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Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica
by David Williamson
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 13 June2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 14 June 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
Bille Brown Theatre, Montague Road, South Brisbane.
Odd couples don’t come much odder than Gary and Monica in this comedic gem from national treasure David Williamson, where double Gold Logie-winner Georgie Parker (Home and Away) and Glenn Hazeldine (Colin From Accounts) reprise their performances 15 years after its debut.
When a cultured inner-city aesthete hires a knockabout true-blue tradie to renovate her kitchen, she gets more than she bargained for. The pair argue about everything, including the kitchen sink, but when the witty banter turns to music, things heat up faster than Monica’s new six-burner cooktop!
She’s an embittered former classical violinist who loves Mahler more than life itself. He’s a glib former Country and Western singer now spinning tracks as DJ Rhinestone Rex. They have nothing in common except that they’re both middle-aged and single. But as the arrows fly and the digs land, will this duo discover they’re accidentally harmonising on their own sweet duet?
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Dog Man: The Musical
Book and Lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 11 July 2025
Tactile Tour 1:00pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Will Dog Man save the day?
Best buddies George and Harold have been creating comics for years, but now that they’re in 5th grade, they figure it’s time to level up and write a musical based on their favourite character, Dog Man, the crime-biting sensation who is part dog, part man and ALL HERO!!
How hard could it be…?
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With the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, Dog Man loves to fight crime and chew on the furniture.
But while trying his best to be a good boy, can he save the city from Flippy the cyborg fish and his army of Beasty Buildings? Can he catch Petey, the world’s most evil cat, who has cloned himself to exact revenge on the doggy do-gooder? And will George and Harold finish their musical before lunchtime??
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Find out in this epic musical adventure featuring the hilarity and heart of Dav Pilkey’s beloved characters.
Dog Man: The Musical is a performance adventure based on the worldwide bestselling series from Dav Pilkey, the creator of the top selling DOG MAN and Captain Underpants books.
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Dear Son
Based on the book by Thomas Mayo
Adapted by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey.
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 18 July 2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 19 July 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
Bille Brown Theatre, Montague Road, South Brisbane.
Author, editor and proud Kaurareg, Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man Thomas Mayo invited 12 Indigenous men to write a letter to their son, father or nephew in a gentle and honest compendium of love and reflection.
The celebration of First Nations manhood featured letters from Stan Grant, Troy Cassar-Daley, Johnny Liddle, Charlie King, Joe Williams, Yessie Mosby, Joel Bayliss, Daniel James, Jack Latimore, Daniel Morrison, Tim Sculthorpe and Blak Douglas.
In 2025, renowned First Nations theatre makers Isaac Drandic (37, Dear Brother) and John Harvey (Spear, Black Ties) adapt these deeply personal letters into a powerful world premiere, alongside leading First Nations actors Jimi Bani (Othello, My Name Is Jimi) and Trevor Jamieson (The Secret River, Storm Boy).
Through story and music, Dear Son honours the rich traditions and wisdoms of fathers passed down through generations, interrogating the challenges faced by First Nations men and honouring the importance of family, the power of culture and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
The Visitors
by Jane Harrison
Presented by QPAC as part of Clancestry
Friday 26 July 2025
Tactile Tour 11:30am
Show Starts 1:00pm
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Visitors leave. Right?
On a sweltering day in January 1788, seven clan leaders gather on a sandstone escarpment overlooking the harbour. The attendees, six of them Elders and one new initiate, catch-up, laugh together, share a meal and compare notes. But beyond the friendly banter, protocols, and hospitality, a momentous decision is waiting to be made.
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A mysterious fleet of giant nawi is amassing in the harbour and as they creep closer, these seven representatives must choose unanimously: whether to send these strangers on their way or welcome them?
Having recently been awarded Best Mainstage Production and Best Ensemble at the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards, The Visitors by Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison, and directed by one of Australia’s most celebrated directors, Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch, comes to QPAC for a strictly limited season.
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Co-produced by Moogahlin Performing Arts and Sydney Theatre Company, The Visitors is at once a riveting, deeply researched insight into one of the most impactful and painful days in Australia’s history, and a hugely entertaining study of how communities respond to change and the unknown.
Julia
by Joanna Murray-Smith
A Sydney Theatre Company and Canberra Theatre Centre production.
