Frogman

Overview

With Frogman, virtual reality meets live performance — and the Brisbane International Film Festival comes to the Brisbane Powerhouse. That's not the end of the production's mash-ups, with 1995 crossing paths with 2018 and the Great Barrier Reef coming to our fair city.

In 1995, 13-year-old Ashleigh Richardson goes missing in Queensland's north. 11-year-old Meera is having a sleepover with her best friends Lily and Shaun, while police divers search the reef via torchlight. Then, in 2018, Meera finds her work in a coral laboratory interrupted when a police officer wants to revisit the case.

With only 60 people admitted per session, Frogman unravels its contemporary storyline live on stage, starring performer Georgina Strawson. As for its 1995 segments, audiences experience them through the sensory 360-degree film and binaural sound capabilities of VR. It's safe to say that you haven't been to a blend of movie and theatre like this before, with the show running twice daily between Wednesday, October 17 and Sunday, October 21.