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Brisbane Airport continues to be a proud partner to many arts and culture not-for-profits due to the phenomenal cultural development that they bring to our city and the visitors they draw in from all around Australia and the world.
Last year, our arts partners projected their inherent creativity into solving the problem of continuing to bring arts and culture to our community without large audiences gathering together, turning to virtual performances, online cultural education classes and in-real-life performances built for intimate audiences where social distancing could be maintained. The dedication to their cause and connection to their community was inspiring to be a part of during a turbulent year.
As our arts partners announced their 2021 seasons, a beacon of normalcy, fun and hope was lit. Here's cheers to full theatres, teeming galleries, interstate visitors in our audiences and a 2021 of uninterrupted arts and culture events in Brisbane. We'll be in the audience showing our support, will you?
Spring events in Brisbane: September - November 2021
Museum of Brisbane: City in the Sun
Now until 27 February 2022
Brisbane's subtropical climate and laid-back lifestyle is the focus of Museum of Brisbane's major exhibition, City in the Sun, welcoming visitors until February next year to look back at how Brisbane saw itself. Have we moved beyond bikini-clad, pineapple loving images to a contemporary and cosmopolitan city?
From frangipanis to bathing beauties, Brisbane’s subtropical image is firmly planted in the hearts and minds of locals and visitors. Flora and fauna including the Jacaranda tree, poinsettia- Brisbane’s logo, lawn and fruit are all synonymous with the Sunshine State's capital city.
Brisbane artists will unpack this colourful image of the Sunshine State capital with their own takes on Brisbane’s evolving identity.
With over 30 artworks, including 8 significant commissions by local artists alongside historical imagery, the exhibition will follow how the city’s history of migration, tourism, climate, environment and geographical location has contributed to the image of a sun-drenched city full of exotic plants and a people who live under the sun’s glare.
Queensland Ballet: Dracula
Lyric Theatre, QPAC
26 November - 4 December 2021
It’s love at first bite. Dracula, the unearthly, seductive performance of Bram Stoker’s dark love story is presented by Queensland Ballet in co-production with West Australian Ballet. This neo-classical ballet is spellbinding and will take you on a journey across centuries into a dark world where true love never dies. After a sell-out season in Western Australia, captivating audiences with evocative set design and a modern interpretation, this enthralling tale comes to life on the Queensland stage.
Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Song to Symphony - Inspirational Folk Melodies
Concert Hall, QPAC
28 November 2021
Even though music for orchestra can sometimes be perceived as complex and elaborate, some of the greatest compositions drew on simple tunes of the day.
The final Music on Sundays concert for the year features a program of music inspired by folk songs. You’ll hear Brahms’ famous Academic Festival Overture, a joyous medley of drinking songs arranged for orchestra, Copland’s superb rendering of the tune 'Simple Gifts' in his Appalachian Spring, and Dvořák’s lyrical Silent Wood which started life as a piano piece.
In this concert, Dvořák’s music will be presented in a gorgeous arrangement for cello and orchestra, featuring QSO cellist Hyung Suk Bae.
Summer events in Brisbane: December 2021 - February 2022
Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Season Closing Gala - A Musical Celebration
Concert Hall, QPAC
4 December 2021
For the Queensland Symphony Orchestra's final concert for the 2021 season, conductor Umberto Clerici will lead the Orchestra in a concert that spans three composers, countries, and styles.
First, a trip to the Italian opera hall for The Thieving Magpie Overture by Rossini, made famous in the film A Clockwork Orange, and a great curtain raiser in every sense of the word. Also on the opera theme, we have assembled a massive orchestra to perform the orchestral suite from Richard Strauss’ legendary opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose). Finally, our concert showcases the originally planed La mer (The Sea), one of Debussy’s great masterpieces - an invocation so strong, you can almost smell the salt and hear the waves.
With Maestro Clerici at the podium and one of the biggest assembly of musicians on stage this year, this will go down as an exhilarating night music-making at the highest level.
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Queensland Ballet: The Nutcracker
Lyric Theatre, QPAC
16 - 23 December 2021
Be captivated by a magical Christmas Eve story, featuring a dance by the Sugar Plum fairy and a Waltz of the Flowers in the Land of Sweets. Share the festive tradition with family and friends as Queensland Ballet brings the lovable characters of The Nutcrackerto life. With all the elements of a buoyant Christmas Eve party; a family, a surprise magician with presents, toys, a young girl and a Prince, The Nutcracker has been delighting Brisbane audiences for eight seasons.
Camerata: The Queen of the Nile
Redland Performing Arts Centre, Cleveland
17 December 2021, 7pm
Peerless Queen, fearsome leader, and an amorous lover - Cleopatra is depicted throughout history as a woman possessing legendary intelligence and enviable beauty.
