So long and thanks for all the fish Team Witness – Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Ben Keene – got together for a final podcast yarn […]

The Witness Interview: Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner ‘The experience of 2020 really needs to be celebrated and used as a platform for diving into the future … we mus […]

The Witness Interview: Daniel Schlusser ‘I’m absolutely one for watching a performance that is held by a beautifully written play … but if it’s the onl […]

Witness Podcast: Does art matter? Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meets online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning […]

Podcast: Spotlight on BLEED 2020 Ben Keene investigates how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this […]

‘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’

Candy Bowers is an auteur – in her work, she is a […]

Mama Alto’s Torch Songs at the Melbourne Recital Centre shows why she’s one of Australia’s most essential voices, says Ben Keene
Mama Alto is a unique performer who has accumulated a devoted audience for her […]

‘I don’t have a process… What I do is put things that interest me on stage.’

In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing […]

‘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.’ […]

‘We still tend to overlook and ignore the remarkable work of Australians’

Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and […]

Moira Finucane, ‘the patron saint of magpies’, digs into her creative practice in Part 2 of her interview with Ben Keene

In Part 2 of this funny, fabulous and very candid two-part episode of The Witness […]

‘When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’

In the first part of this funny, fabulous and very candid two-part episode of The Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to the seductive and s […]

Witness Spotlight: The Bridge ‘We’re pulling people out, half dead, half alive…’ Listen to The Bridge here The collapse of the West G […]

‘I’m 37 years old, it’s time I was an evil witch’

For our last Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial […]

In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts.

Further […]

‘I wanted to be in a place where I was treated as an adult human as an artist’

For this month’s Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Australian playwright Amelia Roper about making a career in the Uni […]

‘There are gods walking through performance’

Is there a new energy sweeping through our theatres? It’s been six months since Witness launched, so founders Robert Reid and Alison Croggon take the opportunity […]

“We keep reinventing the wheel”

In this wide-ranging interview with Robert Reid, director, actor, teacher and dramaturge Melanie Beddie looks over a lifetime working in theatre, from her beginning at the […]

“It’s really important to me that my work is generative”

For this month’s interview, Alison Croggon talks to choreographer Lucy Guerin, artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, about her early career as a […]

“Are we going to be having the same conversations again in ten years?”

In this month’s Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage […]