“The wedding dress was a character in its own right”. This month Sayraphim Lothian brought along her iPhone and asked some our of Witness Live Nighters to record their thoughts on Melancholiafor posterity.
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September’s Live Night comes courtesy of our Stage Partners La Mama Theatre and Melbourne Fringe: Emily Sheehan’s acclaimed play Hell’s Canyon at La Mama.
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Bookings are now open for the August Live Night, Dybbuks at Theatre Works, in which Samara Hersch and her collaborators explore the many ways that the dead inhabit female bodies through language, voice, memory and desire.
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Fanfare! As we threatened, we have put together an exciting program of Melbourne Live Nights with our Stage Partners, in which you come to the theatre with us and tell us what you thought. This is Book Club for theatre: an informal chat after a show, facilitated by Witness.
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“What will we do while we are still free to do it?” Cassie Tongue on Daniel Schlusser’s remarkable adaptation of Christa Wolf’s novel They Divided the Sky
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“Does the picture in your head ever go away?” Monique Grbec reviews Jada Albert’s Brothers Wreck, a devastating play about Indigenous suicide.
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Alison Croggon and Robert Reid review Lone, a fascinating one-on-one work from The Rabble and St Martins Youth Theatre
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When representation isn’t enough: Tom Middleditch of A_tistic Theatre looks at the knotty question of diversity in creative teams
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“You can write what you know without writing the literal occurrences of your own personal life.” Playwright Jean Tong is over her work being read as autobiographical.
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We don’t want to be constantly shaking our metaphorical cans in your face so after March, we stepped backand concentrated on getting things done. But now it’s time for our EOFY campaign. Here’s why we need your support.