AboutFran Gibson, Author at The Creative Issue
Just Doing It With Emily Tresidder
March 7, 2019 | Fran GibsonI want to be Emily Tresidder’s friend. There’s something about her – her frankness, her openness, or just the fact she’s really flippin’ funny. Getting stuck in a lift with her wouldn’t be so bad.
St Kilda: Australia’s largest free festival
January 30, 2019 | Fran GibsonHeading to Australia’s cultural capital in February?
If so, pop the St Kilda Festival in your diary. Read More
Chanteuse Clara Luciani brings Paris to the Powerhouse
January 17, 2019 | Fran GibsonYou needn’t have chafed under the yoke of the Norman Conquest for a millennium to understand implicitly that the French do it better. Food. Wine. Kissing. French is best. Read More
Elixir: suggestive circus wows Wonderland
December 5, 2018 | Fran GibsonDid someone say smouldering, suggestive, somersaulting, sultry, subversive, sci-fi circus? Read More
Rumble! at Wonderland Reviewed
December 4, 2018 | Fran Gibson‘I’ve seen both their genitals!’ boasts Tina Bikki of Egson Ham and Rosie Rivette, tonight’s Rumble contenders.
The Epicurean Shark
December 2, 2018 | Fran GibsonThe Epicurean Shark bills itself as a comedy show seeking answers to one of life’s biggies: why does being bad feel so good? Read More
Jury’s out on Bitch on Heat
November 29, 2018 | Fran Gibson‘It was moving poetry!’
‘It was problematic!’
‘It was honest. Haven’t you ever felt like that?’
‘I’d have walked out if the genders had been the other way round.’
If nothing else, Bitch on Heat is divisive. Read More
Opera Queensland go country for Composed in Queensland
November 27, 2018 | Fran GibsonThink Barcoo Shire in central west Queensland – an area equal to Belgium and Taiwan combined, with a population that couldn’t fill two CityCats – and it’s unlikely you’ll think of opera.
Interview: Head First Acrobats on sexy circus show Elixir
October 30, 2018 | Fran GibsonCircus gets sexy with Thomas, Cal, and Rowan – the toned, taut stars of Elixir – a genre-defying show somersaulting into the Powerhouse next month as part of the Wonderland Festival. Read More
Phil Barlow and Daryl James on the rise of the house gig
October 17, 2018 | Fran GibsonExperience live music beyond the confines of traditional venues, with Brisbane troubadours Phil Barlow and Daryl James. Read More
Faith and Science Clash in Nearer the Gods
October 6, 2018 | Fran GibsonIsaac Newton – inventor of calculus, godfather of physics, and the scientist Einstein admired – is the subject of Nearer the Gods, David Williamson’s (The Perfectionist, Gallipoli) new play, premiering this weekend as the first performance in the Bille Brown Theatre. Read More
Raise a glass to gin-soaked cabaret Mother’s Ruin
September 23, 2018 | Fran Gibson‘It’s a good time though!’ exclaims blonde bombshell Libby Wood to a concurring crowd. As one half of Mother’s Ruin – one third if we count Jeremy on piano’s speakeasy charm – she could be describing her own show. Read More
Winning Couple: An Evening with Bob Carr and Germaine Greer
September 14, 2018 | Fran GibsonOn paper, Bob Carr and Germaine Greer make unlikely bedfellows. He’s an ex-politician. And she’s Germaine bloody Greer, second-wave feminism’s most vocal proponent. Read More