Featuring: Belle Harsono as Sam, Bailey Gardiner as Edward, Heidi Xuan as Captain and Amber Tressider as Jyll

Turbulent is a comedic play about three people from very different walks of life being stuck sitting in the same row on a long-haul flight. The three of them couldn’t be more different with Jyll being a nervous flyer, Edward being an overly positive therapist, and Sam being far wiser, older and blunter than the other two. Through a series of mishaps, blurted out backstories and the revelation that these three’s lives may be just as turbulent as the plane ride they’re taking, they become friends. Although this piece is comedic, it has a very real element of exploring human connection and what it means to love someone. I believe that showing performances that emphasise these themes has become increasingly important over the last few years, as our ever changing world has begun to feel more isolated.

Content Warnings: Coarse language; References to grief, addiction and aerophobia.

Featuring: Abbey McKeon as Celine, Jemima Willey as Darcy and Mia Chapman as Customers

Celine is in the Spotlight. No, literally — one of Brisbane’s finest retail institutions. Every Thursday night, she finds herself surrounded by feathers, fabric and enough neon to question a person’s life choices.

But tonight it‘s going to change. This is her last shift.

Celine is leaving Brisbane and as far as she’s concerned, nothing holding her back.

Except, perhaps: Darcy.

Headless Chooks is a funny, frantic and slightly ridiculous play about friendship, fear, and the things we are to afraid to say out loud.

Content Warnings: Obscene Language

Featuring: Ollie Campbell as Lord Gonzalo and Kate Clifton as Lady Laura

What would you do if you unexpectedtly ran into your long-lost lover? A Sunny Morning follows Lady Laura and Lord Gonzalo experiencing exactly that after they are forced to share a bench at the park. However, after their bickering turns into playful banter, both characters choose to not reveal their true identity and attempt to glorify their younger selves.

We are currently in a world in which Euro-Summers, getting your dream job, being extremely fit and finding the love of your life are viewed as the ‘must haves’ for your late teens and twenties; with the years after being dismissed as ‘too late’. Therefore, this production of A Sunny Morning aims to encourage the questioning of society’s emphasis that our younger years are our best years, and to prompt the consideration that the love and life experienced later in life can be just as fulfilling and exciting.

Content Warnings: Reference to suicide and combat fatality

Featuring: Sophie Brunckhorst as Puck, Sarah Russell as Oberon, Freya Griggs as Lysander/ Demetrius and Matilda Crawford as Hermia/ Helena

Sometimes, the biggest mistake is thinking you know what love is.

MISTAKES MADE DURING THE MIDSUMMER is a contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following Puck as a magical mistake turns four lovers’ relationships upside down.

Blending Shakespeare’s original text with modern dialogue, this production explores the unpredictability of love and the consequences of trying to control something we do not fully understand. Through comedy, character doubling and playful performances, I hope to embrace the absurdity of love while reminding audiences that it is rarely as simple as it seems.

Content Warnings: Not applicable

Featuring: Amelia Duda as Traveller, Hanif Idlal Muhammad as Stranger

Have you ever felt like you're waiting for your life to begin? On Platform No. 3, a traveller and a stranger wait for their train to arrive, and in the process learn what it is to be human in a world shaped by machines. Our contemporary moment is isolated and algorithmic: we see what we want to see and nothing (and no one) else. This play disrupts that condition by asking what it means to have an identity in an age of anonymity?

Content Warnings: Sudden loud noises

Featuring: Zach Thomas-Greer as Seymour, Naomi Ura as Mr Mushnik, Agus Poenitz as Adrian

Can comedy reveal the darker side of human nature? Or does it hide it?

Little Shop of Horrors is a horror/comedy that draws its audience in through its dark themes, delivered with a comedic twist. The original 1960s movie introduces the characters of Mr Mushnik, Seymour, and Audrey (Adrian in this adaptation) – characters who personify recognisable tropes. Their cliché characters initially drew me into the material, but making a twist on their characters, particularly Seymour’s, allows for the genre of horror within the text to be more active and obvious. As the performance goes on, more sinister themes are shown through Seymour’s obsession with Audrey and Mushnik’s heinous idea to bid on the plant and the implications of this.

With movies like Obsession coming out, human nature and our morality are under a microscope. What do we want? And what will we do to take it? My adaptation answers this through dark humour concealing true motives.

By challenging the audience's expectations of Little Shop of Horrors, I want the line between comedy and horror to blur, asking the audience how easy comedy can become horror, while also questioning how innocent characters under sinister situations can reveal darker aspects of human nature.

Content Warnings: References to violence; Implied murder

Featuring: Theo Rich as Bill and Jadyn Koh as Betty

Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and wanted to take something back that you said? Get excited for David Ives' Sure Thing, a Rom-Com piece that sees Bill and Betty regret almost everything they say. Can they come back from it? What will happen to their relationship? This amazing text comments on us as people and our constant attempts to present ourselves as polished and refined people. But, as we all know, this takes exceptional effort and is impossible as imperfect humans. Watch as the stage holds memories of forgotten conversations and enjoy the comedy that is about to unfold. What could possibly go wrong?

Content Warnings: Not applicable