Jennifer Flowers in The Chairs (Image: Richard Whitfield)
5 June - 4 July
This is a diamond of comic and theatrical invention.
Ionesco's absurdist masterpiece is a brilliant balance of the intimate and the epic, has a cast of hundreds (OK, most of them are invisible), is highly physical (think Marx Brothers frenzy), and its climax is one of the greatest in modern theatre. In Martin Crimp's sparkling translation it's sharper and shinier than ever.
Theatre legends Jennifer Flowers and Eugene Gilfedder star, directed by Brian Lucas, the Brisbane director and choreographer with an international reputation for creating breathtaking works of physical theatre, dance and visual illusion.
The Chairs is theatre as spectacle in the manner of a fine one-ring circus. It delights the imagination - New York Times
