Witness Histories Episode 2: Convict Theatre
There were plays! There were riots! There were offended clerics and government shutdowns! Robert Reid traces the fascinating, troubled and largely forgotten history of convict theatre after the First Fleet arrived in 1788, and ponders why so much of it seems so familiar.
Episode 1, Part One: 80,000 Years of Indigenous Performance: An Overview
Episode 1, Part Two: The Ancient Avant Garde