Highlights include Nakkiah Lui’s Black is the New White, Osamah Sami’s newly adapted memoir, and a Hedda Gabler on the coast.

Now in his second year, Artistic Director Sam Strong looks set to follow his impressive debut season with an equally intriguing 2018. With six new Australian works and four world premieres, Strong continues to demonstrate the refreshing diversity he brought to Queensland Theatre in his inaugural year.

“Like all great theatre, the 2018 season transports us to places we wouldn’t otherwise encounter – or even imagine,” says Strong. “In the coming year, audiences can be at the centre of a food fight at the Christmas dinner from Hell, evade pursuers across the Scottish highlands, wrestle with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy in Iran, help solve a 1960s murder mystery in the Western Australian Wheatbelt, become entangled in a 17th-century scientific feud, or sing melancholy love songs to the exotic Duke of a mythical realm.”

“In May, one of the most dramatic sporting moments of all time will form the springboard for a new play about football, family and faith and in November, Ibsen’s classic heroine Hedda Gabler will splash...