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

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

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

“Oedipus Schmoedipus” at HKREP Black Box Theatre

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

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

Traditional Storytelling Meets New Media Activism In Iran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

Posted by Lisa Harper Campbell | 11th Oct 2018 | Australia, Review

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Posted by Gillian Arrighi | 2nd Aug 2018 | Australia, Essay

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

Problems With Gender Equality In Australia’s Dance Industry

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

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...