Ten reasons you should be attending Brisbane Festival

David Berthold’s first festival as Artistic Director has much to offer: here are our anticipated highlights.
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Image: Macbeth, part of the Congo Connections program at Brisbane Festival. Photo by Nicky Newman.

When Brisbane’s Warana Festival was established in 1961, its theme was ‘entertainment for the people, by the people’; but by the 1990s Warana’s homely mix of parades, picnics, theatre and eisteddfods – not to mention the Miss Warana pageant – had become a little passé. Reborn as Brisbane Festival in 1996, the Festival has subsequently gone from strength to strength – especially since its merger with Brisbane City Council’s Riverfestival in 2009.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts