Keep Sleeping, Beauty [Brisbane]
Keep Sleeping, Beauty [Brisbane]

Event Information

Date/Time

Wednesday November 11, 2026
7:30 PM

Location

New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts
97 Boundary St
Brisbane, Queensland 4101
Australia

Auslan Interpreter/s

Sofia Andersen

Language/ Cultural Consultant

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Sedated women are everywhere. In fairytales, in art, in bars and nightclubs, in psych wards, in chat rooms, in porn – it seems society loves to see a woman who’s out of it but conveniently, into it at the same time.

Psycho-siren Leah Shelton brings her signature theatricality, dark humour and high-camp performance art to a subject that has been keeping her awake at night.

Slicing through the thorny briars of a culture that attempts to tranquilise, restrain and contain women in their sleep, Keep Sleeping, Beauty explores how the fairytale dreams of yesteryear have become the nightmare reality of today.

Created by Leah Shelton (AU) and directed by Olivier award-winning Ursula Martinez (UK), the killer team behind smash hit BATSHIT returns with another searing political commentary about compliance and accountability.

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