13-22 August 2026
The True Midnight Cry
If you knew the world was about to end, would you try to stop it? Or run toward it with open arms?
Presented with PIP Theatre
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The True Midnight Cry
Faith, science, and certainty collide.
Faith, science, and certainty collide in Bianca Butler Reynolds' powerful new drama, directed by Kat Dekker and featuring Bianca Butler Reynolds with Colin W Smith.
As the Millerites calculate the specific date of the Second Coming of Christ, their counterparts in the future grapple with the ethics of technology that can predict acts of mass violence.
Will faith or science be the key to ensuring the survival of the human race? Or is one the shadowy mirror of the other, with great capacity for harm?
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Recent recognition
From the Buzzie Award-winning team behind Love you hate you drive you wild.
2025
Best Original Book - Independent ProductionBianca Butler Reynolds
Love you hate you drive you wild2025
Best Director - Independent PlayKat Dekker
Love you hate you drive you wild2025
Runner Up - Best Supporting Performer Independent PlayColin W Smith
Love you hate you drive you wild2025
Runner Up - Best Comedic Play Independent ProductionLove you hate you drive you wild
Love you hate you drive you wild
What we do
Timeless stories told for now.
Minola Theatre is committed to real human stories that punch the gut, embrace the heart and challenge the mind.
Recent work
What’s come before.
PIP Theatre - 2025
Love you hate you drive you wild
Written by Bianca Butler Reynolds
2025 Buzzie Award Winner for Director and Original Book.
A comedy about depression, displacement and grabbing life by the antlers.“A brilliant black comedy”
“A truthful depiction of mental health”
“Thought-provoking and heartwarming”
Ron Hurley Theatre - 2024
Pygmalion
Written by George Bernard Shaw
"You have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her."“Laugh-out-loud funny comedic timing and physical comedy.”
Big Fork Theatre - 2023
Oh Crap Dammit: My Life with Six Kinds of OCD
Written by Bianca Butler Reynolds
Part unofficial TED Talk, part sketch show, part cabaret: a raw, funny and heartfelt expose of OCD from the inside out.“Powerful and poignant”
“Reynolds' openness to bring light to such an invisible disorder is pure courage”
Anywhere Theatre Festival - 2021
BEGOTTEN
Written by Bianca Butler Reynolds
Winner of the 2021 arTour Anywhere Festival Award.
A sceptic, a paranoiac, a criminal, a migrant, and a hostage.“Spellbinding”
“Emotional”
“Raw”
“Heart-touching”
“Beautiful and achingly sad”
Brisbane Powerhouse - 2020
SELKIE & LUNA: The DPS Lab
Selkie & Luna was developed through the DPS Academy with Dead Puppet Society and Brisbane Powerhouse.
A Selkie trapped in human form. A child born of two worlds. A sea that knows the truth.
Ron Hurley Theatre - 2019
Grace
Written by Craig Wright
A gunshot. Two identical apartments. Three dead bodies.“The Minola team has found a bright cast sharp enough to bring a slice of edgy off-Broadway to the Brisbane burbs”
Anywhere Theatre Festival - 2019
Highway of Lost Hearts
Written by Mary Anne Butler
Anywhere Theatre Festival Highly Commended (Critics' Choice)
What would you do if your heart went missing?“Oozes heart with emotional conviction and eerie isolation”
“Australian feminist theatre at its finest”
About Minola
Independent, Brisbane-based theatre with a universal perspective.
Devoted to intimate, intelligent storytelling, Minola Theatre examines big issues through productions grounded in the here and now. Led by Kat Dekker and Bianca Butler Reynolds, the company builds new Australian work, reimagines classics, and makes space for community voices.
Co-Artistic Director
Kat Dekker
Kat Dekker is a director and creative facilitator. Kat is co-Artistic Director of Minola Theatre, and is the production director for the majority of Minola's work to date. She has worked in recent years as an associate artist and assistant director for the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's mainstage and new work seasons. Kat is an occasional Teaching Artist with Queensland Theatre, working with QT's Young Artist Ensembles. Kat is passionate about empowering creative voices within communities, and has directed Shakespeare productions within the correctional system as a leader in QSE's Shakespeare Prison Project. She has also directed contemporary devised works with diverse marginalised communities in partnership with Micah Projects, Communify, Red Cross and Wesley Mission.Co-Artistic Director
Bianca Butler Reynolds
Bianca Butler Reynolds is an award-winning playwright, academic and performer based in Meanjin/Brisbane. She holds a PhD in Playwriting and Jungian psychology from QUT, and has trained with NIDA, La Boite, Playlab Theatre, Dead Puppet Society and the Arvon Foundation (UK). Bianca's original comedy Love you hate you drive you wild was published by Playlab in 2019, and Eventide, the play completed as part of her PhD, was published by Australian Plays in 2020. Her micro-drama How Long Have You Been Waiting? was awarded Best Play at the Short + Sweet Theatre Festival Melbourne in 2016. Across her varied employment history, Bianca has been an undergraduate Creative Writing teacher at QUT, a playwright-in-residence at Brisbane Arts Theatre, a performing artist for the Starlight Children's Foundation, and a youth and children's drama teacher for Perform Australia. She is co-Artistic Director of Minola Theatre.Beyond productions
Workshops and community practice.
Alongside its productions, Minola develops workshops and community projects that use performance, storytelling and playfulness to empower people to tell their own stories.
Get in touch to discuss a workshop, community project or educational offering tailored to your people and place.
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