“Heroes of the Fourth Turning”: How Theatre Can Serve as a Mode of Inquiry into Right Wing Ideas
Why did 46.8% of Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election? Why did approximately 2,000...
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Julian Meyrick
Ambiguity and Amorality: Is Douglas Stewart’s “Ned Kelly” One of Australia’s Great Forgotten Plays?
In 1943, Dolia Ribush, a Russian-speaking Latvian theatre director of medium height and...
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As We Turn to Creativity in Isolation, The Coronavirus is a Calamity on Top of an Arts Crisis”
Some years ago, I traveled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train...
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“La Reprise”: Startling Theatre And A Call To The Dead To Speak
Review: La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre, Adelaide Festival By chance, I happened to overhear a...
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“The Cursed Child” Is The Latest In A Line Of Big Shows That Date Back To The Romans
“This,” the Chicago Tribune critic reminds us on the billboard of seemingly every tram stop in...
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“Dreams In An Empty City”: A Strikingly Prescient Morality Tale About Banking
In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. There is no single...
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When The Cultural Cringe Abated: Australian Drama In The 1970s
In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. If Australian...
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“Memorial” Is A Shattering Excavation Of The Scars Of War Through Poetry, Dance, And Mind Blowing Score
Arthur Danto, in his Analytic Philosophy of History, calls the common noun “scar” a...
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The Great War and Kings of War Journey from the Kill Zone to the Map Room
Two plays about war, one utilizing children’s toys, the other blank verse. In many ways,...
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The Great Australian Plays: “The Cake Man” And The Indigenous Mission Experience
In the introduction to her seminal book Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, Mary...
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The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd, And The Better Angels Of Our Country’s Nature
Two of Australian theatre’s most celebrated artists are scientists. Their CVs may not be...
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Melbourne’s La Mama Demonstrates The Value of Independent Theatre
This year Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates its 50th year of operation. In an interview for...
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The Great Australian Plays: Sex, Poetry and “The Chapel Perilous”
When she died in 2002, The Age hailed Dorothy Hewett as “the grande dame of Australian literature”...
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The Great Australian Plays: “The Front Room Boys” and New Wave Theatre
“Fucken boong”. With these words Australian theatre entered the swinging sixties – eight years...
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“The Secret River”: Colonial Oppression on Australian Stages
One way of looking at a story is as a mental suitcase that brings together a bunch of actions that...
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What It’s Like To Be A Theatre Director in Australia
For a theatre director, plays are like bulls: it doesn’t matter how fancy your cape work is, any...
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“Trainspotting” On Stage Brings a Disturbing Reality Vividly to Life
Irvine Welsh’s in-yer-face, anti-fairy tale of no-hope NEDs (non-educated delinquents), and the...
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The Great Australian Plays: “A Cheery Soul” Is Really A Theatrical Monster
In 2004, Melbourne Theatre Company, where I worked at the time, asked me to write a short history...
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OzAsia Festival Brings A Global Perspective To Australia With Theatre And Dance
Sometimes the weather simply won’t cooperate. Between a state-wide blackout, monsoonal rain, and...
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The Great Australian Plays: “The Torrents,” “The Doll” and The Critical Mass of Australian Drama
In 1955, two plays, The Torrents by Oriel Gray and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler,...
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