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 […]

This month we have a treat: Robert Reid talks to actor, theatre maker and performer Yoni Prior about her work with Barrie Kosky’s first company, Gilgul. Formed in 1990, Gilgul was Australia’s first p […]

Arts funding. It’s not a sexy subject, but anyone interested in Australian culture needs to know how it works. Since 2013, the absolute number of individual artists and organisations funded by the Australia Co […]

For our third Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Jane Woollard, playwright, director and historian.  Woollard has been uncovering the hidden history of women such as Eliza Winstanley Anne Clarke in 19th […]

The Witness Podcast, Episode 3. Recently British critic Quentin Letts caused a storm by suggesting the RSC cast an actor only because he was black. Is this in fact racist criticism? (Spoiler: Yes, it is!) Is […]

The Witness Interview: Richard Frankland In this must-listen episode of The Witness Interview, Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland speaks candidly to […]

In our second Witness podcast, Team Witness gets down to some nitty gritty. Last month, Soda Jerk’s film Terra Nullius was disowned for being “unAustralian” by its philanthropic commissioning body, the Ian […]

Witness sound editor Ben Keene gives us a peek inside his editing studio, and his experience with the “musical illusion”: the song of conversation

The first editing job I ever did involving the spoken word was […]

For those who missed our launch and the announcement of the inaugural First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee last month, here’s a taste of what happened on that beautiful autumn afternoon, put together by […]

In the first episode of The Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Patricia Cornelius, playwright, performer and thorn in the side of the patriarchy, remembering the brilliant director Eva Czajor, and di […]

For our first Witness podcast, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Robert Reid discuss the crucial importance of Indigenous critical voices, and ponder how to talk about contemporary dance in the lead-up to our […]