Witness Histories Part 2: Jacob Boehme talks to Robert Reid about 80,000 years of Indigenous performance history in Australia. Modernism? Post-dramatic theatre? What makes Europeans think that these are new ideas?
Robert Reid

Robert Reid
Robert Reid is co-editor and co-founder of Witness and runs our educational resources. He is a playwright, director and academic. His award-winning plays have been produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company and his own independent companies. He is artistic director of the games-based performance company, Pop Up Playground, and his Platform Paper on theatre and digital marketing was published by Currency Press in 2011. He recently completed his PhD in Australian Theatre History.
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We do not tell our story well. Robert Reid reflects on the structural malaise affecting our arts culture.
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Theatre’s never really had the best of reputations: it’s been commonly associated with thieves and prostitutes, disease and rebellion. It’s one of the reasons we like it. Robert Reid asks why we care.