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The final episode of Robert Reid’s first series of Witness Histories brings us up to the present day
This final episode in Robert Reid’s first series of Witness Performance Histories covers the period between the end of the Australian Performing Group in the 1980s to the current theatre landscape in Melbourne at the end of 2018. It sketches the path of Australia Council funding and looks at the presence of companies such as Playbox/Malthouse, Anthill, the independent and professional community theatre.
Video filming and editing: Sayraphim Lothian
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My prediction for the 2020s: the boundaries separating commercial, independent and subsidised theatre will fade away, evaporate and dissolve.
Hey Mathew, thats an interesting idea. What would that mean in practical terms? Do you mean audience’s will start going to comercial, independent and subsidised theatre more? Or that the artists will shift between them more?
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