The smash hit production of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel, Queensland Theatre‘s Jasper Jones, is coming to QPAC’s Playhouse from 28 July to 18 August.
Adapted for the stage by Kate Mulvany and directed by Sam Strong, Melbourne Theatre Company’s Jasper Jones is a modern Australian story that has captured the nation’s imagination like few before it … a best-selling novel that has become a contemporary classic. It is a theatrical adaptation that has created three different sell-out productions across Sydney and Melbourne, has a Helpmann Award-winning design, and most recently became an acclaimed feature film.
In the sizzling summer of 1965, a bookish 14 year old boy flees from the boredom and bullying of small town life by burying himself in stories of epic adventure. He never thought he would find himself living one.
In October, Queensland Theatre will launch its much anticipated state-of-the-art Bille Brown Theatre in South Brisbane with beloved playwright David Williamson’s latest work, Nearer the Gods. This is the story of how one of the greatest moments of scientific illumination almost did not happen, starring William McInnis, Rhys Muldoon and Matthew Backer.
Logie Award winning Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake) will take on Ibsen’s leading lady in Melissa Bubnic’s Hedda in November — a new version of the classic play that is as dangerous and surprising as its heroine.
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