Queensland Theatre Company is the state's flagship professional theatre company, headed up by multi-award winning playwright and director Michael Gow. Each year Queensland Theatre Company presents a season of nine plays — comedies, classic drama and new Australian work.
The company has a strong history of development programs and is dedicated to encouraging artistic growth across the state through its emerging artists program, writing program – which includes the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award – and regional partnerships program.
Emphasis is also placed on developing and inspiring young people through the company's youth & education program, with specially devised education performances, theatre skills courses, a playwriting program and more. During 2009, there are three Education shows: Maxine Mellor's Mystery Project, Bertolt Brecht's The Exception and the Rule and David Brown's Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed.
The Company is principally supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Actors who began their career with Queensland Theatre Company include Geoffrey Rush, Bille Brown, Kate Foy (current Chair of the Board of the Queensland Theatre Company and Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Southern Queensland), Carol Burns, Babette Stephens, Diane Cilento, and many others.
The foundation Artistic Director was Dr. Alan Edwards AM MBE. He was succeeded in the position by Aubrey Mellor, Chris Johnson, Robyn Nevin and the current Artistic Director and playwright Michael Gow. Other directors for the company have been Gale Edwards, Joe McCallum, Murray Foy and David Berthold.
Productions
Season 2009 features the latest Australian and international works as well as great theatre classics:
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
That Face by Polly Stenham
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
25 Down by Richard Jordan
The School of Arts by Bille Brown
Ninety by Joanna Murray-Smith
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Toy Symphony by Michael Gow
External links
- Queensland Theatre Company - official website
- Royal Queensland Theatre Company (plays presented until 2001) - Australian Performing Arts (list incomplete)
- Queensland Theatre Company - (plays presented from 2001) - Australian Performing Arts (list incomplete)
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