Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg is faux theatre for a poverty-stricken time, 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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Alison Croggon on the anguished eroticism of Daddy, Joel Bray’s latest powerful work on the …
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‘The wit of the performances, both physical and verbal, is riveting’: Alison Croggon on The …
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‘A galvanising moment’: a conference last month on contemporary opera saw the frustrations of women …
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The exhilarating Victorian College of the Arts production of Fucking A was a rare chance …
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Exploring the similarities and differences between percussion and dance: Alison Croggon on Recital
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‘A profoundly elegant collaboration’: Alison Croggon on Kristina Chan’s meditation on climate change, A Faint …
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‘We all vanish, but the traces of our passing – ephemeral, glittering – remain in …
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‘This most recent work from Marrugeku cements its place as one of Australia’s most exciting …
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Alison Croggon on watching two extraordinary bodies in Narelle Benjamin and Paul White’s Cella