Brisbane’s Shake & Stir Theatre Co is renowned for its stage adaptations of literary classics. Ahead of a tour of Frankenstein, co-produced with John Frost for Crossroads Live, and the world premiere of GRIMM at the Brisbane Festival, Jo Litson talks to two of the company’s Artistic Directors.

Shake & Stir Theatre Co Frankenstein
A promotional image of Darcy Brown who plays Frankenstein in Shake & Stir Theatre Co’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. Photo © Joel Devereux

When Brisbane’s Shake & Stir Theatre Co premiered its production of Frankenstein at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre last October, the season sold out before the show opened, such is the regard and affection with which the independent company is held in its home state.

“The team at Shake & Stir...