La Boite Theatre Company

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The Bitterling
17 Mar - 4 Apr

From the writer of last year's runaway hit The Truth About Kookaburras comes the haunting new play set at the height of Brisbane's disastrous 1974 floods. Fifteen years after her disappearance, Rose Cutler surfaces from the violent floodwaters that threaten the home of her mother and son. For Ruby, who was left to raise her grandson alone, her daughter's return is as astonishing as it is unforgivable. But for apocalyptic teen Kevin, his mother's emergence with the flood is an unmistakeable sign that the world is about to end...

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Blackbird
7 - 25 Apr

After sell-out seasons in London's West End and New York, David Harrower's controversial Olivier Award-winning Blackbird at last receives its Queensland premiere this April at La Boite's Roundhouse Theatre. In a debris-filled factory lunchroom, one-time lovers Ray and Una are reunited. As they sort through secrets and self-deceptions, it becomes clear that theirs was no ordinary love affair. Fifteen years ago when the 3-month relationship began, Una was just 12-years-old and Ray was her 40-year-old neighbour...

Now Playing

David Berthold directs the must-see theatrical event of 2010 in his first production as Artistic Director.

One of Australia's most riveting young actors, Toby Schmitz, stars as the Prince of Denmark in his Queensland mainstage debut, leading a top-shelf ensemble cast that includes Cocoloco's Trevor Stuart and multi Matilda Award winners Helen Howard and Eugene Gilfedder.

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Latest News

The Australian interviews Toby Schmitz
It's easy to see why Toby Schmitz is desperately keen to play Hamlet, and easier still to understand why director David Berthold has given him the opportunity. This tall, fidgety young man, with the manners alternately of a dandy or a knave, has just the kind of intelligent self-awareness to make him the perfect student of Shakespeare's tragic hero...

Book your place in La Boite's exclusive Hamlet Masterclass with director David Berthold
Working with Hamlet director David Berthold
explore the intricacies and resonances of this complex text and discover how you might use it in the classroom and in performance...

David Berthold's London West End transfer
La Boite is thrilled to announce Artistic Director David Berthold's acclaimed original production of Tommy Murphy's award-winning Holding The Man will transfer to London's West End in May, starring Kath and Kim's Jane Turner...