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QUEENSLAND THEATRE
2025 SEASON
Queensland Theatre has launched their 2025 season and the best news is, they now offer audio description across TWO performances in every production. This gives you the choice to attend on either a Friday evening at 7:30pm or a Saturday matinee at 2pm.
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Tactile tours are available, as always, 90 minutes before the show starts. Just let the team at Queensland Theatre know you'd like to join the tour. Friends and family are welcome, and all of it is free.
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The button below takes you to Queensland Theatre's season package page, to book 8, 6, 5, or 3 plays as a bundle to enjoy a discount and plan your social calendar early!​​
Dictionary of Lost Words
Adapted by Verity Laughton from the novel by Pip Williams
Presented by QPAC
Saturday 10 May 2025
Tactile Tour 12:00pm
Show Starts 1:00pm.
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane
​Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words is brought to vivid life in this wildly popular stage adaptation by Verity Laughton. “Filled with humour and historical awareness” (Broadway World) and expertly directed by Jessica Arthur, it’s no wonder this play has become a runaway success.
It’s 1886 and the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled. Four-year-old Esme Nicoll has a front row seat. Well, she’s hiding under the sorting table, anyway. As her father and his male colleagues decide which words stay and which go, Esme collects the discarded scraps to compile her own far more magical dictionary. A sweeping historical tale, The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme from her childhood in the 1880s, into adulthood at the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the beginning of the First World War.
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This beloved modern classic, featuring Arkia Ashraf, Rachel Burke, Ksenja Logos, Angela Nica Sullen and Shannen Alyce Quan, is a beautiful and transportive reflection on the love between a daughter and her father and a spellbinding night of theatre.
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A best-selling multi-award winner (including the People’s Choice Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards) and chosen for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club, the book has been lauded as an “absorbing, quietly revolutionary novel”, “deeply, intrinsically kind [and] a profoundly comforting place to dwell” (The Age) and “a captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded” (New York Times).
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Adapted by Shake & Stir Theatre Co.
Presented by QPAC
Saturday 7 June 2025
Tactile Tour 11:30am
Show Starts 1:00pm & 7:00pm
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Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane
Alive on stage... The critically-acclaimed, theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic has electrified sold-out audiences in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Now, the monster returns.
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Victor Frankenstein, a grieving but brilliantly ambitious young scientist, pushes the boundaries of theory and morality to create a living being from the remains of the dead. But playing God has its consequences…
Shunned by society and plagued by an inherited sense of confusion and rage, Victor’s miracle of science becomes a monster that threatens to destroy everything his creator holds dear.
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Combining cutting edge production elements with the power of virtuosic storytelling, Frankenstein is a night of thrilling theatre of monstrous proportions – bringing Mary Shelley’s classic screaming into the 21st Century.
Pramkicker
by Sadie Hasler
Presented by MO as part of DOOR 3
Saturday 7 June 2025
Show Starts 12:30pm
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Diane Cilento Studio, South Brisbane
Meet PRAMKICKER... (she kicked a f*cking pram!) ​
​Jude is angry. Susie’s mainlining custard again.
When Jude is arrested for kicking off in a café full of passive-aggressive "yummy mummies," she’s sent to anger management. Susie, determined to make sure Jude’s next jumpsuit isn’t one with a serial number, tags along. But Susie’s not just there for moral support—she’s nursing secrets of her own. In this no-holds-barred, G&T-fuelled D&M, the sisters dive into the mess of adulting, expectations of motherhood, and a woman’s worth. It’s a middle finger to the labels we’re forced to wear, and a chance to figure out who the hell we are now we’re all grown up. MO Theatre invites you to your court-mandated session—BYO feminine rage.
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Sadie Hasler’s hit play is a vulnerable, potty-mouthed love-letter to modern women. In a climate where a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body remains stubbornly, maddeningly relevant, PRAMKICKER plucks the discussion of reproductive rights out of the mouths of politicians and places it back where it belongs.
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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