Friday Essay: 50 Shades Of Shakespeare–How The Bard Sexed Things...

Posted by Stuart Kells | Dec 2, 2018 | Australia, Essay | 0

Would you go and see a bilingual or multilingual show if you only spoke one of the languages...

Through A New Zealander’s Eyes: The Subjunctive World, Notes From Venice Beach

by Hilary Halba | Jun 21, 2018 | Acting, Essay, New Zealand, United States of America | 0
Welcome To The Murder House

by John Smythe | Jun 8, 2018 | New Zealand, Review, United States of America | 0
“Still Life With Chickens:” New Samoan Play Confronts Loneliness Through Comedy

by David O'Donnell | May 20, 2018 | New Zealand, Puppetry, Review, Theatre and Age, Transcultural Collaborations | 0
Dreams And Reality: Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand Closes

by Hilary Halba | May 19, 2018 | Management, New Zealand, News | 0

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Friday Essay: 50 Shades Of Shakespeare–How The Bard Sexed Things Up

by Stuart Kells | Dec 2, 2018 | Australia, Essay | 0

It’s hard to imagine a more literary or successful author than William Shakespeare, formerly...

“Oedipus Schmoedipus” at HKREP Black Box Theatre

by Clement Lee | Nov 9, 2018 | Applied Theatre, Australia, Hong Kong, Review | 0

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKREP) has been presenting the biannual International Black Box...

Traditional Storytelling Meets New Media Activism In Iran

by Laura Bisaillon | Nov 8, 2018 | Australia, Essay, Iran, Transcultural Collaborations | 1

In the summer of 2015, I conducted fieldwork in Tehran and Qom, Iran, with a small team of...

A New Take On “An Enemy Of The People” Fizzes With Contemporary Relevance

by Huw Griffiths | Nov 5, 2018 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney | 0

The fitness of Henrik Ibsen’s plays to address the political questions of our modern lives renews...

In “Trustees,” Belarus Free Theatre Mercilessly Demolishes Australia’s Cultural Debate

by Sandra D'urso | Oct 24, 2018 | Australia, Belarus, Festivals, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations | 0

The Belarus Free Theatre, exiled from their home nation, has returned to Australia to collaborate...

An Adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” Questions Being And Perception

by Sarah Balkin | Oct 20, 2018 | Adaptation, Festivals, Ireland, Melbourne, Review | 0

It resembled a pot, it was almost a pot, but it was not a pot of which one could say, Pot, pot,...

“En Masse” Is An Arresting Fusion Of Circus, Dance, And Classical Music

by Trevor Jones | Oct 15, 2018 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance | 0

According to their artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s En Masse “speaks of fresh starts...

1980s Berlin Comes To Life In “Welcome The Bright World’s” Quest For “Truth”

by Lisa Harper Campbell | Oct 11, 2018 | Australia, Review | 0

Performance group House of Sand, in collaboration with the State Theatre Company of South...

“Lysa And The Freeborn Dames” Pays Tribute To Feminist Protests

by Jacqui Somerville | Aug 15, 2018 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender | 0

The three-women chorus in this energizing, thought-provoking and very well written and acted piece of theatre entreats us to “make the political practical.” Writer Claire Christian and the team have managed to make it intensely...

“The Long Forgotten Dream” Raises Uneasy Questions About Performance And Colonization

by Bryoni Trezise | Aug 8, 2018 | Australia, News, Theatre and Politics | 0

A large, ochred sail swells, rolls and eases in the heavens of the stage. It forms both ceiling...

Technology And Disability Performance: Our Shifting Perspectives.

by Tony McCaffrey | Aug 4, 2018 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Disability | 0

Over the last 20 years, the development of technology in performance has made us question what is...

“Melancholia” Artfully Brings The End Of The World To The Stage

by Sandra D'urso | Aug 3, 2018 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Film | 0

Melancholia is based on Lars von Trier’s 2011 film of the same title but has been adapted for the...

From Child Stars To Lost Theatres: Capturing Australia’s Ephemeral History Of Live Performance

by Gillian Arrighi | Aug 2, 2018 | Australia, Essay | 0

In 1825, Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld watched an Aboriginal Dance of Welcome at Newcastle’s East...

Problems With Gender Equality In Australia’s Dance Industry

by Andrew Westle and Jordan Beth Vincent | Jul 27, 2018 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Gender | 0

The dance sector in Australia has a gender equality problem. While nearly 70% of people working in the industry identify as female, there is a significant gender gap in programming and leadership at the major dance companies. A...