“The Secret River”: Colonial Oppression on Australian Stages
One way of looking at a story is as a mental suitcase that brings together a bunch of actions that...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 14th Mar 2017 | Australia, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
One way of looking at a story is as a mental suitcase that brings together a bunch of actions that...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 7th Mar 2017 | Australia, Directing
For a theatre director, plays are like bulls: it doesn’t matter how fancy your cape work is, any...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 23rd Feb 2017 | Australia
In 2004, Melbourne Theatre Company, where I worked at the time, asked me to write a short history...
Read MorePosted by Lyndall Grant | 20th Feb 2017 | Australia, China, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
China’s one-child policy officially ended in 2016. Little Emperors, currently showing at...
Read MorePosted by Maryrose Casey | 7th Feb 2017 | Australia
“Yellamundie” is a Darug word for storyteller, and the name of a biennial play development...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 5th Feb 2017 | Asia, Australia, Festivals, Producing, Theatre and Dance
Sometimes the weather simply won’t cooperate. Between a state-wide blackout, monsoonal rain, and...
Read MorePosted by Joel Hodge | 31st Jan 2017 | Australia, Essay, Ireland, Sydney
Colm Tóibín’s play and the Booker-nominated novella The Testament of Mary aims to “demythologise”...
Read MorePosted by Emma Cox | 17th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
When, some eight or nine years ago, I began researching the responses of Australian and refugee...
Read MorePosted by Alex First | 13th Dec 2016 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review
Bold and provocative, directed by Sarah Vickery.Thomas Ian Doyle’s latest work – The Upstairs...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 9th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay
In 1955, two plays, The Torrents by Oriel Gray and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler,...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 4th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay
Rusty Bugles is a comedy-drama by Sumner Locke Elliot, one of the many talented writers to abandon...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 2nd Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay
You could say that a canonical play is one where you’re the problem if you don’t like it. The...
Read MorePosted by Bianca Fileborn | 30th Sep 2016 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Young men’s use of pornography has been the focus of considerable debate, if not anxiety and moral...
Read MorePosted by William Peterson | 24th Sep 2016 | Australia, Festivals, News, Transmedia
The formal launch of the OzAsia Festival’s visual arts program at the Adelaide Festival Centre...
Read MorePosted by Peta Tait | 12th Sep 2016 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Opera
Circus has always shamelessly borrowed from other performance forms. It has coopted all types of...
Read MorePosted by Vanessa Tomlinson | 5th Sep 2016 | Australia, Review
David Berthold’s 2016 Brisbane Festival aims to connect artists and audiences in ways that disrupt...
Read MorePosted by Huw Griffiths | 22nd Aug 2016 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Age
Our experience of plays is always profoundly affected by how they end: comedy or tragedy, death or...
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 Julian Meyrick | 10th Aug 2016 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting
The first Australian National Playwrights Centre (ANPC) was founded in 1973 – the age of bongs,...
Read MorePosted by David McInnis | 5th Aug 2016 | Australia, Review
While the rest of the world is marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death,...
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