Vision Australia Audio Description Service
Brisbane 2015
Audio Described Performances at QPAC
Corner Grey and Melbourne StreetSouth Bank 4101
The Lion King
Audio Described Performance
Sunday 11 January at 1pm Phone 136 246
Synopsis
Disney's landmark musical eventTHE LION KINGis a worldwide phenomenon that will redefine your expectations of theatre.
Brilliantly re-imagined by acclaimed directorJulie Taymor, Disney's beloved film is transformed into a spectacular theatrical experience which has won over 70 major international theatre awards.
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains, this breathtaking production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and unforgettable music includingElton JohnandTim Rice's Circle of Life, Hakuna Matataand the academy award winningCan You Feel the Love Tonight?
Boston Marriage - QTC
By David Mamet
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 7 February at 2pm Phone 136 246
Cast includes Amanda Muggleton
Synopsis
The play is a quick-fire comedy riddled with wicked wit. With sarcasm and ribald banter it chips away at the pretensions and proprieties of high society and blows apart class distinction, while exploring the compromise needed to keep a marriage alive.
Wicked
Audio Described Performance
Wednesday 4 March at 1pmPhone 136 246
Synopsis
WICKEDis the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKEDtells the enthralling story of two unlikely friends and how they became the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
Mother and Son - QTC
By Geoffery Atherden
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 7 March at 2pm Phone 136 246
Cast includes Noeline Brown, Darren Gilshenan, Rob Carlton, Nicki Wendt, Rachael Beck and Robyn Arthur
Synopsis
Long-suffering second son Arthur, who has sacrificed so much to care for his mother Maggie, would just like a few weeks’ holiday with his new flame Anita. His philandering dentist brother Robert is no help, and manipulative Maggie is out to sabotage Arthur’s chances.
Vague but vicious and more arsenic than old lace, Maggie would have Arthur tied to her apron strings for life, if she could just remember where she put the apron ...
La Sylphide - Queensland Ballet
ChoreographerPeter Schaufuss, after August Bournonville,
ComposerHerman Severin Løvenskjold
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 28 March at 1.30pm Phone 136 246
Synopsis
Woken on his wedding morning by a beautiful, winged sylph, the Scotsman James is utterly bewitched.
Elusive and playful, she professes her love for him. James's obsessive pursuit of the otherworldly creature leads him to abandon his fiancée and follow the sylph into the dangerous realm of the forest sprites. Here, he realises that in reaching for unattainable love, he has lost everything.
Brisbane - QTC
By Matthew Ryan
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 2 May at 2pm Phone 136 246
Cast includesConrad Coleby, Lucy Goleby, Dash Kruck and Melanie Zanetti
Synopsis
Brisbane, 1942: a big country town jumping at shadows, never knowing if that buzz in the air is a cicada or a squadron of merciless Japanese Zeroes. World War II took the city’s innocence, and that of 14-year-old Danny Fisher.
Danny's dashing pilot brother has been killed in the Bombing of Darwin. As Danny's devastated family unravels, the teen finds a surrogate sibling in Andy, one of the Americans stationed in Brisbane. The American pilot takes Danny under his wing, and as the tension begins to rise between the Yank and Aussie servicemen, Danny hatches a reckless revenge plan against those who took his brother.
A QTC world premiere drawing on true stories from the leafy streets of Brisbane in the middle of wartime, it is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale, with moments of sublime comedy amid a heartfelt tale of a family fragmented by tragedy. A living, breathing picture postcard from a time that could have been the making or breaking of a city.
Dirty Dancing
Audio Described Performance
Wednesday 3 June at 1pm Phone 136 246
Synopsis
An unprecedented live experience, this worldwide smash-hit explodes with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing.
Seen by millions across the globe, it's the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds, who come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives.
Featuring hit songs, including "Hungry Eyes". "Hey Baby", "Do You Love Me?" and the heart stopping "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" it's an unforgettable live experience.
Peter Pan
ChoreographerTrey McIntyre
ComposerSir Edward Elgar, arranged by Niel DePonte
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 4 July at 1.30pm Phone 136 246
Synopsis
Wendy and her two brothers literally fly into the adventure of a lifetime whenPeter Panleads them to a fantastical dream world of fairies, mermaids, pirates, and one very large crocodile.
With swashbuckling swordfights, giant puppets and breathtaking flying sequences, Trey McIntyre'sPeter Panuses a brilliant mix of dance and theatre to tell the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Told from a child’s perspective, this imaginative, poignant ballet re-interprets J M Barrie's famous story with wit, verve and a distinctly modern spirit.
Anything Goes- Opera Australia
By Cole Porter
Audio Described Performance
Wednesday 5 August at 1.30pm Phone 136 246
Cast includes Caroline O’Connor, Todd McKenney, Alex Rathgeber, Claire Lyon, Wayne Scott Kermond, Debora Krizak, Alan Jones
Synopsis
Anything Goesis a stunning nautical favourite. For decades,Anything Goeshas captivated millions with its delightful story of madcap antics aboard the S.S. American. This dazzling musical celebration features a hilarious tale of topsy-turvy relationships, mistaken identities and foiled plots, peppered with some of musical theatre's most memorable standards includingYou're The Top,I Get A Kick Out Of You, and of course the title song,Anything Goes.
The Sleeping Beauty – Queensland Ballet
ChoreographerGreg Horsman, after Marius Petipa
ComposerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 24 October at 1.30pm Phone 136 246
Synopsis
At her 16th birthday party, Princess Aurorapricks her finger on a rose thorn andsuccumbs to a spell cast upon her at herchristening by the wicked fairy Carabosse.The Lilac Fairy intervenes and causes anenchanted sleep to descend upon the palace.After one hundred years, Aurora is wokenfrom her slumber by a Prince’s gentle kiss,and joyous celebrations follow.Set to Tchaikovsky’s famous music,The Sleeping Beautyis a classical masterpiece.With majestic sets and Renaissance-inspiredcostumes, Greg Horsman’s productionhonours tradition and sparkles withspectacular choreography and a cast offanciful characters.
The Odd Couple - QTC
By Neil Simon
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 31 October at 2pmPhone 136 246
Cast includesJason Klarwein and Tama Matheson
Synopsis
Suddenly single after his wife throws him out on the street, despairing journalist Felix reluctantly accepts the hospitality of his buddy Oscar, a sportswriter and Grade A slob.
Oscar’s sprawling apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side would once have been palatial – but after his own recent divorce, he lives in the midst of an ever-growing midden of domestic detritus. A big spender, a problem gambler, a hedonist, a boozer and a rake, he’s everything the neurotically neat and fastidious Felix is not. They’re the best of pals, but living together is proving a bit of a stretch.
Ladies in Black - QTC
Adapted from Madeleine St. John’s novel by Carolyn Burns
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 28 November at 2pm Phone 136 246
Synopsis
Step through the doors of F.G. Goode’s department store and into a marvellous musical whirl of glitz and glamour withLadies in Black. The world premiere adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 novel, The Women in Black, is brought to life by internationally-acclaimed director Simon Phillips (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Love Never Dies) with original music from superstar singer and musician, Tim Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House).
Sydney is crossing the threshold between the stuffy repression of the 1950s and the glorious liberation of the 1960s. Bright-eyed bookish school leaver Lisa is to join the sales staff in the city’s most prestigious department store. In that summer of innocence, a world of possibilities opens up as she befriends the colourful denizens of the women’s frocks department – including her new mentor, the exotic European Magda, mysterious mistress of the gowns.
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