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 22 August 2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 23 August 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Not now, not ever.
In 2012, Julia Gillard gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world as our first female Prime Minister thundered across the Despatch Box: “I will not”.
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Over a decade later, one of Australia’s most esteemed playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, tells the human story behind the extraordinary speech in a stirring and inspiring re-examination of that moment and a revelatory portrait of the woman who made it happen. Directed by Helpmann Award-winner Sarah Goodes, Julia is a critical and box office triumph, dazzling audiences across the country with its profound, wry and intoxicating exploration of gender, privilege and power.
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The phenomenal Justine Clarke delivers a “heroic performance” (The Sydney Morning Herald) that takes us through key moments in Prime Minister Gillard’s life — from her childhood through to her foray into and across the battlefield of Australian politics — culminating in an “electrifying” (The Guardian) verbatim performance of the ‘misogyny speech’. ​As women around the world continue to fight against oppression, Julia is a provocative rallying cry that is not to be missed.
Back To Bilo
by Kathryn Lyall-Watson
A Belloo Creative production
Presented by Queensland Theatre
Friday 12 September 2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 13 September 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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Bille Brown Theatre, Montague Road, South Brisbane.
A true-life testimony to people power and persistence.
Priya and Nades left war-torn Sri Lanka and found each other in regional Queensland. They married, had two daughters, worked hard and settled into a simple but happy country life. The community welcomed them with open arms — but four years later came a knock at the door and they were ripped away in a dawn raid. Their story could have ended there, but a brave band of Biloela women weren’t giving up on them so easily.
Fighting alongside the young refugee family, they launched a grassroots, people-powered campaign that galvanised hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians to demand the family be brought back to Bilo. This is the remarkable true account of one family’s ordeal in the nightmare limbo of immigration detention, a story of how love is stronger than fear and of how persistence and togetherness can win against crushing odds. Back to Bilo is a profoundly moving new play from celebrated local company Belloo Creative (Boy, Lost) and is made with — and from — the heart of regional Queensland.
Malacanang Made Us
by Jordan Shea
Produced by Queensland Theatre
Friday 31 October 2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 1 November 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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Bille Brown Theatre, Montague Road, South Brisbane.
The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised.
1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change.
On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young men climb the walls of Malacañang Palace, storm the hallways, and seat themselves on his throne. Among them are brothers Martin and Ernie — heroes... if only for a night.
Nearly 40 years later, the siblings reunite in Brisbane, where Martin’s teenage son Leo is incensed that the dictator’s heir is being elected to the presidency of the Philippines. With a fresh revolution and some old family secrets in the air, the three men will reconnect over the conditions of love, the question of duty and the price of rebellion.
In a watershed moment for Australian Filipino theatre, Jordan Shea’s Queensland Premier’s Drama Award-winning play draws on his multicultural experiences in an ambitious and haunting theatrical epic that celebrates the power of ordinary people to (re)discover their bravery and help shape history.
A Few Good Men
by Aaron Sorkin
Produced by Queensland Theatre
Friday 5 December 2025
Tactile Tour 6:00pm
Show Starts 7:30pm
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Saturday 6 December 2025
Tactile Tour 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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The Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Aaron Sorkin’s cinematic smash returns to the stage.
Long before Hollywood, this sizzling legal drama from the masterful Aaron Sorkin dominated Broadway, and now court is in session in the Playhouse for QPAC’s 40th Birthday celebrations. One misfit US Marine is dead, two others stand accused of killing him, and the whole corps is on trial as a team of young military lawyers uncover a sinister conspiracy in this gripping judicial thriller. Inspired by actual events at Guantanamo Bay in 1986, this “brilliant, intelligent, cutting, shivering and even nasty script” (The Independent) sparkles with the signature quickfire repartee of Sorkin’s screen hits The West Wing, The Newsroom and The Social Network.
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Turning a spotlight on the toxic internal culture of the United States military, A Few Good Men interrogates the idea that instilling unquestioning loyalty in a soldier has dark and terrible consequences, and that patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Helmed by three-time Matilda Award-winning director Daniel Evans, a cast of rising stars go head-to-head with a swathe of stage legends in this courtroom tour-de-force.
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Can you handle the truth?