2012 Performance Season Program
Welcome to Redland Performing Arts Centre’s 2012 performance season!
2012 gets underway with family music theatre production The Gruffalo’s Child, and the return by popular demand of British music legends The Searchers.
Enjoy the brilliant live acoustics of the Centre’s Concert Hall for The Australian Voices in Concert and the Australian String Quartet, who will perform with internationally acclaimed Queensland clarinet soloist Paul Dean!
Lovers of a fun night out with lots of laughs will be excited to see three great comedies and some of Australia’s finest comic talent on offer with Biddies, The Housekeeper and Chasing the Lollyman set to keep our devoted comedy fans laughing out loud!
Young children and their families can enjoy The Bugalugs Bum Thief, based on the popular children’s book by Tim Winton, and Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit, based on the books by Beatrix Potter!
Don’t miss The Weather and Your Health, a charming story of rural youth, and in the lead up to Remembrance Day, Darren Coggan in War Stories – A salute in Story and Song to the ANZAC Spirit.
Expressions Dance Company will perform award winning choreographer Natalie Weir’s - R&J, in a beautiful dance production inspired by the classic tale of Romeo & Juliet.
A special treat that people of all ages will enjoy is I, Bunyip, from Erth Visual and Physical Theatre, which explores the mystical world of creatures from our indigenous folklore, with lifelike puppets and stunning visual effects.
We hope you will join us for another year of exciting LIVE entertainment, at Your place, our place – your place…. AS YOU LIKE IT... in 2012. Your Live Performance Program 2012.
Become a subscriber by choosing any 4 or more performances of the 8 nominated subscriber shows in the 2012 program and receive great discounts off standard ticket prices!
THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD
The team behind ‘The Gruffalo’ return with the charming sequel. ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ brings together physical theatre, music and puppetry to deliver songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 4 and up, and their adults…
Saturday 18 February 10am, 12 noon & 3pm
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THE SEARCHERS – 50th ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR  Following a sold out concert in the Redlands in 2011, The Searchers are true to their word, and have included the Redlands on their itinerary for their 50th Anniversary World Tour.
Don’t miss the band behind the classic hits Sweets For My Sweet, Needles and Pins, Love Potion No. 9, Don’t Throw Your Love Away, Someday We’re Gonna Love Again, When You Walk In The Room, Sugar and Spice, and many more..
Sunday 19 February, 7.30pm
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THE AUSTRALIAN VOICES IN CONCERT
The Australian Voices in Concert, under the direction of award winning composer and artistic director Gordon Hamilton, will delight fine music lovers. Internationally recognised as one of the finest vocal ensembles of its type in the world, this talented group of young singers aged between 17 and 28 will perform a beautiful concert program, including classic sacred, romantic and renaissance music, and a range of exciting Australian contemporary compositions.
Saturday 10 March, 7.30pm
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THE WEATHER AND YOUR HEALTH
Written and performed by Bethany Simons with Andrew Dodds, and nominated for two Green Room Awards, The Weather and Your Health is a trip down memory lane.
Don’t miss this intimate play about country life, as seen through the eyes of Nan who spent her formative years in the NSW town of Gilgandra before moving to the ‘big smoke’...Dubbo!
Saturday 14 April, 2pm & 7.30pm
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NATALIE WEIR'S - R&J
Following her award-winning 2010 production Where The Heart Is, Natalie Weir creates R&J, three moving love stories inspired by the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet. Set across three different eras, this new production reinforces the notion that love – no matter what age you are, or what age you are in – is eternal and its power everlasting.
Don’t miss Queensland’s own award winning Expressions Dance Company.
R&J is Romeo and Juliet for our times...it will pull at your heart strings.
Friday 27 April, 7.30pm
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THE BUGALUGS BUM THIEF
Based on the popular children’s book by Tim Winton, The Bugalugs Bum Thief tells the hilarious tale of the town of Bugalugs, where the residents wake up one morning to find their bums missing!
Join Skeeta and his friends in this ripper adventure that will have you singing along to the catchy tunes and laughing your own bum off!
Thursday 24 May, 6pm
Friday 25 May, 6pm
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BIDDIES - By Don Reid
If you enjoyed Dirty Dusting and Menopause the Musical Musical® then Biddies is especially for you! So join us for a great night out, as some of Australia’s most beloved actresses bring this delightful new comedy to the stage. You’ll laugh till you cry. Move over Codgers, the Biddies are in town...
Vulnerable, feisty and in full bloom, these gals are everything - except old!
Friday 8 June, 7.30pm
Saturday 9 June, 7.30pm
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I, BUNYIP
Erth’s- I, Bunyip takes you on a journey through the mysterious heart of the Australian landscape with their unique life-like puppets and stunning visual effects. Well-known for their spectacular puppetry and performances, Erth’s dinosaurs and dragons have transfixed children across the globe.
Don’t miss this rare chance to meet I, Bunyip’s spirit creatures and embrace the stories that have been told since time began!
Saturday 30 June, 2pm & 6.30pm
CHASING THE LOLLYMAN
Chasing the Lollyman is a one man show devised and performed by one of Queensland’s most dynamic and funny Indigenous performers, Mark Sheppard. It is a joyous sharing of stories, a celebration of urban Indigenous identity and takes a satirical look at the media and popular culture.
Saturday 7 July, 7.30pm
THE HOUSEKEEPER
Two of Australia’s best comic actors, Evelyn Krape and Peter Moon, combine in this offbeat, delightfully zany comedy about a middle-aged, rather stuffy bachelor and the eccentric bag lady he hires as a housekeeper.
This screwball comedy will have you in stitches with its lively wit and biting humour. If you enjoyed Dirty Dusting then don’t miss The Housekeeper! One performance only!
Saturday 4 August, 7.30pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER RABBIT
Celebrate the 110th Anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s beloved classic with Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit, a mischievous musical about the world’s most loveable bunny.
If you loved My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch, then don’t miss this magical musical...
Friday 24 August, 6.30pm
Saturday 25 August, 10.30am & 1pm
AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET
Redland Performing Arts Centre is delighted to present the Australian String Quartet, who will perform in the Centre’s beautiful Concert Hall, with internationally acclaimed Queensland clarinet soloist Paul Dean.
Tuesday 18 September, 7.30pm
WAR STORIES
A Salute in Story and Song to the ANZAC Spirit
Inspired by his own family history, performer Darren Coggan connects us to an iconic part of our heritage.
Personal and exceptional stories of Australians at war are woven into songs that provide an intimate perspective of the tales that have helped shape our nation.
Sunday 28 October, 2pm
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