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OCTOPOLIS

By Marek Horn

DATES

May 14 - 24

VENUE

PIP Theatre, Milton

CREATIVES

CAST

Playwright Marek Horn
Director Bronwyn Nayler
​Dramaturg Lachlan Driscoll
Choreographer Sherri Smith
Movement & Intimacy Coach Sherri Smith
Lighting & Video Design Teddy Waddingham
Sound Design Lachlan Driscoll
Stage Manager Libby Harrison

Caroline Sparrow
Dudley Powell

A co-production with PIP Theatre

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TICKETS

Adult $46
Concession / Student / MEAA $31
Preview $23
Pay What You Can (Wed 21 May)

SHOWINGS

Wednesday 14 May 6.30pm
Thursday 15 May 7pm
Friday 16 May 7pm
Saturday 17 May 7pm
Wednesday 21 May 6.30pm
Thursday 22 May 7pm
Friday 23 May 7pm
Saturday 24 May 7pm

A play with two actors (and one octopus)

This smart and moving romcom is a fascinating exploration of what makes us human.

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Meet George: professor, octopus expert and…professional hermit? Her most intimate relationship these days is with the clever Frances, an octopus she obsessively studies. Never leaving her cloistered university accommodation, George is content with sunrise yoga and not checking her inbox.

 

Enter Harry: an anthropologist with big theories and even bigger ambitions. He’s French and a Doctor, so he’s a pretty big deal. His latest idea? A groundbreaking new theory about Frances that could change George’s world forever…

 

Sparks fly, tanks bubble, and somewhere between the academic rivalry and tangled tentacles, the two of them might just uncover something new about themselves, Frances, and human-kind itself.​​

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“This is a romcom that has legs. Strikingly original and highly entertaining... smart, slightly surreal and quietly touching” The Stage

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​“An intricately intellectual piece of theatre, diving headfirst into questions of sentience, religion, grief, and community from a uniquely smart writer” Broadway World

WARNINGS

This production contains strong coarse language, sexual references, and discussions around grief and death

RUN TIME

100 minutes, no interval

ACCESSIBILITY

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Click here for access at PIP Theatre

Post-Show Chats

Free post-show discussion and Q&A with the theatre-makers of Octopolis. Come and join the conversation.

 

Saturday 17 May (After the 7pm performance)

Friday 23 May (After the 7pm performance)

GETTING HERE

20 Park Road, Milton, Brisbane. Click here for details on location, parking and public transport

Observatory Theatre 2025

Brisbane, QLD, Australia

 

Email: producer@observatorytheatre.com

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We recognise the traditional owners of the sacred land Meanjin, the Jagera and Turrbal peoples, on which we work and create. We acknowledge that this has always been a place of storytelling. We affirm that sovereignty has never been ceded. Now more than ever, this will always be Aboriginal land.

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