Rising Has Yet To Establish Its Voice – But This Year’s Festival Gave Us Significant And Thrilling Work By First Nations Artists
Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Austin | 25th Jun 2023 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s...
Read MorePosted by Kate Hunter | 17th Feb 2023 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Science
Deep in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, the town of Wittenoom lies empty,...
Read MorePosted by Chris Thompson | 3rd Aug 2022 | Acting, Australia, Melbourne, Musical Theatre, Review
Review: Future. Joy. Club., Finucane & Smith The theatre of the occasion starts with a...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Balkin | 16th Jul 2022 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Melbourne, Review, Transmedia
Review: Set Piece, by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, for Rising. Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set...
Read MorePosted by Sandra D'urso | 29th Dec 2019 | Australia, Melbourne, Review
To perform an exit is not as simple as it sounds. In fact, exiting a situation can be almost...
Read MorePosted by Denise Varney | 18th Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Review
Australian literary classics are currently enjoying a comeback at our major theatre companies....
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Sandra D'urso | 24th Oct 2018 | Australia, Belarus, Festivals, Melbourne, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
The Belarus Free Theatre, exiled from their home nation, has returned to Australia to collaborate...
Read MorePosted 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,...
Read MorePosted by Sandra D'urso | 21st Jan 2018 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Review
The National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, currently...
Read MorePosted by Barbara Hatley | 15th Nov 2017 | Australia, Festivals, Indonesia, Melbourne, News, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
This is the second in a two-part series by Barbara Hatley. Read Part 1 here. Reflections on...
Read MorePosted by Barbara Hatley | 14th Nov 2017 | Asia, Australia, Festivals, Indonesia, Melbourne, News, Transcultural Collaborations
This is the first in a two-part series by Barbara Hatley. Read Part 2 here. Indonesian...
Read MorePosted by Jana Perkovic | 1st Nov 2017 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Playwriting, Review
In theatre-making, we often talk about world creation. “What is the world of the play?” teachers...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Denise Varney | 12th Jul 2017 | Australia, Melbourne
When Betty Burstall returned to Australia in 1967 after two years in New York with her husband,...
Read MorePosted by Leigh Boucher | 7th Jun 2017 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Melbourne, Musical Theatre
Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Balkin | 6th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Theatre for Young Audiences
Retelling the Biblical Book of Exodus through the eyes of children The biblical Book of Exodus...
Read MorePosted by Christian Griffiths | 8th May 2017 | Australia, Melbourne, Theatre and Disability
As we all know, the first line of Shakespeare’s Richard 3 reads, “Now is the winter of our...
Read MorePosted by Alexandra Crosby | 15th Aug 2016 | Australia, Melbourne, Participatory Theatre, Review
As the ethics of punishment are debated in mainstream media, statistics, images and unanswerable...
Read MorePosted by Robert Hassan | 14th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Review
The blurb for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s stage adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 for the...
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