‘A beautiful opening of the self’: Alison Croggon on Public Actions from Luke George and Collaborators
[Spoilers]

What is dance? Is it embodied thinking? Dynamic representation? A temporal narrative? A series […]

‘Unambiguously a triumph’: Alison Croggon on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
[Spoiler free]

I still remember first reading Harry Potter. When The Chamber of Secrets was published, an old friend told me that […]

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 […]

Robert Reid and Sayraphim Lothian attend an intriguing auditory experience for children, I Am Hear, without a child
It’s immediately noticeable is that I don’t have a child with me. This is why Sayra came a […]

‘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 […]