Presented by Redland Performing Arts Centre, The Queen of the Nile features showpiece Baroque arias by Handel inspired by the enigmatic Egyptian monarch, alongside music by his contemporaries that will surprise and delight.
Gaining praise from critics world-wide for her ‘vivacity and clarity’, the luxurious voice of soprano Sofia Troncoso will be on full display. Sofia will feature in two arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, including the sublime Piangero, before the evening finishes with a burst of vocal pyrotechnics with music from Vivaldi’s opera Il Tigrane, inspired by the other Cleopatra, the Queen of Armenia.
Performing without a conductor, Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra celebrate an environment where all musicians take full ownership of their artform in the spirit of chamber music. Demonstrated in Heinrich Biber’s colourful and eccentric Battalia is their taste for flair, with virtuosity in full flight as Artistic Director Brendan Joyce takes a central role in in Pisendel’s Violin Concerto in D major.
Queensland Theatre: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Playhouse, QPAC
12 - 26 February 2022
Nothing good ever happens after 3am.
Nick and his wife Honey are new in town and accept an invitation to an intimate afterparty at the home of George and Martha. As the spirits flow and the conversation grows ominous, the four find themselves locked in a cruel sparring match with a hidden agenda. In the small hours of the night, this boozy gathering becomes a frenzy of savage insults, spiteful mind games and wicked humiliations.
By the time the sun rises, all secrets will be laid bare, and none of them will ever be the same again.
La Boite Theatre: Seven Methods Of...
La Boite Theatre
24 February - 12 March 2022
This duo is serving the tea hot ☕🔥 and keeping receipts. Periodt.
Forbes Magazine claims Kylie Jenner’s a “self-made billionaire” and Cleo isn’t having a bar of it. She’s got a lot to say and on the internet, actions don’t always speak louder than words…
“Look it’s two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It’s really not that deep…”
As URL beef brings up IRL tensions, Cleo and Kara have more issues than getting #blocked will solve. If Black Twitter hasn’t snatched your edges yet, these two bawss-babes surely will. seven methods of k***ing kylie jenner is a deep dive into the murky waters of colourism and the commodification of Black women.
La Boite Theatre presents a Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Green Door Theatre Production.
Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra: Four Seasons Reimagined
Concert Hall, QPAC
26 February 2022
Experience Vivaldi’s evocative masterpiece interwoven with works from some of the world’s contemporary composers. The Four Seasons has captivated audiences and music-makers the world over, and this is no exception.
In Camerata's first mainstage concert for 2022, this reimagining of The Four Seasons, intertwines Vivaldi, Max Richter (from his hit post-minimalist album, Vivaldi Recomposed), Astor Piazzolla (with a Buenos Aires tango version of “Spring”), as well as a north American season written by American fiddler, Mark O’Conner.
To evoke the intensity of Winter will be the sublime piece, “Tibetan Winter”, by Roxanna Panufnik, as well as “First Snow”, from Finnish composer, Jaakko Kuusisto.
Four Seasons Reimagined will uplift, delight, and celebrate the talent of Camerata’s Artistic Associates in solo roles. A vivid and colourful season opener, not to be missed!
Autumn events in Brisbane: March - May 2022
Queensland Theatre: First Casualty
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
12 March - 9 April 2022
Afghanistan 2011. Our Australian soldiers. A war no-one wins.
Written by a serving soldier and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, First Casualty is a debut play like no other. It’s an authentic account of the real lives of Australian troops at war — the triumphs and the tragedies, the strains and the sacrifices, the pressure and the release. There’s tension, occasional explosions of violence, and humour, but at its heart First Casualty is about the friendship of the soldiers who have given up so much for their country.
This is not an anti-war story. This is not a pro-war story. This is a story of soldiers — the sons, the husbands, the fathers, the people we love.
Queensland Theatre: don't ask what the bird look like
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
30 April - 14 May 2022
A gently funny, almost gothic tale about land, family and reconnection.
Joan needs her father. She hasn’t seen him since he left her and her Mum when she was just a little girl. She wants answers, she wants history, she wants to know more about who she is. She travels a long way into country as remote as it is strange to this city girl. She finds Mick; a man who doesn’t speak much, and who bears little resemblance to the man who taught her to play Scrabble all those years ago.
But amid the flies, the heat, the dust and the stillness of this small river town, lurk many ghosts and mysteries. Over cups of tea and Scrabble in Mick’s weather-beaten old house, Joan is about to discover some family secrets that have been hidden below the surface for decades.
Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt/Hamlet
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
28 May - 18 June 2022
To be, or not to be… theatre star Sarah Bernhardt absolutely will be.
