Alison Croggon reviews Kings of War: “The teeming detail that enlivens Shakespeare’s work – the quality Harold Pinter called “the peopled wound” – is vitamised into a turgid froth.”
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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How do you speak to children about atrocity? Alison Croggon reviews Us/Them at the Adelaide Festival
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Alison Croggon reviews the Keir Choreographic Award: A Caltex Spectrum, Personal Effigies and Post Reality Vision
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This is Lepage at his best, opening epic dimensions within intimate, domestic moments. Alison Croggon on The Far Side of the Moon and Polyglot Theatre’s playful Cerita Anak
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Nassim has the apparently artless simplicity that emerges only from endless artfulness. It begins with nobody knowing anything: even the actor has never seen the script before.
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Alison Croggon ponders the contrasts between Barber Shop Chronicles and Farewell to Paper and decides that an unexamined masculinity is not worth performing
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Perth Festival Diary #1: Alison Croggon looks at Hand Stories and dreams about Siren Song
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Welcome to Witness, a new home for discussion of Australian performance. Have a look around – we’re celebrating our first month with free access to all our editorial.
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Alison Croggon looks at sexual harassment in the performing arts. Australia, we have a problem.
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‘Think of all the great art!’ Let’s not. Alison Croggon ponders art in dark times.