The Picture of Dorian Gray is spectacular, yet somehow never succumbs to the seductions of spectacle, says Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon is co-editor and co-founder of Witness. She is an award-winning novelist, poet, librettist and critic. She has 30 years experience reviewing performance for outlets such as the Australian, ABC Arts Online and The Monthly and generated an international reputation as a performance critic with her influential blog Theatre Notes, which revolutionised performance discourse in Australia. In 2009 she was the first online critic to win the prestigious Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year Award. In 2019 her play My Dearworthy Darling will be performed by The Rabble at Malthouse Theatre.
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In the third Witness essay for BLEED 2020, Alison Croggon explores the ongoing evolution of virtual worlds
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‘It’s almost like theatre’: Alison Croggon reviews Malthouse Theatre’s The Lockdown Monologues and Uninvited Guests’ Love Letters Straight from the Heart
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Alison Croggon thinks it’s time we faced up to the fact that everything is going according to plan
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Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Saigon is remarkably beautiful theatre that reminds us what a main stage play can be, says Alison Croggon
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‘MÁM is a celebration of ordinary moments, which are as mysterious and ambiguous as the supernatural spirits that haunt and weave through them’: Alison Croggon on Teaċ Damsa’s exhilarating dance theatre
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‘Difficult truths wrought into profound, unsettling harmonies’: Alison Croggon explores the sorrow and light in Kamila Andini’s remarkable dance theatre work The Seen and Unseen at AsiaTOPA
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‘It’s interesting how lines that once simply slipped by register with spikes now’: Alison Croggon on the return of Ridiculusmus’ two-person The Importance of Being Earnest
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‘I couldn’t imagine why anyone would take this absurd set-up as anything but the occasion for some kind of vicious Orton-esque farce’: Alison Croggon on the MTC’s Home I’m Darling
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Kate Hunter’s theatre poem Earshot – remounted last week for the Due West Arts Festival – is a darkly pleasurable delight, says Alison Croggon