Tropical Arts is supporting Aaron Lee and Avril Duck’s creative development of True Friends. For more information and to go to Tropical Arts facebook event for the True Friends Presentation at Bulmba-ja from 6-7pm on Friday, 15th April at Bulmba-ja, Abbott St, click here.

Tropical Art’s “Macbeth” has very successfully launched with speeches from all the key participating partners including ARCs Disability, Deadly Hands/Deaf Services, the RADF Designers, and the Cairns Regional Council, followed by all the infamous and reknown Scottisch murder and mayhem.

It opened on Friday 23 October 2015 and is playing through to a final night on Halloween, 31 October!  Have a look at the poster and come along!

This years Shakespeare at the Tanks launched with all battles, murder and mayhem for which Shakespeare’s infamous “Scottish Play”  is reknown launched on Friday 23 October with an all inclusive caste delivering a dramatic performance of the kind that only the Tropical Arts can deliver .. this time also  in Auslang

Come along to any of the performances at Cairn’s Tanks 3 (see the poster above), noting that the final performance will be on this years Halloween Saturday 31 October 2015

FNQ One Act Play Festival

Celebrating its 59th year, the Annual FNQ One Act Play Festival is a proud tradition in our region that Tropical Arts has the pleasure of hosting in 2015. Join us at the Centre of Contemporary Arts from the 24th to 26th of July and celebrate the diverse talent this region has to offer.  For more information go to the COCA website.

Applications for the festival close June 14th.

Over the Christmas and New Year break, Tropical Arts’ members and many others interested, who enjoy our work, continued to ask THE question, “What’s next??”  Many suggestions were made, both in formal feedback sessions and social conversation.  The list was long, including one of the most popular requests – the famous Scottish Play – (I’m not sitting in a theatre now, so I may avoid various curses and type,) “Macbeth”.  “Othello” always got a mention with Warren Clements in the same breath, and “Twelfth Night”, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” amongst other comedies and histories – so the same dilemma arose – how do we make this call?  Do we need to do Shakespeare at all?  What about the wonderful “Star Wars by William Shakespeare”? or just a Dr Who version of anything would be fine…. such is our eclectic mix of madness at Tropical Arts… how do we make the decision?  And our community said, basically, collectively, “I just want to be in it!”

As nobody else was seen putting their cap in the ring to Direct the next production, it seemed that the final suggestion to the Tropical Arts Committee would fall to me.  So it was imperative that I think it through for myself too – and here’s what I came to:

1. It should be Shakespeare to build on community anticipation.
2. And anyway, Shakespeare is great for diversity, self expression and Humanity
3. Should be a comedy – I’m personally not sure (yet) about how to direct kids in the kinds of tragedies Shakespeare writes.
4. Should be more well known – tends to do better at box office.

For this reason, “Much Ado About Nothing” was high on my list.  And then, I had a discussion with our recyle nut designer, Ruby Boussard and she mentioned in passing a desire to make dragons.  Well, that was it – Benedick and Beatrice a definately dragons!  So there we have it folks, it’s been approved by the committee…

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING DRAGONS!!!

Get on board!

See you in workshops and rehearsal, backstage or in the audience!

Avril

Please watch and share our youtube clip – many of the highlights of the show are there.  A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare at the Tanks 2012.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAjmhpcwQek