The Ultimate Date Night at Brisbane Festival

Transforming the Brisbane River into a dazzling choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound with floating fountains, water screens, animated water features and jets shooting up to 80 meters high. Pierced by a stunning laser light show and with an original pop rock soundtrack, this bold installation fills the Festival Village with colour, energy, and emotion. Free shows three times nightly throughout the Festival. 

This is a show that will leave you breathless. Visceral and high-octane, ESCAPE blends complex, moving architectural structures with multi-talented performers to create a blood-pumping and emotional multimedia experience.  An undefinable blend of dance, stunt work, acrobatics, circus arts, and movement, ESCAPE is athletic and completely captivating.

Direct from London’s West End, sensational singers perform stunning harmonies and foot-stomping singalongs brimming with hits from Queen to Katy Perry and more.

With a real bar on stage, come drink in the ultimate feel-good show!

Deep within the underworld, two skeleton friends dig tirelessly for fresh bones as their ancient forms deteriorate. When the Dodo miraculously sprouts feathers, chaos erupts and the order of the dead is shattered. Infused with puppetry, humour, and stunning visuals, this mesmerising musical odyssey follows their epic fight for survival, transformation, and true friendship.

A lycanthropy outbreak. A seven-day lockdown. You've been summoned to the local shelter, where three ill-equipped wardens keep watch and the atmosphere is beginning to turn. Inspired by the classic game of deception, Werewolf is an international cult hit built on suspicion, survival, and uneasy laughter.

From the writer of The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera, comes this new adaptation of the epic tale of Tiri Mahana, a 185-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to present-day Aotearoa. 

With award-winning actors Miriama McDowell (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) and Nī Dekkers-Reihana (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou), audiences are invited to a play for the whole whānau where Tiri wants us all to remember that the good things, the right things in life, are worth fighting for.  

What do you get when trees, ghosts and deer combine in a magical mix by one of Aotearoa's most ingenious dancers, storytellers and award-winning choreographers? You'll find yourself in the offbeat, playful world of Shel We by Tupua Tigafua. Off-beat, upbeat and heartwarming, Shel We has delighted audiences of all ages from New Zealand to Sweden.  

Ocean in Concert features award-winning composer Steven Price’s original score, performed live by Camerata — Queensland's Chamber Orchestra, in perfect synchronisation with the film’s spectacular imagery and Attenborough's narration. Price’s epic score to Ocean captures the drama, savagery, and beauty of the ocean’s underwater world magnifying the film’s impact, amplifying both its wonder and its urgency. “After 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.” — Sir David Attenborough

A taste of queer mayhem. When the lights drop and the pulse kicks in, SHANDY takes over Metro Arts with the kind of sweaty, euphoric chaos that only a proper queer dancefloor can deliver. An immersive fantasia where driving DJ sets, live stage performance and dancefloor collapse into one — equal parts hedonistic, tender, and made for the dark.

RocKwiz is proudly presenting a tailor-made Brisbane show. From Cloudland and Festival Hall to the Fortitude Valley Music Hall, from the Bee Gees to the ‘Finger, The Saints to Savage Garden, The Grates to The Veronicas — we will celebrate them all. From the depths of Pig City to that Striped Sunlight Sound of Robert Forster and The Go-Betweens … RocKwiz Rocks Brisbane!