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In 2017, when Patrick Nolan joined Opera Queensland (OQ) as Artistic Director, after five years leading the pioneering physical theatre company Legs On The Wall, part of his brief was to shake things up.
Little did anyone know that within his first two years at OQ, he would take the company into completely uncharted territory, and enter into what was then seen as a risky partnership with contemporary circus arts company Circa to produce the companies’ first ever opera/circus arts collaboration.