GOLDEN [LIVE music]

All that glitters is gold in this glistening musical mixtape from the award winning creators of Christmas Actually and There’s Something About Music.

SAT 28 MAY 

7.30PM 

GOLDEN 

Luke Kennedy & Irena Lysiuk

[LIVE music] on stage

GOLDEN unites superstar vocalists 

Luke Kennedy (Swing On This, The Voice AU) 

Irena Lysiuk (Your Song, Are You Lonesome Tonight), with piano virtuoso Damian Sim, for a musical celebration of contemporary music’s golden hits.

Journey with these world-class artists through a treasure trove of Hollywood and Broadway’s most-loved soundtracks and relive iconic music moments from your favourite films and stage shows, including My Fair Lady, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, An Officer and a Gentleman, A Star Is Born and many more.

Promising sparkling original arrangements, powerhouse vocals and a setlist that’s pure gold, The Little Red Company’s GOLDEN will dazzle and delight.

BOOK NOW $25; Child $12; Conc $15; Student $15

Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy shot to international attention in 2013 as Ricky Martin’s grand finalist on season two of television phenomenon, The Voice Australia. As series runner-up, Luke achieved a #1 single on the iTunes charts with of ‘Time To Say Goodbye’. His first solo album ‘A Time For Us’ debuted at #6 on the ARIA charts. Luke is a founding member of big band swing superstar Swing On This and was a member of Australian classical crossover sensation The TEN Tenors. For The Little Red Company, Luke has appeared in Rumour Has It, From Johnny to Jack, Christmas Actually, The IsoLate Late Show, There’s Something About Music and Your Song.

Irena Lysiuk
Irena is a versatile opera singer, musical theatre and pop singer. Since graduating the Queensland Conservatorium in with a Grad. Dip. in Music Studies and a Bachelor of Music, Irena has worked extensively with Opera Queensland and The Little Red Company. Irena played Gretel in OQ and
shake & stir’s school touring production Hansel and Gretel and Adina in Fizz!, as well as chorus roles in OQ’s mainstage QPAC productions including Ruddigore, Don Giovanni, A Flowering Tree, Tosca and Orpheus & Eurydice.
In 2021, she embarked on a 27-venue tour in OQ’s Are You Lonesome Tonight. For The Little Red Company, Irena has appeared in The IsoLate Late Show, Christmas Actually and Your Song.

Darren Coggan’s CAMPFIRE

 FROM THE STAR OF 'PEACE TRAIN THE CAT STEVENS STORY'

SUN 15 MAY 2PM

Darren Coggan's CAMPFIRE [LIVE] 

country music concert. 

Darren Coggan is one of Australia’s most exciting and diverse artists, a masterful storyteller with a knack of weaving fascinating and perceptive tales through his songs. Darren welcomes us to his campfire, articulating moments of laughter and reflection through timeless tunes that the whole world sang along with.

In an intimate performance, as if around a campfire, Darren introduces songs from his award-winning albums and celebrates the artists he has remarkably re-created throughout his career, including, Glen Campbell, James Taylor, John Denver and of course his hugely successful and critically acclaimed portrait of Cat Stevens, 'Peace Train - The Cat Stevens Story'.

From humble beginnings, strumming a guitar by ‘the ‘Bidgee’ river in his beloved hometown of Wagga Wagga, to selling out The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with Peace Train, Darren has forged a unique, diverse career that has seen him embrace the Australian Country Music, Musical Theatre and Television industries with aplomb.

Grab a cuppa and settle in for a sing a long around Darren Coggan's Campfire.

BOOK NOW    $25; Child $12; Conc $15; Student $15

Reviews:

“It was the boy from Wagga Wagga, Darren Coggan, who emerged as the evening’s king of hearts. Coggan has a fresh, powerful, expressive voice, and he just oozed style.” THE AUSTRALIAN

“Coggan’s musical story-telling is outstanding, as is his singing and playing." SUNDAY HERALD SUN

1RAR band fundraiser concert SAT 14 MAY 2.30pm

support Mental Health in the Outback projects

1RAR band fundraiser concert

SAT 14 MAY 2.30pm

$5 donation - ticket at the door – all proceeds to Lions.

Sausage sizzle before the show from 1.30pm outside the theatre…

Join the Band of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, on their regional Queensland tour.

A wide variety of music will be on show, so all musical tastes are guaranteed to be satisfied, performed by a 25 piece big band.

Enjoy 1RAR's first regional shows since March 2020, and support a great cause.

hosted by Lions Clubs 
with thanks to Charters Towers Regional Council

MEDEA [LIVE drama] by Shock Therapy

Drama  LIVE on stage 

60 mins

Award winning Qld performance makers Shock Therapy Productions put their signature touch on this timely Greek Classic. 

One of the great plays of the western canon, this psychological thriller follows the story of Medea, her world unravelling as she attempts to navigate the pressures of court politics, family, and discrimination within the patriarchy. Themes that are, unfortunately, just as relevant today. 

 MEDEA  [LIVE]
by Shock Therapy 

Tuesday 12 pm
10 MAY 2022

one only performance

A stylised and minimal production that combines traditional Greek Theatre, with Epic and Physical Theatre, and multiple role playing to deliver an intense and gripping experience accompanied by a thumping contemporary soundtrack.

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. 

The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason ... discover how this story ends ...

"Shock Therapy Productions has birthed a new era of performance-making"
 - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane

BOOK NOW

$20 | Conc $18 | Student $15

School groups : email to book. comp teacher group 10+

Earlybird before 31/12/21: Student $10