Team Witness gets together for a final podcast yarn about criticism, funding, Australian theatre history, Ibsen, Blak voices, inclusion and exclusion, accessibility, digital theatre, revolution, why we closed and what we loved about making Witness.
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Ben Keene talks to Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner from Asia TOPA about the exciting digital innovations forced on the festival by last year’s pandemic crisis.
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Ben Keene talks to theatre maker Daniel Schlusser – a performer, director, dramaturg and thinker who over the past decade has made some of Australia’s most groundbreaking theatre
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Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meet online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now
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Podcast: Ben Keene examines how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this year
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Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. ‘You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy’
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The Witness Interview: In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing theatre makers
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The Witness Interview: ‘There’s something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I’ve always felt compelled to wrestle with that.’ Thomas M Wright talks to Alison Croggon
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Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and advocate, and his passionate and abiding connection to Australian arts.
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‘When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’ In Part 1 of this super fabulous and candid Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to performance artist Moira Finucane on the development of her unique queer performance art