Anywhere Theatre Festival 2019

Overview

Usually, you don't go to someone's house to see a live theatre show. You don't normally go to the ABC studios at South Bank, Mount Ommaney Shopping Centre in the western suburbs, Boggo Road Gaol, a car park or a moving bus, either. But, as its name suggests, performances can happen in plenty of places at the Anywhere Theatre Festival. In fact, bars, museums and nurseries are some of the more ordinary locations.

From Thursday, May 9 through until Sunday, May 26, this huge fest takes over Brisbane — and Noosa and the Sunshine Coast too, should you find yourself up north. You'll ponder the way the world treats women while you're hanging out in a park, watch B-movie parodies over some booze, ponder the art of winning in an arcade, laugh at improv during dinner and play drinking games in a watering hole. And, of course, the list goes on.

One musical cabaret takes place in an airport hangar, a fairy bread party will transform a botanic garden, poetry will echo through a lighthouse and a power struggle will rock Mt Coot-tha. Or, you can go on a West End toilet crawl. Yes, you read that correctly.