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We Get There in the End: “Return to the Dirt” Pulls Back the Curtain on Life and Death in a Funeral Home

Posted by Sally Breen | 10th Nov 2021 | Australia, Playwriting, Review

Review: Return to the Dirt, written by Steve Pirie and directed by Lee Lewis, Queensland Theatre I...

Fake News and Propaganda Machines: New Theatre Production Pulls “Animal Farm” into the Now

Posted by Helen Trenos | 20th Oct 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics

In 1937, George Orwell witnessed a boy whipping a horse. This was a catalyst for his novel Animal...

Friday Essay: A World of Pain – Australian Theatre in Crisis

Posted by Gillian Arrighi and Clare Irvine | 18th Oct 2021 | Australia, Covid-19, Theatre and Politics

Australia’s performing arts sector has long been recognized as an ecosystem. It is a community of...

From Pygmies to Puppets: What to Do with Roald Dahl’s Enslaved Oompa-Loompas in Modern Adaptations?

Posted by Kate Cantrell and David Burton | 14th Oct 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics

The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like...

Fringe Theatre Reaches Global Scale with Digital Platform

Posted by REUTERS | 21st Sep 2021 | Australia, Festivals, News

A new age of digital theatre is rising on the horizon, and its dawn is being accelerated by the...

“Don’s Party” at 50: An Achingly Real Portrayal of The Hapless Australian Middle-Class Voter

Posted by Kathryn Kelly | 6th Sep 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics

The play Don’s Party premiered on August 11, 1971 at Carlton’s Pram Factory, home to the radical...

Immersion and Spectator Self-Reckoning: “Boxing Shadows” at the Avignon Theatre Festival

Posted by Lara Cox | 30th Jul 2021 | Australia, Avignon 2021, France, Immersive Theatre, Review

One of the highlights of this year’s Avignon Festival was Boxing Shadows, written especially by...

A Tight, Living Room Drama of a Family in Crisis, “Appropriate” Explores Truth-Telling and Dark Histories

Posted by Heidi Norman and Jennifer Newman | 20th Jul 2021 | Australia, Review, Sydney

Wesley Enoch’s exuberant return to the Sydney Theatre Company to direct African-American...

Shakespeare’s Rulers and Generals Are All Flawed, but the Books on His Leadership Lessons Keep Coming

Posted by Robert White | 7th Jul 2021 | Australia, Books

John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest to use Shakespeare’s works to...

Australia’s Settler and First Nations Histories Meet in The Wild of The Bush in “Dogged”

Posted by Liza-Mare Syron | 13th May 2021 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review

Review: Dogged, directed by Declan Greene. Griffin Theatre Company in association with Force...

The Blurred Line Between Film and Theatre: An Experience of Simon Stone’s “Medea” at the Time of Pandemic

Posted by Mahsa Foroughi | 1st May 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Film

Simon Stone made a contemporary version of Medea by radically adapting Euripides’s Greek tragedy...

Galup Theatrical Walking Tour Recalls the Dancing and Violence of the Colonial Encounter

Posted by Jonathan W. Marshall | 24th Mar 2021 | Australia, Immersive Theatre, Review

Review: Galup, by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, Perth Festival with Same Drum and...

Part Escape Room, Part Choose-Your-Own Adventure — The Whodunit Whistleblower has The Audience at its Heart

Posted by Leah Mercer | 17th Mar 2021 | Australia, Participatory Theatre, Review

Review: Whistleblower, directed by Arielle Gray, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, and Tim Watts. The Last Great...

“Playing Beatie Bow” is Brought to Thundering Life in a Joyous Stage Production

Posted by Vanessa Berry | 14th Mar 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney

Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail, who, from her home in...

Pining for St Kilda Instead of Moscow: “The Cherry Orchard” Grapples With Our Cultural Inheritance

Posted by Leah Mercer | 9th Mar 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad

Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the...

Perth Festival Review: “Whale Fall” is a Powerful Story About a Trans Boy, and the Life of a Whale

Posted by Chandra Salgado Kent | 4th Mar 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Gender

Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop....

In Conversation with Yve Blake, Fangirling on the Fangirls

Posted by Shiya Lu | 3rd Mar 2021 | Australia, Interview, Musical Theatre, Sydney

From Beatlemania in the sixties to 2010 boy band sensation One Direction, to today’s global...

Drawing Inspiration in a Pandemic — Breath Has Always Been Central to Theatre

Posted by Daniel Johnston | 26th Feb 2021 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Art

Wrapped in COVID-Safe vigilance, Australian theatre has cautiously begun to welcome back...

Sydney Festival Review: “The Rise And Fall Of Saint George” Shows The Transformative Power Of Music

Posted by Justin Ellis | 3rd Feb 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021

The Rise and Fall of Saint George is a story about place, belonging, and community that taps into...

Sydney Festival Review: Circa’s “Humans 2.0” is a Visceral Delight

Posted by Kate Maguire-Rosier | 2nd Feb 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021

Review: Humans 2.0, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa at Sydney Festival The black circular stage...

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We Get There in the End: “Return to the Dirt” Pulls Back the Curtain on Life and Death in a Funeral Home

Fake News and Propaganda Machines: New Theatre Production Pulls “Animal Farm” into the Now

Friday Essay: A World of Pain – Australian Theatre in Crisis

From Pygmies to Puppets: What to Do with Roald Dahl’s Enslaved Oompa-Loompas in Modern Adaptations?

Fringe Theatre Reaches Global Scale with Digital Platform

“Don’s Party” at 50: An Achingly Real Portrayal of The Hapless Australian Middle-Class Voter

Immersion and Spectator Self-Reckoning: “Boxing Shadows” at the Avignon Theatre Festival

A Tight, Living Room Drama of a Family in Crisis, “Appropriate” Explores Truth-Telling and Dark Histories

Shakespeare’s Rulers and Generals Are All Flawed, but the Books on His Leadership Lessons Keep Coming

Australia’s Settler and First Nations Histories Meet in The Wild of The Bush in “Dogged”

The Blurred Line Between Film and Theatre: An Experience of Simon Stone’s “Medea” at the Time of Pandemic

Galup Theatrical Walking Tour Recalls the Dancing and Violence of the Colonial Encounter

Part Escape Room, Part Choose-Your-Own Adventure — The Whodunit Whistleblower has The Audience at its Heart

“Playing Beatie Bow” is Brought to Thundering Life in a Joyous Stage Production

Pining for St Kilda Instead of Moscow: “The Cherry Orchard” Grapples With Our Cultural Inheritance

Perth Festival Review: “Whale Fall” is a Powerful Story About a Trans Boy, and the Life of a Whale

In Conversation with Yve Blake, Fangirling on the Fangirls

Drawing Inspiration in a Pandemic — Breath Has Always Been Central to Theatre

Sydney Festival Review: “The Rise And Fall Of Saint George” Shows The Transformative Power Of Music

Sydney Festival Review: Circa’s “Humans 2.0” is a Visceral Delight

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