It’s Paris in 1899, and star of the stage Sarah Bernhardt has set her sights on playing Hamlet. Too old to play the ingenue and too bored to play the stale roles written for women, the diva needs a genuine crowd-pleaser to save her debt-ridden theatre. What better work than Shakespeare’s finest play? And who better to take on the greatest part ever written than the greatest actress of the century?
A vivid real-life backstage story by American playwright Theresa Rebeck, Bernhardt/Hamlet is a fast-moving, audacious comedy about a 19th century woman issuing a challenge to the system that still resonates today. History may not repeat, but it certainly does rhyme.
Winter events in Brisbane: June - August 2022
Queensland Theatre: ROBYN ARCHER: AN AUSTRALIAN SONGBOOK, devised and performed by Robyn Archer
Billie Brown Theatre, South Brisbane
25 June - 9 July 2022
Australia as you’ve never heard it before.
Robyn Archer — Australian legend, industry pioneer and provocateur — has delighted audiences around the world with her powerhouse shows. Singing songs from the underground cabarets of the Weimar Republic, the salons of 19th century France and the folk clubs and Broadway stages of New York City, Robyn has conjured the works of Bertolt Brecht, Edith Piaf, Woody Guthrie and countless others. Now, she’s coming home.
Robyn’s wealth of musical knowledge is distilled into a fearless, political and personal celebration of the way song has shaped Australian identity. It’s a melodic road trip through more than 150 years of ‘other’ Australian song, as Robyn explores the music of her upbringing and the countless rhythms and voices that are woven into the unique sonic fabric of this country.
A trio of Australia’s finest musical artists join Robyn to transform the Bille Brown Theatre into a cabaret stage: piano accordion virtuoso George Butrumlis, actor and multi-instrumentalist Cameron Goodall of The Audreys on guitar, and composer Enio Pozzebon on keyboards.
Queensland Theatre: The Sunshine Club
Playhouse, QPAC
9 - 30 July 2022
Swing into The Sunshine Club where everyone is welcome and romances bloom. Now is the perfect time for the revival of this radiant and joyful Brisbane musical.
It’s the summer of 1946, and the war is over. Aboriginal soldier Frank Doyle has spent years fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with troops from all over Australia, but when he steps onto the Brisbane wharf he finds some things haven’t changed – despite his service. But Frank knows how to fight for his country.
It’s been a long war and Frank just wants a better life — the simple pleasures of music and laughter, a place where he can dance with Rose, the beautiful girl next door. Filled with hope and defiance, Frank sets up his own ballroom, The Sunshine Club, where everyone is invited to meet, mingle and sway the night away.
Queensland Theatre: The Almighty Sometimes
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
13 August - 3 September 2022
Medicated since she was eight, can a young woman discover who she is without the loving care that has been wrapped around her?
Anna has been on medication for so long she can’t remember who she is without it. All she knows is that once, as a little girl, she was a prodigious writing talent, in possession of a thrilling imagination. Has this been lost to years of pills and prescriptions?
Now 18, Anna is determined to find out, and the possibilities are endless. Could she go to university? Could she have a boyfriend, maybe? Could she even write a work of undeniable genius?
Filled with humour, pain, and a little bit of magic, The Almighty Sometimes explores the complexities of diagnosing children and raising teenagers towards independence.
Queensland Theatre: Shakespeare's Othello
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
10 September - 3 October 2022
Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy, betrayal and revenge lands in the Torres Strait.
The Imperial Japanese Navy bear south toward Far North Queensland and the bold Captain Othello and his battalion are all that stand in their way. Off the battlefields, Othello’s life is just as turbulent. He’s secretly married the daughter of a wealthy cane farmer and her envious, spurned suitor has joined forces with a disloyal and resentful officer in a deadly plot to bring down the renowned military hero.
Infusing the narrative of Othello with the history of the battalion brings together two powerful artistic cultures — Shakespeare and Wagadagam — creating an utterly distinctive theatre experience.
Queensland Theatre: Vietgone
Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre
29 October - 19 November 2022
A wild road-trip romance through the heartland of America.
Saigon has fallen. Helicopter pilot Quang and strong-willed Tong have both narrowly escaped the end of the Vietnam War and find themselves in a new and deeply strange country.
Thrown together in the arrival camp in Arkansas, they must navigate a mystifying dustland of rednecks, bikers, hippies and cowboys. Tong wants to make a fresh start in the land of opportunity, while Quang just wants to get home. But what if the spark growing between them was to ignite?
With its in-your-face ninja action and pulse-pounding hip-hop music, Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone is an inventive and genre-bending live-action theatrical cartoon — an irreverent, pulp fiction-style take on the love story that may (or may not) have led to his own birth.
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