I saw the play 'The Last Ship' on April 14th and realized that the Titanic hit an iceberg on that date and then sank on April 15th.
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| Sting speaks on his musical, The Last Ship |
'The Last Ship' isn't a play about the Titanic though; it's about a fictional ship called the Utopia.
"The 1st Immigrant Ship to sail directly from Plymouth, England 23 July 1862 to Keppel Bay, Queensland on 6 November 1862, Rockhampton, Queensland on 11 November 1862 with 324 "hand-picked" immigrants.But according to a kind of an AI search (and I don't use AI ... Google tends to feed you AI searches, whether you want them or not) the Utopia was also a ship that in 1853, transported immigrants to Australia, specifically Queensland.
The immigrants were primarily of English and Scottish descent with a few from Ireland."
'The Last Ship' was the first musical to be performed in The Glasshouse Theatre in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre complex and is right up the road from the old South Brisbane Dry Dock, which is now the Queensland Maritime Museum.To me personally, the word "Glasshouse" reminds me of the Glass House Mountains in Queensland.















