La Boite Encores brings the 100-year-old company’s past to vivid life

Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre has announced the titles of 10 plays selected for its 10-week Encores play reading series.
One of the plays being staged as rehearsed readings for the La Boite Encores program: 2015’s visceral ‘Prize Fighter’ by Future D. Fidel. The image shows a young Congolese man wearing boxing shorts and boxing gloves as he throws a punch with his left hand.

A new play reading series revives 10 significant Australian plays from the archives of La Boite, Australia’s oldest continuously running professional theatre company.

La Boite Encores, running from 28 April to 1 July, features 10, one-night-only rehearsed readings of plays such as boy girl wallPrize Fighter and Single Asian Female. Most of the works selected for the play-reading series of 10 plays over 10 weeks are strongly associated with La Boite – indeed, all but two of the plays had their world premieres at the theatre.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts