Witness Performance | Witness Performance | Activity https://witnessperformance.com/members/witness/activity/ Activity feed for Witness Performance. Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:24:08 +1100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-AU 30 hourly 2 2fb1b7a94fe9687879940c34d58b3825 Witness Performance posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/all-the-webs-a-stage/#comment-9382 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 06:26:56 +1000 Hey Matt, yeah you’re absolutely right about it being a fine line between involving amateurs and exploiting unpaid performers. I think the best way to manage that is to see it as a fluid thing, that as volunteers become increasingly involved that they should be able to move into paid work. The ARG and LARP communities have had a habit of playing…[Read more]

In reply to - Robert Reid wrote a new post Maybe traditional performing arts could learn a lot from YouTube vloggers and online games. For the launch of BLEED 2020, Robert Reid investigates live digital performance Now, […] ]]> 0fcf9aa8a75c3172b3c236740360ba04 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6065 Thu, 12 Sep 2019 01:53:24 +1000 Setting the bar high: youth correspondent Gully Thompson on the Melbourne season of Terrapin’s A Not So Traditional Story, opening soon at the Brisbane Festival
Educational theatre has a bit of a bad reputation. […]

]]> ecacead0528c1a13f5df894366190f22 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6026 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:20:20 +1000 ‘The level of the audience’s participation in the show, whether it was screams, cheers, boos or bear growls, was something to behold’: youth critic Gully Thompson on Black Honey’s One the Bear
I love to see s […]

]]> 93728c7685dc439ac448fce34bd0df73 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6016 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:20:52 +1000 Autistic critic Jess Flint reviews A_tistic Theatre’s Helping Hands, a show that explores how ‘help’ can sometimes be the opposite
Helping Hands, the new performance by A_tistic Theatre, seeks to define exactly […]

]]> 0cd4f7b40fe046c42d785aa6c0498cb2 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5975 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:43:55 +1000 How do we make systemic change in an often resistant industry? Jessica Walton reflects on an empowering symposium on disability and the arts
What defines an emerging artist? At what point do we stop emerging, and […]

]]> f5592dfc260e45db26b2d3971d5ad27e Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5973 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:39:38 +1000 From its initial season as a fringe play, Fleabag has grown to a global phenomenon. Kirsten Krauth talks to Sian Clifford about playing sisters with Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The shock of the first season of Fleabag […]

]]> 14391f1f4320e3101664f3df1edc58dd Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5853 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:31:24 +1000 When Tom Middleditch, a vocal advocate for neurodiverse representation on stage, saw Robot Song, his first response was rage. But then he changed his mind. This is what happened…
One thing I value, both as a […]

]]> 7a923d981ad09424e3b6283d4ab942b9 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5722 Tue, 14 May 2019 23:50:39 +1000 Canadian First Nations choreographer Lara Kramer draws a surreal picture of colonised life in Windigo, says Philipa Rothfield
Windigo by Lara Kramer, a Canadian choreographer of Cree, Ojibwe and Mennonite […]

]]> c9072db8ecb205ca38146262be03fa1b Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5687 Wed, 08 May 2019 00:36:26 +1000 Yumi Umiumare’s Butoh work Forbidden Laughter shows that laughter isn’t always funny, says Philipa Rothfield
Butoh Out’s 2019 performance season, Forbidden Laughter, draws together 20-odd performers. They’re a h […]

]]> a47e73f06ac157476f7759157b6eaf2d Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5623 Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:41:58 +1000 Teen critic Gully Thompson is disappointed by the stage adaptation of David Walliams’ Billionaire Boy
As a child, (which wasn’t that long ago) I was one of the many fans of David Walliams’s books. The books are […]

]]> 81b5d645fb2be94769cd6ffa4e456929 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5595 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:06:35 +1000 ‘Disabled artists should be a priority for this industry. Many artists are already there creating work. They don’t need mentorships! They need money.’ Jessica Walton on the power of disability-led art
If you w […]

]]> 3973740d30a86046879fd111b5a685e3 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5518 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:51:57 +1100 Monumental and mythic: Philipa Rothfield on Jill Orr’s Dark Night
Dark Night, like much of Jill Orr’s work, has an epic, visual sensibility. A woman stands astride a wooden ship, perched on a hill of wooden c […]

]]> 7eeac6fc8d118e0b4b2ad27b7bd45f8e Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5474 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:20:57 +1100 Creating worlds: Philipa Rothfield on Lilian Steiner’s Memoir for Rivers and the Dictator and Rachel Arianne Ogle’s i have loved the Stars too Fondly to be Fearful of the Night
At first glance, these two works […]

]]> 248d7dc4f2b59037f7f9dfe1292656d8 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5299 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:35:06 +1100 Come and see some dance with Witness!
Dance Massive hits Melbourne stages this week, and as part of our special Dance Massive Critical Focus we’re offering not one, not two, but three Witness Salons for our […]

