Staging Power: David Williamson’s Portrait Of Citizen Murdoch
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) production of David Williamson’s 2013 play Rupert has...
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Theatre and Politics
“Dangerous Acts Starring The Unstable Elements Of Belarus”: Review By Jesse Kirkwood
“Belarus is not sexy. Sexy countries have oil, gas, diamonds, sea, mountains … Belarus has...
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Can Keene/Taylor’s New Play “Dreamers” Keep Us From Despair?
More than ten years after the last production by the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project (KTTP),...
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Big hART’s “Hipbone Sticking Out”: Truthful And Ambitious Theatre
Hipbone Sticking Out, the Big hART production now playing at the Melbourne Festival, begins in...
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Terrorism, Truth, and Trust – How Dramaturgy Informs Real Life
Drama and its core principles are to be found in theatres while the real world goes on outside,...
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“Black Diggers”: Out Of The Trenches At The Brisbane Festival
The performance space in which Wesley Enoch‘s play Black Diggers is being performed at the...
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Back to the U.S.S.R.
On occasion, rather than buried and hidden somewhere, essences lie right there on the surface,...
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“Naked, Obscene Theater, That’s What Our People Fear” – On Russian Theatre and Politics
Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of Moscow’s innovative Gogol Center, and a...
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“Ugly Mugs”: ‘An Unacceptable Breach Of Sex Workers’ Privacy’
Peta Brady’s Ugly Mugs, which I saw in Sydney last week, opens with a gurney being wheeled onto...
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New Fringe Play Offers Insights On Illegal “eBay For Drugs”
Alex Oates’ debut Fringe play traces the journey of 19-year-old Geordie lad Bruce, as he begins...
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Assessing The First Wave Of The AIDS Epidemic, A Generation On
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
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Mayakovsky At Carriageworks: A Telegram From An Alien Future
“I’m a poet. That’s what makes me interesting.” So begins the autobiography of Vladimir...
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“Henry V” Meets The London Blitz And Brings The House Down
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V–which opened in Canberra on...
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“Opus No.7” By Krymov To Be Performed In London
Director and artist Dmitry Krymov’s production of Opus No.7, about the Holocaust and the...
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Treading A Fine Line: The Return Of Politics To Russian Theater
After a long period in which Russian theater productions avoided political themes, the last few...
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Natalya Vorozhbit Writes Verbatim “Maidan” Play
Natalya Vorozhbit is Ukraine’s leading playwright and co-author of Maidan: Voices from the...
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Bard Labour: Doing Time With The Shakespeare Prison Project
Since 2006, I have led the Shakespeare Prison Project, an initiative by the Queensland Shakespeare...
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Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s “Voices Of The Uprising”
Before Maidan events faded from people’s memories, playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit brought the...
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Public Readings of “The Diaries of Maidan” at the Center of Contemporary Art “DAKH”
During the several months of protests in Kyiv Maidan a group of young dramatists who call...
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Connecting Shakespearean “Roman Tragedies”
Over six hours, three Shakespearean tragedies – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony And...
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