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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‘A love of life might not have been better depicted on stage than a lone person joyfully rollerskating naked’: Robert Reid on Andi Snelling’s Happy Go Wrong
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Australian Dance Theatre’s North/South is a powerful evocation of climate dystopia and human resilience, says Ben Brooker
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A razor-sharp parody of Australian hypocrisy, with dangerously empty moments: Robert Reid on the Batmania bus tour at Melbourne Fringe
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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