#World Premieres

This year, bold Brisbane artists are once again the heroes - their stories and their imagination at the heart. We're extremely proud to welcome the following new works to the 2022 program.

To move forward, we look to the past in the world premiere of Anna Yen's Slow Boat 緩舟. Inspired by Anna's father's arrival to Brisbane post World War II, her incredible new production demonstrates how compassion and friendship bring new hope and a new life.

Queer-Glory. Op-Shop-Rich. Dance.

At this holy gay altar, witness the journeys of displacement, queer liberation and the euphoria of culture as explored through poetry, music and dance by Meanjin-based revolution, The Naavikaran Collective. Brown Church centres queerness as a central faith, bringing out the exuberant need to realise colonisation in order to destroy it.

Gonna steal ya hearts, like ya stole our land.

When politicians threaten to tear down All Ways, a karaoke bar and skating rink run by local matriarch, to make way for new ‘cultural’ attractions, the crew from the ‘wrong’ side of Restriction Avenue have to find a way to rewrite the past to save their beloved place.

#Storytelling through dance, music and artistic aerials.

Movement and music are a universal language. Here are the productions that transcend barriers to bring remarkable stories with meaningful messages.

How would you feel if gutter guards and ramps were installed in advance to prevent any possibility of your failing to hit the pins at a bowling alley? Expect an unexpectedly real dance theatre that is collaboratively devised, inclusive and informed by disability in a ten-pin bowling alley.

Considerable Sexual License is part-disco, part-confessional, all-awesome. Go on a journey with proud Wiradjuri man Joel Bray and his remarkable team of collaborators as they reject the conservative straightness of sexual politics in Australia.

Nominated for 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Sold-out seasons on Broadway and the West End.

A captivating story of American life in 1934 Minnesota. A group of wanderers cross paths at a guesthouse. Standing at a turning point in their lives, they realise nothing is what it seems, but as they search for a future, and hide from the past, they find themselves facing unspoken truths about the present. More than 20 songs of Bob Dylan are reimagined and interwoven into this deeply moving story.