Creating a new Australian musical through a personal story filled with love and joy

Keir Nuttall and Kate Miller-Heidke’s 'Bananaland' promises musical fun and side-splitting hilarity with some underlying serious themes.

A brand new Australian musical, Bananaland will see the light of day as part of the upcoming Brisbane Festival in a co-presentation with the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). It is the brainchild of talented husband and wife team, Keir Nuttall and Kate Miller-Heidke, who have jointly written the lyrics and music for this comedic music theatre work.  

Phillips was impressed on reading the work and says: ‘It was drawn from a wealth of their personal experience, trying to speak their own truth, but at the same time being diverse. It’s about a lot of things in the world, other than just a struggling band. It’s social satire on very many levels and it’s been a really fun ride.’

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Suzannah Conway is an experienced arts administrator, having been CEO of Opera Queensland, the Brisbane Riverfestival and the Centenary of Federation celebrations for Queensland. She is a freelance arts writer and has been writing reviews and articles for over 20 years, regularly reviewing classical music, opera and musical theatre in particular for The Australian and Limelight magazine as well as other journals. Most recently she was Arts Hub's Brisbane-based Arts Feature Writer.