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New on Witness
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‘Some days it feels like I’m a starving animal, happy to accept the tiniest crumbs someone is willing to throw my way’: Blind critic Olivia Muscat calls for a total rethink of our ideas about inclusion
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What does it mean when theatre changes the rules? Robert Reid dives into the worlds of immersion, participation, performance and play.
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The final episode of Robert Reid’s first series of Witness Histories looks at the past forty years, bringing us up to the present day
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For our final Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial representation and the early days of blogging.
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Teen critic Gully Thompson takes a look at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Stories in the Wall, an ongoing project that harnesses the creative imagination of primary school children
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‘Some days it feels like I’m a starving animal, happy to accept the tiniest crumbs someone is willing to throw my way’: Blind critic Olivia Muscat calls for a total rethink of our ideas about inclusion
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What does it mean when theatre changes the rules? Robert Reid dives into the worlds of immersion, participation, performance and play.
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First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee discusses why culturally informed reviews are crucial for Indigenous performance
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‘The trial has prompted a deep anger within the theatre community. Its reverberations will echo for a long time’: Alison Croggon looks at the Geoffrey Rush defamation trial and its inevitable connections to #MeToo
For our final Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial representation and the early days of blogging.
by Ben Keene
In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts.
by Ben Keene
The final episode of Robert Reid’s first series of Witness Histories looks at the past forty years, bringing us up to the present day
by Robert Reid
First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee is charmed by Barking Gecko’s A Ghost in my Suitcase
by Carissa Lee
‘Sheer joyousness and delight’: Alison Croggon on the austere brilliance of William Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance
Alison Croggon unloosed her inner child and ventured to German theatre maker Sybille Peters’ live art for children at Melbourne Fringe’s XS