Reviews

Contra Concerts' debut series started in Brisbane with a delightful curated concert of pieces by JS Bach. This clever selection transports the audience back to the streets of Leipzig at the height of the Baroque period. The intimate setting in the quaint space of the Holy Trinity Church Hall, with its beautiful high wooden ceiling, allows a closeness to the musicians which means the pieces can be enjoyed almost as the composer would have envisioned ...

Originally produced and presented by Second Chance Theatre at the Blue Room, Black Swan State Theatre Company’s rendition of Playthings, featuring the same director and cast as the excellent original, allows this show to stretch and grow as well as exposing this expertly written, beautifully crafted show to a much wider audience.

CLOC Musical Theatre takes a very traditional approach to this iconic and fun-filled musical. The characterisations, music and costuming remain completely faithful to the original text. CLOC goes out of its way to ensure that the sense of grandeur and extravagance that characterises Priscilla is also faithfully reproduced. These extraordinary efforts result in an effervescent and vibrant performance.

One of the most powerful things about music is its ability to strike hard at your emotional core. It is a language without words, that inexplicably elicits feelings and sparks visualisations and memories. Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Pictures at an Exhibition could move even the hardest of hearts and most stoic of countenances.