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QUT Gardens Theatre 2009 season released
Gardens Theatre followed up this year’s eclectic but successful season with the release of their 2009 Brisbane Theatre season shows, which were announced last night at the second annual ‘Gardens Theatre Friends Party’, attended by 400 Brisbane theatre lovers.
Carrying themes of drama, truth, hilarity, black comedy, brilliance, tear-jerking honesty and music, the eight shows that make up the 2009 season of live performance is the theatre’s biggest yet, and is testament to its rapid growth.
2009’s season brings back Brisbane favourite Menopause The Musical for what could be a final encore for the show that over 130,000 Brisbane theatre goes have seen over the years.
John Wood returns for the third year, this time carrying one-man black comedy A Stretch of the Imagination, by Jack Hibberd and directed by Wood's The Club castmate Denis Moore.
Fans of Robert Harling’s smash hit film Steel Magnolias can enjoy the stage version of this enduring comedy and heart-felt celebration of love and sisterhood; the cast includes Jacki Weaver.
Gripping drama Embers tells the true story of the January 2003 fire store in Victoria’s North East and Gippsland, made up of interviews and observations from writer Campion Decent.
The Seed, written by and starring successful and well-known writer Kate Mulvany, is a powerful and moving piece of theatre that shines a pure light onto war and it’s consequences to the families of veterans.
From Patric Marber, writer of smash hit films Notes on a Scandal (starring Cate Blanchett) and Closer (starring Julia Roberts and Jude Law) comes Dealer’s Choice, a clever comedy that tells the story of a routine poker game with the introduction of a mystery guest who has an axe to grind.
Comedy The Debutante Diaries (by Kate McLennan) round up the season by taking audiences on an hilarious trip down memory lane back to their high school days, as McLennan plays a range of debzillas hilariously navigating their way through adolescence.
There is one more comedy show that is presented as a bonus show for one night only, The Needle and The Damage Done, which rewinds back to the worst music ever released on vinyl.. The show is not included in the Subscription season, although subscribers are invited to purchase tickets at half price as another benefit of subscribing to the season.
The eight shows on offer to from next May to October during Gardens Theatre’s professional season are:
- The Seed, 6-7 May
- The Debutante Diaries, 22-23 May
- A Stretch of the Imagination starring John Wood, 15-17 June
- Menopause The Musical, 29 June to 8 July
- Dealer’s Choice, 10-11 July
- Steel Magnolias starring Jacki Weaver, 11-12 September
- Embers, 29-30 September
Plus The Needle and the Damage Done, 16 October
QUT Gardens Theatre’s affordable 2009 subscriptions are available in standard and matinee-only packages comprising all shows or a choice of four or more shows, and range from $68 to $217.
Subscribers will also receive complimentary tickets to see QUT’s graduating dancers and actors in Dance 09 and Company 09.
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