The devastating funding cuts of the mid-90s are being repeated, destroying the painstaking repairs of the past two decades. Robert Reid on this particular circle of arts hell
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Antony Hamilton’s Token Armies is ambitious and challenging, but it ultimately leaves Georgia Mill wanting more
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‘If you’ve ever overcome the acid of social stigma, the euphoria of these artists speaks for you’: Monique Grbec on Gender Euphoria at the Melbourne Festival
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“It makes sense to take a theatrically experimental approach to this work; what baffled me was the falsity that hollows out its artifice.’ Alison Croggon on The Nico Project
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Back to Back Theatre’s The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is thick with what is left unsaid, says Jane Howard
Antony Hamilton’s Token Armies is ambitious and challenging, but it ultimately leaves Georgia Mill wanting more
by Georgia Mill
‘If you’ve ever overcome the acid of social stigma, the euphoria of these artists speaks for you’: Monique Grbec on Gender Euphoria at the Melbourne Festival
Ellen Grimshaw’s polyvocal Just Us Girls – What’s a Girl? reminds Robert Reid of Samuel Beckett. And Blondie
by Robert Reid
‘Everything about The Bloom Shed reminds me of the “good” old days of the Indy Theatre Boom of the 2000s’: Robert Reid on The Market is a Wind-up Toy
by Robert Reid
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The devastating funding cuts of the mid-90s are being repeated, destroying the painstaking repairs of the past two decades. Robert Reid on this particular circle of arts hell
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How do we make systemic change in an often resistant industry? Jessica Walton reflects on an empowering symposium on disability and the arts
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From its initial season as a fringe play, Fleabag has grown to a global phenomenon. Kirsten Krauth talks to Sian Clifford about playing sisters with Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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When Tom Middleditch, a vocal advocate for neurodiverse representation on stage, saw Robot Song, his first response was rage. But then he changed his mind. This is what happened…
Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. ‘You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy’
by Ben Keene
The Witness Interview: In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing theatre makers
by Ben Keene
In this month’s Video History, join Witness historian Robert Reid on a walking tour of Melbourne’s lost theatres
by Robert Reid