]]> 84f4ecd03e5ff7ad1553fcf63f1b2f27 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5204 Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:28:18 +1100 Kirsten Krauth speaks to directors Glyn Roberts, Lindy Hume and Glenn Wright about their upcoming regional arts festivals
When you think of arts festivals, the first that spring to mind are the major city […]

]]> 1db6883761433bd5ab98779f236d13dc Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5079 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:01:57 +1100 What are Relaxed Performances? Who are they for? And why do they matter? Tom Middleditch from A_tistic Theatre gives us the lowdown
First, some history, without any facts
It’s hard to imagine anything i […]

]]> f8aa57ec4194b2d9d85eefc093fb8d7b Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5087 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:40:48 +1100 Announcing the 2019 First Nations Emerging Critic: choreographer, dancer and artistic powerhouse Jacob Boehme
We’re thrilled to announce that Jacob Boehme will be the second Witness First Nations Emerging Critic, […]

]]> c4125b8a188896a6867f778eefc45da3 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4968 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 02:22:01 +1100 We made it this far. AWESOME! But Witness needs your help or we’ll have to close in June…
Happy New Year to all our readers! Over the summer theatre break we’ve been busy under the hood, tinkering with the […]

]]> 36cbcbb9e644e18dad06b5a58b034018 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4676 Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:54:46 +1100 Teen critic Gully Thompson takes a look at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Stories in the Wall, an ongoing project that harnesses the creative imagination of primary school children
I have more than once found myself […]

]]> da0efc661a901f8ce462dd2c438d7fce Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4668 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:23:51 +1100 Applications are now open for the 2019 Witness First Nations Emerging Critic
Witness, founded earlier this year by Alison Croggon and Robert Reid, is a curated website that fosters critical discussion of the […]

]]> 9fa4c53d0fdbbdd06c7b3d7f70b68c78 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4427 Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:22:48 +1100 Vox Motus’ Flight is a powerful artwork about child asylum seekers that drives home global realities, says young critic Gully Thompson
Dioramas, still figures displayed motionlessly in a scene, might seem to be […]

]]> 840df181c6a52f289ca39e8a7fbb6c70 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4418 Sun, 14 Oct 2018 21:12:46 +1100 Twin Peaks, Lady Gaga, the Wizard of Oz and Santa Claus: UK critic Megan Vaughan reviews Adena Jacobs and Marg Horwell’s trashy interpretation of Salome at the English National Opera in London
It is an o […]

]]> c3c3ba0a4d7872366d22c23b38527a31 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4284 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:11:11 +1000 This month, we’re heading West
November’s Live Night, courtesy of our Stage Partner The Substation, is a chance to delve into the culture of western Melbourne, with a remount by Donna Jackson of Vicky Reynolds’ […]

]]> 2721af4d55ce9a1824ab7ee4047ccd94 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4132 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 04:22:52 +1000 The rights of women to bodily autonomy are non-negotiable. So are the rights of people with disabilities. Danica Kohn on Melbourne Fringe show 19 Weeks
Content warning: This may be difficult for people with Down […]

]]> bd882bce434ccb34f1eec16f12888fcb Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4139 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 02:32:01 +1000 ‘As good a production of this play as you could want to see’: Ben Brooker on the revival of Stephen Sewell’s Welcome the Bright World at the STCSA
As a rule, left-wing Australian playwrights don’t take up ideas b […]

]]> 71344057665141df3837a8903d6896ba Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4073 Sat, 22 Sep 2018 23:39:41 +1000 ‘One of the biggest problems we have is that artistic decision-making isn’t in the hands of children’

Art for young people is often marginalised, dismissed or even demonised in the wider culture. In this […]

]]> 88171888adf06815bb07615ac76d5536 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3978 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 01:30:17 +1000 “A tremendous achievement”: Keith Gow reviews The Harp in the South, Kate Mulvany’s epic adaptation of Ruth Park’s beloved trilogy of novels
ENY: It’s part of being Irish, Maggie. Lost love is a bleak real […]

]]> f0f43d28aa5074f4267ee84649e53f72 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3903 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:20:35 +1000 Why do we pander to mediocrity and bad behaviour from male comics? Aboriginal comedy writer Angelina Hurley reflects on her disappointments
In 2018, the dominance of male mediocrity in stand-up comedy makes me […]

]]> d706395dd8c064c0fa4275a83f3e5eda Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3965 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:55:36 +1000 Kate Champion’s revival of That Eye, The Sky reveals a promising physical approach to theatrical writing, says Jane Howard. But she needs a stronger text
We don’t see much of the Flack family’s lives before cat […]

]]> bfde88d718be0edb49f58c7d7edbd496 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3911 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 22:07:25 +1000 “The distortions of Forsythe’s choreography express something of contemporary fracture, the contemporary trauma of meaning’
We’re thrilled to bring you a very special Live Night, in tandem with our Stage Partner, […]

