If the Australian media understood theatre instead of dissing it, we might have a better chance of seeing our politics clearly. Alison Croggon explains why.
New on Witness
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Robert Reid on MKA’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney
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“Think it can’t happen again? It’s already happening.” Robert Reid on two unsettlingly timely productions – Robyn Archer’s Dancing on the Volcano and Michael Gurr’s Crazy Brave
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Bookings are now open for the August Live Night, Dybbuks at Theatre Works, in which Samara Hersch and her collaborators explore the many ways that the dead inhabit female bodies through language, voice, memory and desire.
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Video: Robert Reid talks to Claudia Funder from the Australian Performing Arts Collection about their astounding collection.
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This production insists, gently but powerfully, on the human contact at the heart of performance.” Alison Croggon on Taha, Amer Hlehel’s tribute to the great Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali
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Witness First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee says Nakkiah Lui’s Blackie Blackie Brown is exactly the superhero she needs
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If the Australian media understood theatre instead of dissing it, we might have a better chance of seeing our politics clearly. Alison Croggon explains why.
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When representation isn’t enough: Tom Middleditch of A_tistic Theatre looks at the knotty question of diversity in creative teams
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“You can write what you know without writing the literal occurrences of your own personal life.” Playwright Jean Tong is over her work being read as autobiographical.
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When we go to the theatre, what do we expect? Do we have a responsibility? Witness First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee thinks so.
by Carissa Lee
On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls to be banned.
by Ben Keene
This month, Robert Reid talks to actor, theatre maker and performer Yoni Prior about her work with Barrie Kosky’s first company, Gilgul.
by Ben Keene
Video: Robert Reid talks to Claudia Funder from the Australian Performing Arts Collection about their astounding collection.