In the first of a new video series focusing on lesser known works in the Australian canon, Robert Reid reviews Dorothy Blewett’s 1941 play Quiet Night
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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A surprisingly gentle and empathic play that leaves a haunting sadness: Robert Reid on Daniel Keene’s The Curtain
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Robert Reid encounters an exuberant masculinity in Between Tiny Cities
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NONOTAK’S Shiro is a hypnotic encounter with pure aesthetic, says Robert Reid
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The virtual reality experience Eight leaves
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‘I keep wanting to close my eyes and just listen to the music’: Mozart’s Requiem is magnificent. But Romeo Castelluci’s visuals leave Robert Reid cold
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‘This is some of the best writing I’ve seen in a long time’: Robert Icke’s production of The Doctor at the Adelaide Festival leaves Robert Reid transfixed and enthralled
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Sipat Lawin’s latest work at AsiaTOPA is a dazzlingly intelligent pop culture tour that carries a dark subtext, says Robert Reid
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Kim Ho’s The Great Australian Play at Theatre Works is a post dramatic swing at some of Australia’s favourite colonial tropes. Historian and playwright Robert Reid unpicks some of its threads
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Is it enough to re-create a myth? Robert Reid on Marlene Dietrich Perfect Illusion at the Butterfly Club