Videos

Robert Reid continues his exploration of the hidden corners of Australian playwriting with a story of colonial Tasmania, Catherine Shepherd’s 1938 play Daybreak

Robert Reid continues his isolation reviews of Australian plays with Angela Fewster’s Black Crysanthemums

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

In this month’s Video History, join Witness historian Robert Reid on a walking tour of Melbourne’s lost theatres

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

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.

Video: Art for young people is often marginalised and dismissed in the wider culture. In this lively and passionate Witness discussion at Arts House, part of the Melbourne Fringe XS program, our panellists discussed everything about art for young people – what it is, how it is discussed and evaluated, and why it matters.

“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.

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.

Video: Robert Reid talks to Claudia Funder from the Australian Performing Arts Collection about their astounding collection.