In this month’s podcast, actor, director, teacher and dramaturge Melanie Beddie looks back over a lifetime working in theatre as a independent artist, dramaturge and advocate.
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The Witness Interview: Alison Croggon talks to choreographer Lucy Guerin, artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, about her early career and the profound importance of community to an artform like dance
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In this month’s Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage conversations about the problems we face in our community, such as the revelations around #MeToo?
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On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls to be banned.
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This month, Robert Reid talks to actor, theatre maker and performer Yoni Prior about her work with Barrie Kosky’s first company, Gilgul.
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Since 2013, the absolute number of individual artists and organisations funded by the Australia Council has decreased by 73 per cent. Alison Croggon and Robert Reid take a look at how we got here.
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Robert Reid talks to Jane Woollard, playwright, director and historian, about the lost history of women in 19th century colonial Australian theatre.
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Is “political correctness” a thing? Can we be critically rigorous and also not bigoted? This month Team Witness dives into the minefield of political correctness and freedom of speech in the arts.
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In this must-listen episode of The Witness Interview, Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland speaks candidly to Carissa Lee about how art and activism unite in his acclaimed creative life.
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In times of increasing austerity, arts companies are becoming reluctant to take risks: so how do we address urgent systemic problems, such as racism or sexism? Robert Reid, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon ask all the questions. Answers? Not so much…