Queensland Theatresports Championships

The 2018 Brisbane Comedy Festival is approaching fast, and no matter what you are going along to see, you should make time to swing by the Turbine Platform to see the Queensland Theatresports Championships. Presented by ImproMafia, some of the fastest brains in the business will build scenes right in front of you with no planning and no safety net. Teams will be battling it out to see who will walk away with the trophy! So, you see, it’s theatre, and it’s also sports, thus Theatresports. Now… How do you market this to footy-crazy Brisbaneites? Clearly, a footy-theatre mashup is the way to go.

Here’s Scott Driscoll, who is extremely cool with wearing an olde type theatre ruffle collar and running about with a skull. Originally the image was going to be a solo with just Scott running with the ball, er, skull, towards the finish line.

Adding a second player to the image gave it the dynamics it sorely needed. Enter Drew Lochrie, who in his day job is one of Australia’s best pantomime horse back-ends, a challenging role that prepared him well for this one.