re not into opera, it’s sheer entertainment, and if you’re a sophisticate, it’s packed with in-jokes”
– The Herald

WHERE

The Lumen Room, Metro Arts

WHEN

14 – 16 MARCH, 7pm
17 MARCH, 2pm
19 – 22 MARCH, 7pm

PRICES

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $30 + booking fee (available until 28th February)
General Admission $35 + booking fee
Concession $30 + booking fee