Fluorescent: An Emergency Festival of Original Theatre

A four-day festival of brave and brilliant original performance that had to be made, from voices that must be heard. Live. Here. Now.

On themes of identity and place, exploring interfaces between deeply personal experience and the traumas and neuroses of nations.

Showcasing:

Construction Sight
A selection of three short, freshly made works.

- He, by Salvadorian-Australian theatre practitioner Rodrigo Calderón, is a reckoning with the waters of troubled masculinity in a sleepy coastal town, on one side of the Pacific or another.
- Unearthed, from First Nations (US) queer visionary and drag artist Lindsey Stillwell, is a story told to her infant daughter, of their escape from violence, and the creation of their new life together.
- Same God Last Night, from Nambour born William Foley, is his debut as a playwright – a brave and poetic coming out, in more ways than one.

Featuring:

YAY for cane Toads!
An immersive tea party experience that gets stuck into that pantry full of stale, unfinished business, pulls out a desiccated rat and some sugar.

Locally grown writer and theatre-maker Kendra Keller (aka Lady Longdrop) is a whitefella wrestling it out with deep-tissue questions around colonial-capitalist barbarity, normalcy, amnesia and arrival. She brings this award-winning work home for its Qld premiere.