In this month’s Video History, join Witness historian Robert Reid on a walking tour of Melbourne’s lost theatres
Witness Histories
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The final episode of Robert Reid’s first series of Witness Histories looks at the past forty years, bringing us up to the present day
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In this episode of Witness Histories, Robert Reid covers the emergence of the New Wave of theatre makers in the 1960s and 70s, including La Mama, The Australian Performing Group and the NIDA production of The Legend of King O’Malley.
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The beginning of theatre as we know it now. In Video Histories: Episode 5.1: Witness historian Robert Reid looks at the beginning of the era of subsidised theatre.
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Before the era of government subsidies, Australian colonial theatre was dominated by a production behemoth, JC Williamson Theatres, or “The Firm”. Robert Reid lays it all down.
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Witness Histories, Episode 3 Part 1: Robert Reid tracks Australian theatre through the 19th century, through the often disreputable careers of the early actor-managers.
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Witness Histories, Episode 3 Part 2: Robert Reid tracks Australian theatre through the 19th century, through the often disreputable careers of the early actor-managers.
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There were plays! There were riots! There were offended clerics and government shutdowns! Robert Reid traces the fascinating, troubled and largely forgotten history of convict theatre after the First Fleet arrived in 1788, and ponders why so much of it seems so familiar.
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Witness Histories Part 1: Choreographer and creative director of the Yirramboi First Nations Festival Jacob Boehme talks to Robert Reid about 80,000 years of Indigenous performance history in Australia.
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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?