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INDIA TAKES ON IBSEN'S ICONIC LOVE TRIANGLE - THE LADY FROM THE SEA

Cinematic projections, live music and tonnes of sand will help bring an epic version of Ibsen’s classic love triangle with India’s award-winning Abhinaya Theatre Company and Brisbane’s own Topology, due to hit the stage from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 February.

TEXAN'S ACTING METHOD LEADS TO MADNESS - THE METHOD GUN

From New York to LA to Brisbane – The Rude Mechs bring us a loaded gun and the world’s most dangerous acting technique when they perform in World Theatre Festival 2012. The show celebrates The Approach, Stella Burden’s gift to acting before her mysterious departure in the late 70’s and is on from 22-26 February.

BRISBANE AUDIENCES CHOOSE THEIR OWN ADVENTURE - THIS IS IT

Enjoy salacious celebrity gossip? Then you’ll love This Is It by Team MESS where you enter the theatre on a press pass and ask the stars of the movie and in-fighting. This Is It hits the stage at World Theatre Festival from Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 February.

PACIFIC COMING-OF-AGE MUSICAL PREMIERES IN BRISBANE - WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED

A new all-singing, all-dancing Pacific musical celebrating 1970’s Samoan culture will hit the stage when where we once belonged coming-of-age story performed by 14 Pacific Institute of Performing Arts Graduates from 15 –18 February 2012.

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE MASTERCLASSES AT WORLD THEATRE FESTIVAL

Artists from Italy, the UK and the US will connect with Australian theatre makers and students during masterclasses on video goggle adventures, devising new work and revisiting classics during World Theatre Festival 2012, from 17 – 25 February.

SCRATCH WORKS AT WORLD THEATRE FESTIVAL 2012

Brisbane city – the people, the places and the stories – will star in Disappearing Acts, a sound and video installation that explores the question “What is Brisbane?”. Sound Artist Kelly Ryall and Multimedia Artist Martyn Coutts are asking Brisbane-ites to get involved and tell them what you think of the city – send in photos, videos, sound recordings, written pieces or drop in for a chat.

BRISBANE POWERHOUSE WINS APAM BID

The Australia Council for the Arts announced Brisbane Powerhouse has been awarded the tender to host the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) for 2014, 2016 and 2018. The event is a significant opportunity for Brisbane Powerhouse to host artists and producers from across the world and will coincide with the annual World Theatre Festival.

Jane Birkin Sings Serge Gainsbourg

Jane Birkin is one of the world's most iconic and celebrated women. The star of film and stage; singer, songwriter and darling of the French avant Garde, Birkin tours Australia in March 2012, performing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and at the Adelaide Festival.

DARREN HANLON Announces Christmas Tour

After spending most of 2011 touring across the USA and Europe, the now homeless Australian songsmith Darren Hanlon will end the year with his customary Christmas shows.

SEE THE HUMAN FACES NOT THE FELONIES

A hard-hitting yet human photographic exhibition, Prisoners of Age, by acclaimed Canadian photographer, Ron Levine, will show for only the second time in Australia at Brisbane Powerhouse from Wednesday 19 October to Monday 21 November.