On the pain of women: First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee explores how Australian plays portray violence against women.
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“The wedding dress was a character in its own right”. This month Sayraphim Lothian brought along her iPhone and asked some our of Witness Live Nighters to record their thoughts on Melancholiafor posterity.
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Disarming but troubling, Alison Croggon says Belarus Free Theatre’s Generation Jeans plays on a binary that feels outdated.
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First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee on Mojo Juju’s Native Tongue, a family saga of self-discovery
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Charles Manson as the usher of 21st century psychosis: Robert Reid reviews Sneakyville.
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First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee sees Ballet Preljocaj’s gloriously gothic retelling of Snow White.
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Robert Reid sees the Bloomshed’s The Nose, a contemporary take on Nikolai Gogol’s classic story
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On the pain of women: First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee explores how Australian plays portray violence against women.
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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.
The Witness Interview: Alison Croggon talks to choreographer Lucy Guerin, artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, about her early career and the profound importance of community to an artform like dance
by Ben Keene
In this month’s Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage conversations about the problems we face in our community, such as the revelations around #MeToo?
by Ben Keene
“The wedding dress was a character in its own right”. This month Sayraphim Lothian brought along her iPhone and asked some our of Witness Live Nighters to record their thoughts on Melancholiafor posterity.