Julian Meyrick, Author at The Theatre Times

“Heroes of the Fourth Turning”: How Theatre Can Serve as a Mode of Inquiry into Right Wing Ideas

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 3rd May 2022 | Australia, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics

Why did 46.8% of Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election? Why did approximately 2,000...

Ambiguity and Amorality: Is Douglas Stewart’s “Ned Kelly” One of Australia’s Great Forgotten Plays?

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 8th Apr 2022 | Australia, Directing, Essay, Theatre and Politics

In 1943, Dolia Ribush, a Russian-speaking Latvian theatre director of medium height and...

As We Turn to Creativity in Isolation, The Coronavirus is a Calamity on Top of an Arts Crisis”

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 16th Apr 2020 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Art

Some years ago, I traveled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train...

“La Reprise”: Startling Theatre And A Call To The Dead To Speak

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 29th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Switzerland

Review: La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre, Adelaide Festival By chance, I happened to overhear a...

“The Cursed Child” Is The Latest In A Line Of Big Shows That Date Back To The Romans

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 10th Mar 2019 | Australia, Essay, Melbourne

“This,” the Chicago Tribune critic reminds us on the billboard of seemingly every tram stop in...

“Dreams In An Empty City”: A Strikingly Prescient Morality Tale About Banking

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 18th Jul 2018 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting

In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. There is no single...

When The Cultural Cringe Abated: Australian Drama In The 1970s

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 19th Jun 2018 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting

In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. If Australian...

“Memorial” Is A Shattering Excavation Of The Scars Of War Through Poetry, Dance, And Mind Blowing Score

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 19th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Australia, Festivals, Review

Arthur Danto, in his Analytic Philosophy of History, calls the common noun “scar” a...

The Great War and Kings of War Journey from the Kill Zone to the Map Room

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 17th Mar 2018 | Australia, Review

Two plays about war, one utilizing children’s toys, the other blank verse. In many ways,...

The Great Australian Plays: “The Cake Man” And The Indigenous Mission Experience

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 13th Feb 2018 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting

In the introduction to her seminal book Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, Mary...

The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd, And The Better Angels Of Our Country’s Nature

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 15th Oct 2017 | Australia, Playwriting

Two of Australian theatre’s most celebrated artists are scientists. Their CVs may not be...

Melbourne’s La Mama Demonstrates The Value of Independent Theatre

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 12th Jul 2017 | Australia, Management, Melbourne

This year Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates its 50th year of operation. In an interview for...

The Great Australian Plays: Sex, Poetry and “The Chapel Perilous”

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 7th May 2017 | Australia, Playwriting

When she died in 2002, The Age hailed Dorothy Hewett as “the grande dame of Australian literature”...

The Great Australian Plays: “The Front Room Boys” and New Wave Theatre

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 26th Mar 2017 | Australia, Playwriting

“Fucken boong”. With these words Australian theatre entered the swinging sixties – eight years...

“The Secret River”: Colonial Oppression on Australian Stages

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 14th Mar 2017 | Australia, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics

One way of looking at a story is as a mental suitcase that brings together a bunch of actions that...

What It’s Like To Be A Theatre Director in Australia

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 7th Mar 2017 | Australia, Directing

For a theatre director, plays are like bulls: it doesn’t matter how fancy your cape work is, any...

“Trainspotting” On Stage Brings a Disturbing Reality Vividly to Life

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 28th Feb 2017 | United Kingdom

Irvine Welsh’s in-yer-face, anti-fairy tale of no-hope NEDs (non-educated delinquents), and the...

The Great Australian Plays: “A Cheery Soul” Is Really A Theatrical Monster

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 23rd Feb 2017 | Australia

In 2004, Melbourne Theatre Company, where I worked at the time, asked me to write a short history...

OzAsia Festival Brings A Global Perspective To Australia With Theatre And Dance

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 5th Feb 2017 | Asia, Australia, Festivals, Producing, Theatre and Dance

Sometimes the weather simply won’t cooperate. Between a state-wide blackout, monsoonal rain, and...

The Great Australian Plays: “The Torrents,” “The Doll” and The Critical Mass of Australian Drama

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 9th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay

In 1955, two plays, The Torrents by Oriel Gray and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler,...

Julian Meyrick

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“Heroes of the Fourth Turning”: How Theatre Can Serve as a Mode of Inquiry into Right Wing Ideas

Ambiguity and Amorality: Is Douglas Stewart’s “Ned Kelly” One of Australia’s Great Forgotten Plays?

As We Turn to Creativity in Isolation, The Coronavirus is a Calamity on Top of an Arts Crisis”

“La Reprise”: Startling Theatre And A Call To The Dead To Speak

“The Cursed Child” Is The Latest In A Line Of Big Shows That Date Back To The Romans

“Dreams In An Empty City”: A Strikingly Prescient Morality Tale About Banking

When The Cultural Cringe Abated: Australian Drama In The 1970s

“Memorial” Is A Shattering Excavation Of The Scars Of War Through Poetry, Dance, And Mind Blowing Score

The Great War and Kings of War Journey from the Kill Zone to the Map Room

The Great Australian Plays: “The Cake Man” And The Indigenous Mission Experience

The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd, And The Better Angels Of Our Country’s Nature

Melbourne’s La Mama Demonstrates The Value of Independent Theatre

The Great Australian Plays: Sex, Poetry and “The Chapel Perilous”

The Great Australian Plays: “The Front Room Boys” and New Wave Theatre

“The Secret River”: Colonial Oppression on Australian Stages

What It’s Like To Be A Theatre Director in Australia

“Trainspotting” On Stage Brings a Disturbing Reality Vividly to Life

The Great Australian Plays: “A Cheery Soul” Is Really A Theatrical Monster

OzAsia Festival Brings A Global Perspective To Australia With Theatre And Dance

The Great Australian Plays: “The Torrents,” “The Doll” and The Critical Mass of Australian Drama

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