| Miracle in Brisbane - Sold Out |
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| Presented by | Brisbane Festival 2009 |  | | Dates | Thu 1 Oct 2009 - Sat 3 Oct 2009 | | | Time | 7.30pm
Latecomers are NOT admitted into performance. | | | Cost | Unreserved Theatre Seating:
Full: Web/Phone/Door $35
Concession: Web/Phone/Door $25
Groups (10 or more): $25
School Groups (10 or more students): $20 (1 teacher's comp per group of 10)
Note: Group bookings by phone only | | | Concession | Pension card holders, senior card holders, full-time tertiary students, unwaged and persons aged 26 and under. As proof of eligibility is required when purchasing concession tickets, these tickets will be held at box office. | | | Venue | Performance Space (Unreserved Theatre Seating) | | | Enquiries | Box Office: Monday to Friday
12 noon - 4pm. 07 3872 9000
or email boxoffice@jwcoca.qld.gov.au | | | Artform | Music - Contemporary Opera, Orchestral | | | Type | Performance |
An outstanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cast, including Aaron Fa'Aoso, Deborah Mailman, Djakapurra Munyarrayan and Casey Donovan, brings to life an opera composed by Giorgio Battistelli and directed by one of Australia’s most accomplished directors, Rhoda Roberts.
This central and important work is produced by Brisbane Festival 2009 and tells the story of a group of homeless Indigenous people ‘living on country’ who build a shantytown on Brisbane’s outskirts. The discovery of oil under the site leads them to acknowledge ancestral spirits and the life-changing wealth of the land, but people with powerful interests soon start making other plans.
Miracle in Brisbane, through music, dance and ceremony touches on many powerful symbolic moments. From the removal of a baby girl, the rebuilding of family, clan relations and the gradual invasion of sacred country by the city’s looming development.
Most powerfully, the message that the poor do not have a voice is illustrated by the primarily Indigenous cast. The sounds of the shantytown construction form part of Battistelli’s wonderful musical score, which features The Queensland Orchestra and the Canticum Chamber Choir.
In Battistelli’s own words, Miracle in Brisbane is a form of ‘voiceless’ protest against inhumanity and highlights the incontrovertible rights of marginalised people to stake a claim in a world that ignores them. But both surprising and revolutionary is the final theme of Miracle in Brisbane – hope.
Presented by Brisbane Festival 2009.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This project has been supported by Treading the Pathways, an Ausdance National and Australia Council strategic partnership. Treading the Pathways is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board.
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