Announcing the 2019 First Nations Emerging Critic: choreographer, dancer and artistic powerhouse Jacob Boehme
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‘The whole production looks like an attack on heteronormative patriarchy, dressed up as a surreal and charming fairytale’: Alison Croggon on Barrie Kosky and 1927’s The Magic Flute
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A stale retelling: Alison Croggon on Lost & Found’s Perth Festival opera, Ned Kelly
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‘Kwongkan squanders its moments of power by reaching for a simplistic idea of protest’: Alison Croggon on a Perth Festival work that attempts to take on the enormity of climate change
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‘It’s only February, and I think I’ve already seen the show of the year’: Carissa Lee on the scorching music theatre work Barbara and the Camp Dogs
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‘There’s a very British heartlessness lurking in the centre of this play that the over-produced staging inadvertently exposes’: Alison Croggon on The Lady in the Van at the Melbourne Theatre Company
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‘I find myself not only questioning the value of these tears, but also their cost. Who pays for these tears?’: Robert Reid on the Little Ones Theatre’s Merciless Gods
‘I find myself not only questioning the value of these tears, but also their cost. Who pays for these tears?’: Robert Reid on the Little Ones Theatre’s Merciless Gods
by Robert Reid
The artifical dilemma of binaries: Robert Reid on Fifteen Minutes from Anywhere’s return season of Cock
by Robert Reid
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What are Relaxed Performances? Who are they for? And why do they matter? Tom Middleditch, artistic director of A-tistic, gives us the lowdown
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As Next Wave opens its callout for artist submissions to the 2020 festival, Alison Croggon speaks to festival director Roslyn Helper about power, art and hope
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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
by Carissa Lee
The first Spotlight Podcast, a new series of investigative podcasts produced by Witness sound man Ben Keene, The Bridge explores the remount late last year of The Bridge, Vicki Reynolds’ verbatim play about the West Gate Bridge disaster, and how communities deal with trauma, memory and healing
by Ben Keene
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
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