New Australian writing takes the lead in Sam Strong’s inaugural season as Artistic Director.

Sam Strong’s first year as Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre (newly rebranded to drop the “Company” from the name) will see the world premieres of two ground-breaking Australian works, award-winning theatre from the USA and UK and the return of one of Queensland Theatre’s most popular pieces of Australian musical theatre.

The season is a diverse one, but it represents Strong’s ideas about the future direction of the company and its role in Queensland and the nation as a whole. “One of the things that ties the season together,” says Strong “is that it shows us to ourselves in the various contexts in which we find ourselves. Whether that’s the workplace in a play like Noises Off, the family in plays like My Name is Jimi and Once in Royal David’s City, the marriage in a play like Scenes from a Marriage or the new romance, in a play like Constellations.”

^{Queensland Theatre’s Artistic Director Sam Strong}

“Another theme that I was keen to draw out was the idea of sharing the best of...