25 May - 16 June
Playhouse, QPAC
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Queensland Theatre Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre present Bertolt Brecht's epic morality tale about the ravages of war, given a unique twist by Queensland Theatre Company Artistic Director Wesley Enoch and Paula Nazarski in a dazzling new translation.
Instead of the Thirty Years' War of 1600s Europe, this near-future incarnation of the age-old story is set against the bleak backdrop of a post-apocalyptic desert where Mad Max might be at home -- an Australia ravaged by devastating conflict, where life is cheap but business is still business.
Ursula Yovich is the titular canteen-wagon mistress, shrewdly driving hard bargains as she shepherds her brood of three through this unforgiving, harsh wilderness.
With an all-Indigenous cast, this fresh spin on Brecht's play delicately folds in themes of land ownership, the impact of mining and the Stolen Generation.
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