Live Broadcast for QPAC’s Glasshouse Theatre: The Last Ship

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Our crew worked on QPAC’s free opening-night livestream of The Last Ship, the first live broadcast from the new Glasshouse Theatre.
• Eleven cameras of three different types were shaded live from two control positions so every cut matched.
• The stream ran as two SRT paths, a main and a backup, so a second route was already running if one had a problem.

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SUMMARY

OPENING NIGHT, LIVE ACROSS QUEENSLAND

The Last Ship was the first international production to play QPAC’s new Glasshouse Theatre, with Sting in the lead role and Shaggy on stage alongside him. For opening night on Saturday 11 April 2026, QPAC streamed the show live and free to communities right across Queensland.

Our crew worked with the QPAC team on that broadcast, across cameras, PTZs, camera control and the stream itself. It was the first live broadcast out of the Glasshouse, and one we’re pretty proud to have been part of.

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A FULL HOUSE IN BRISBANE, AND A LOT MORE AROUND THE STATE

QPAC put the stream on for regional and remote Queenslanders who can’t easily get to Brisbane, with theatres like the Pilbeam in Rockhampton screening it live on the night.

For a lot of that audience, the broadcast was the show, so it had to carry the scale of a full musical, not just record what happened on stage.

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ELEVEN CAMERAS, ONE LOOK

The camera map ran to eleven cameras, with four URSAs, four Sony FR7 PTZs and three Blackmagic Micros spread around the theatre. Our crew was there from 8 April, working through the rehearsals leading into opening night.

Camera control was split across two positions, shading live so a cut from an URSA to an FR7 or a Micro didn’t change the look of the stage. Theatre lighting moves all night, and the pictures had to follow it without anyone watching the stream noticing.

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BUILT SO THE STREAM DOESN’T DROP

The programme feed went out through an AJA Bridge Live as two SRT streams, a main and a backup, into Brightcove and on to QPAC’s Digital Stage platform. If one path had a problem, the other was already running.

Before going live, we recorded the programme feed, lined it up in Resolve and told the audio team exactly how many frames to shift, so every song landed in time with the picture.

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THE RESULT

A live opening-night broadcast of The Last Ship from QPAC’s Glasshouse Theatre, streamed free to audiences across Queensland, with Inverse crew on cameras, camera control and the stream.

Sting had the stage. We made sure the rest of Queensland had a seat.