Theatre with a shot of something on the side
Published on 03 October, 2005
Central Queensland University performing arts students will produce a ‘spoofy, madcap, hoot with lots of singing and dancing’ when they present Brasco & Yanovich.
Promoted as ‘music theatre with a shot of something on the side’, the production will be staged at the Bencke Studio, CQU’s building 4, on Friday and Saturday October 7-8 starting at 7pm.
The script has been written by first and second year Bachelor of Performing Arts students and has been directed by Howard Cassidy and Jane Bacon.
The story has a Romeo and Juliet twist with a story of two feuding families, a shot of Italian and Russian mafia, and of course it would not be complete without the gangsters, transvestites, violent grannies, manic German backpacker, mail order bride and assorted mobster backup singers.
According to Cassidy: “it’s a pastiche of Bill Shakes, Baz L, The Godfather and Pulp Fiction”.
Tickets for the show are $10 and are available at CQU Student Association Services Office and Missy Fashion K-Mart Plaza. Telephone reservations can be made on 4923 2770.
Photo above: Tegan Devine, Lynda Dowley, Tessa Coulter, Belinda Crawley and Joanna Warren prepare to dazzle audiences in their home-grown production Brasco & Yanovich.
Photo left: Tegan Devine, Lynda Dowley, Tessa Coulter, Belinda Crawley and Joanna Warren with Adam Sleeman (transvestite in the red dress) and Rob Cartright.