Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe Gets Brought to life!
THE BIG BREAKFAST WITH MARTO AND MARGAUX
Brisbane Festival
Award winning author and importantly, Marto’s “favourite journalist”, Trent Dalton is bringing his iconic Brisbane novel Boy Swallows Universe to life in a spectacular stage show this Brisbane Festival.
Speaking on The Big Breakfast with Marto and Margaux, Dalton, who like Marto, grew up in the city’s North explained how tricky it was recreate the most minute details of 1980’s North Brisbane for a stage show
“Really authentic things like, we need THIS type of Pasito can because Pasito cans looked like this in 1986”
“This is what Parramatta Eels rugby league shorts looked like in the eightees”
HEAR THE FULL CHAT HERE
Boy Swallows Universe is playing at the QPAC Playhouse until October 3rd – Tickets available HERE
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