Hi Majid. What a great idea! It would be great. If we ever get back to the stage. 🙂 x

Thanks Stephen

Thanks, Ian. Yes, the Australia Council continues to be in an impossible position, continually on the back foot trying to cope with the continual crisis. Interesting times! I hope we can rescue something good from this, but it is going to be so difficult. On the other hand, there is now very little to lose.

Thanks Matthew. I think that’s what we’ve been doing. I’m hope we can begin to do something else! x

Thanks so much, David! I hope you’re keeping well in these bleak times.

Thanks Matthew

Thanks Chris. I’m glad you enjoyed it! Yes, it does stay with you. I haven’t seen anything quite like it before.

Hi Ceridwen, many thanks for your comment. “Gender equity” is consciously used here, and therefore not at all misleading: at Witness we wish to include all women (including trans women, who are particularly marginalised) in the language we use. As modern science confirms, sex is by no means as binary as patriarchal tradition wishes us to believe,…[Read more]

Thanks Peter. Nudging a door open here and there is pretty much the best that anyone can do!

Maybe? I mean, one brings one’s subjectivity to all art (or what’s the point?) but clearly others felt the same, so it wasn’t only me. (Not that that invalidates your own response at all.) Knowing the story made no difference for me, and the more I researched it the more I felt it was a missed opportunity, Also the text was for me utterly banal…[Read more]

Hi Tom! Interestingly there were moments – particularly the part that for me really worked, which focused on the band- that really strongly reminded me of Jacobs’ work. But maybe that was why I found it so lacking? I missed the mix of cool intellectuality and raw passion that happens in Fraught Outfit’s (and others) productions. They always fee…[Read more]

Hi Mick, I take your point, and I too thought of the resources that went into that show and how they might have been otherwise used; but I can think of a lot of commissioned festival shows that have not been failures. Off the top of my head, Stephanie Lake’s Colossus, which was co-commissioned by the Fringe and programmed by MIAF (you can read m…[Read more]

Thanks Jo. It was a puzzler, for sure! Though I know of others who liked it.