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Ben Keene wrote a new post 3 years, 5 months ago
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 […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 3 years, 5 months ago
Childrens performance critic Gully Thompson says that Parrwang Lifts the Sky is a thrilling example of performance for young people
Children’s theatre is often at its best when it takes risks. As a child, I r […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 3 years, 6 months ago
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 […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 3 years, 8 months ago
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 […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Witness Podcast: Does art matter? Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meets online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: Spotlight on BLEED 2020 Ben Keene investigates how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Saigon is remarkably beautiful theatre that reminds us what a main stage play can be, says Alison Croggon
Update: Sadly, the final two performances are cancelled at the touring c […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
‘MÁM is a
celebration of ordinary moments, which are as mysterious and ambiguous as the
supernatural spirits that haunt and weave through them’: Alison Croggon on Teaċ
Damsa’s exhilarating dance theatreAs […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
‘Difficult truths wrought into
profound, unsettling harmonies’: Alison Croggon explores the sorrow and light
in Kamila Andini’s remarkable dance theatre work The Seen and Unseen at AsiaTOPAAsiaTOPA 2020 – or, […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
‘It’s interesting how lines that once simply slipped by register with spikes now’: Alison Croggon on the return of Ridiculusmus’ two-person The Importance of Being Earnest
I’m getting older, which can be bo […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s Photograph 51 dramatises the inexorable diminishment of a brilliant woman, says Alison Croggon
Sexism, like every -ism and –phobia, is, in the end, simply exhausting. These str […] -
Alison Croggon wrote a new post 5 years, 2 months ago
‘It feels as urgent as his work ever has, but the complexities have deepened profoundly. Unmissable.” Alison Croggon on Hofesh Schechter’s Grand Finale at the Melbourne Festival
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 5 years, 4 months ago
‘In this assertion of humanity lingers the spark that becomes revolution’: Robert Reid on Wild Cherries at La Mama
Daniel Keene has been one of Australia’s best known playwrights, both locally and i […] -
Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 4 months ago
‘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 […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago
Mama Alto’s Torch Songs at the Melbourne Recital Centre shows why she’s one of Australia’s most essential voices, says Ben Keene
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago
‘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 […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
‘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.’ […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
‘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 […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
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 […]
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Ben Keene wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
‘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 […]
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Great review—I saw the show on the strength of this, so thank you. I also was at a bit of a loss afterwards as to how to describe it. The child performers did an amazing job—together with the thoughtful integration of performance and design, it managed to be both tender and mythic. The more I think about it, the more I realise it’s going to stay with me.
Thanks Chris. I’m glad you enjoyed it! Yes, it does stay with you. I haven’t seen anything quite like it before.