]]> e4edfeed761755ba7bcd2975921eadfd Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3830 Mon, 13 Aug 2018 02:24:04 +1000 “The wedding dress was a character in its own right”
This month Sayraphim Lothian brought along her iPhone and asked some our of Witness Live Nighters to record their thoughts on Melancholia for posterity. With […]

]]> b490ff34f1424bf41668a3ee42506551 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3735 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:30:00 +1000 “Sometimes there are things you can’t forget about, even when you try.”
September’s Live Night comes courtesy of our Stage Partners La Mama Theatre and Melbourne Fringe: Emily Sheehan’s acclaimed new play Hell’s […]

]]> a2b2ac2794e23171b0b7aba644f1950c Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3661 Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:11:21 +1000 Bookings are now open for the August Live Night, Samara Hersch’s Dybbuks. This Chamber Made production looks fascinating: here Hersch and her collaborators explore the many ways that the dead inhabit female […]

]]> 0d512a6b05fc00b7addcf9832185b03b Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3577 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:12:46 +1000 “What will we do while we are still free to do it?” Cassie Tongue on Daniel Schlusser’s remarkable adaptation of Christa Wolf’s novel They Divided the Sky
When Christa Wolf wrote her novel Der geteilte Himmel […]

]]> 324b296722e7e9dbb4c91937107ee0c5 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3571 Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:56:45 +1000 “Does the picture in your head ever go away?” Monique Grbec reviews Jada Albert’s Brothers Wreck, a devastating play about Indigenous suicide
Translucent concrete-blue plastic tarpaulins are stretched across the […]

]]> 21bfc221080acc269dd0fa1aec72a88e Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3391 Thu, 31 May 2018 20:19:19 +1000 We don’t want to be constantly shaking our metaphorical cans in your face, so after March we stepped back from our first month’s membership drive and concentrated on getting things done. But it’s time for another […]

]]> f56bbdc74d3e0930c7c324de341c21a3 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3432 Thu, 31 May 2018 19:19:59 +1000 ‘You can write what you know without writing the literal occurrences of your own personal life.’ Playwright Jean Tong is over her work being read as autobiographical.

The irony of beginning an essay that […]

]]> 138a233db5bfa8c523f6e9da7c19458b Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3420 Thu, 31 May 2018 19:00:03 +1000 When representation isn’t enough: Tom Middleditch looks at the knotty question of diversity in creative teams
When the first edition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published in 2003, the […]

]]> e0154029ed253a365973de4755d917ac Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3466 Thu, 31 May 2018 15:33:16 +1000 Phew, 2018 is whizzing by at light speed. It’s already time to talk about our July Live Night. With the generous support of our Stage Partner Malthouse Theatre, we’re seeing Melancholia at 6.30pm on July […]

]]> 19f8f8babb190ffc5d94c17e6d4e1fac Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3175 Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:32:04 +1000 Our June Live Night is from our Stage Partner Red Stitch Actors Theatre – the Melbourne premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’s Fury, directed by Brett Cousins and Ella Caldwell.

Well, it’s actually more of a Live A […]

]]> 8852d8486f6525d0f992f4c6eead13ad Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3108 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:19:42 +1000 Cassie Tongue on Adena Jacobs’ The Howling Girls at the Sydney Chamber Opera

It takes a lot to speak. The act requires the use of about half of your brain. It calls on a complex series of muscles and memory to […]

]]> b7e655c43efacfc06d5fac47cc6ae15a Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3058 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 22:57:17 +1000 “Girls, I think your father’s dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck.”

Here at Witness HQ we’re very excited about our May Live Night. With the help of our […]

]]> e222843e2090004316db5c809ed6148f Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2917 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:17:44 +1100 Jane Howard on Akram Khan’s new work Xenos, which played at the Adelaide Festival at the beginning of a world tour
Akram Khan – in reportedly his last full-length production as a performer – is an ast […]

]]> 502c90e7f63a77d23a2a6d964820b3ce Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2602 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:00:47 +1100 Fanfare! As we threatened, we have put together an exciting program of Melbourne Live Nights with our Stage Partners, in which you come to the theatre with us and tell us what you thought. This is Book Club for […]

]]> 6dd602ad48b9ad22c6ace19cf87f0a49 Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2648 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:00:36 +1100 Our inaugural First Nations Emerging Critic is the multi-talented and super-deadly Carissa Lee: poet, actor,  critic and Instagram queen.

Carissa Lee is a Wemba Wemba actor and writer based in Melbourne. A […]

]]> 1031d19ec02e0b1b3d016beb2b9d667d Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2636 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:00:13 +1100 For our April Live Night, we’re thrilled to invite you to come with Witness to see Jodee Mundy’s Personal on April 26 at Arts House.

Personal, a blend of performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation t […]

]]> 536c594fbdba4d512094b56661398efd Witness Performance wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2520 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:42:11 +1100 We’re almost there. And we think we deserve a celebration. 

On March 3 when our first issue goes live, we’ll be gathering in the courtyard at La Mama Theatre to launch ourselves onto the information […]

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