Reviews

There is something truly special about returning to a production that was already outstanding and discovering it has levelled up yet again. A Night With The Villains is that rare theatrical triumph, a sequel that exceeds its predecessor in scale, polish, and sheer entertainment. After the success of last year’s Matilda Award-nominated season, Mira Ball Productions has conjured a fiendishly fun spectacle that cements this show as one of Brisbane’s most anticipated annual events.

Milestone is a hundred minute audience with William Yang, Chinese, but robbed of his heritage growing up in Australia in a period when expressing one’s ethnicity was suppressed.

Yang, a photographer, has documented his life from his humble beginnings in regional Queensland (Dimbulah) to living during the emerging queer scene in Sydney, to his family life and adjusting to a quieter life in his later years.

One of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s most often performed shows, we once again return to The Mikado for their final show of 2025. Featuring some of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most well-known songs, The Mikado was set in Japan, both to play on the Japan-mania that permeated British society at the time, and as a way of stepping away from Britain, in order to satirise British society of the time.

Play On is a chaotic comedy about an amateur theatre production, where everything goes wrong, in a similar vein to The Play That Goes Wrong. A love letter to community theatre, played well, it is slick, funny and clever, and Roleystone’s production manages to hit nearly all the notes, making it a very satisfying, very clever production.