PLAYFEST 2025

THE SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS presents QUT ACTING second year actors in Playfest 2025!

THURSDAY JUNE 5

6.00pm:

All my friends are leaving Brisbane by Stephen Vagg

If you're single, in your twenties and hate your job, you've got to get out of this city.' A comedy about twenty-somethings in Brisbane trying to figure out whether they want to do 'the overseas thing' or stay in their hometown - and what they risk by choosing either option.
Warnings: This production includes coarse language and simulated intimacy.

7.30pm:

Follow me Home by Lewis Treston

Follow Me Home is a series of humorous, harrowing, and deeply human vignettes inspired by real experiences of young people who have faced homelessness. Told with heart, humour, and raw honesty, the play reveals the people behind the statistics—stories of resilience, survival, and the courage it takes to tell your truth.
Warnings: This production includes domestic and family violence, physical abuse and neglect, drug use,

FRIDAY JUNE 6

5.30pm:

Platform by Patricia Cornelius

Platform looks at the lives of young people as they struggle in an economic and political climate which promises them no future. Despair and competitiveness are the order of the day and dreams are few. But young people, as vulnerable as they are, are resilient, single-minded and can do nothing but look to the future.The lives of eight young people are played out on the platform of a modern, ugly suburban train station.

Warnings: This production includes references to domestic abuse and mental illness, portrayals of suicide, portrayals of sexual assault, portrayals of violence, homophobia.

7.30pm:

Punk Rock by Simon Stephens

"Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't ..."
William Carlisle has the world at his feet but its weight on his shoulders. He is intelligent, articulate and f***ked. In the library of a fee-paying grammar school, William and his fellow Sixth-Formers are preparing for their mock A-Levels while navigating the pressures of teenage life. They are educated and aspirational young people, but step-by-step, the disclocation, disjunction and latent aggression is revealed.

Warnings: This production includes self harm, coarse language, bullying, sexual references, violence, racisim, phycological abuse, eating disorders, use of slurs, suicide, smoking, alcohol consumption, implied domestic violence and gun violence.

SUPPORT

If you are experiencing homelessness or facing unexpected hardships, contact Ask Izzy, or call

link2home, 1800 152 152.

If this play has raised any issues or concerns for you, and you need to speak to someone,

please reach out for help. If you require immediate assistance, please call 000.

Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636

Youth Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636

Lifeline: 131 144

Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800

NSW Mental Health Line: 1800 011 511

Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467