A very special Ballet

On Sunday I had the wonderful opportunity to accompany my sister and Miss R to a special performance by the Queensland Ballet.

For a short season (about 10 days) the Queensland Ballet is putting on a production titled 

The Little Green Road to Fairyland 

which is an original and unique performance designed to introduce ballet to children.

It first premiered earlier in the year in regional Queensland as part of the Queensland Music Festival and is now enjoying a short season at the Playhouse Theatre in Brisbane.

The easiest way for us to get there was to catch the train as there's a station right next to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.  The Performing Arts Centre is at South Bank in Brisbane where I spent a few days in April so it was nice to revisit there for a few hours.

It was a pretty exciting day out for my girl, not only catching the train but being in the city which she's only been to once and then going to the Ballet.

We had lunch at one of the cafe's at the performing arts centre.  It was a beautiful, clear winter's day but the breeze was a bit chilly so we were pretty happy to get inside the theatre for the performance.

As the ballet targets a younger audience, there's no interval and the whole performance lasts for one hour which is pretty well the limit of the attention span of many of the kids.

We also attended a special session designed with kids with sensory needs in mind so they dim the lights but don't turn the house lights off fully.  They also allow you to bring in fidget toys for the kids if they need them as well as ear plugs for the ones that are affected by loud noises etc.

As the place is half full of children some of the usual theatre rules are relaxed but the kids love it.

No pictures of the performance are allowed to be taken so you just get selfies of us at the theatre and the above photo of Miss R with her favourite Aunty, my sister Sandra.

A big huge and humungous THANK YOU to my sister's best friend Donna (who also happens to be hubby's cousin), for gifting us with these tickets when she first found out about the performance.  She thought of Miss R and knew that the three of us would love this special day together...and we did.

xx Susan