“Twelfth Night” and Cross-Mobility Casting
Renowned Shakespearean actor Robert Armin wrote in 1608 of the difference between a “natural” and...
Read MorePosted by Bryoni Trezise | 2nd Aug 2016 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Disability
Renowned Shakespearean actor Robert Armin wrote in 1608 of the difference between a “natural” and...
Read MorePosted by Alexandra Coghlan | 1st Aug 2016 | Australia, Interview, Theatre and Opera
“It is easy for opera to be hijacked by the taste police, especially when the taste police have...
Read MorePosted by Huw Griffiths | 2nd May 2016 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced has arrived in Sydney from America on the back of international...
Read MorePosted by Ashley Barnwell | 28th Mar 2016 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Neil Armfield’s new stage adaptation of Kate Grenville’s 2005 novel The Secret River invites us to...
Read MorePosted by Matthew Lockitt | 3rd Mar 2016 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Original Australian musical theatre seems to be a relatively well-kept secret. The existing...
Read MorePosted by Alana Lentin | 22nd Jan 2016 | Australia, Devised Theatre, Review
Before even entering the Drama Theatre at the Sydney Opera House on the opening night of All The...
Read MorePosted by Anna Kamaralli | 21st Dec 2015 | Acting, Australia, Essay
As the year’s major family holiday season arrives, now is a good time to consider how much about...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick and Elizabeth Schafer | 23rd Nov 2015 | Australia, Playwriting, Review
In one sense every play staged is a play for its times. Something about it attracts, provokes or...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 8th Nov 2015 | Australia, Directing, Review
Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural...
Read MorePosted by Giorgia Alu | 27th Oct 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The play Jurassica, currently being performed at St. Kilda Theatre in Melbourne, begins with “the...
Read MorePosted by David Chisholm | 22nd Oct 2015 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Last night, The Experiment – of which I’m part – opened at the Melbourne Festival. The story of...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick and Elizabeth Schafer | 21st Oct 2015 | Australia, Directing, Essay
Old soldiers fade away. Old theatre directors disappear more quickly. And old female directors can...
Read MorePosted by Asher Warren | 19th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
The tragedy of Shakespeare’s Desdemona haunts the literary canon. Her murder at the hands of her...
Read MorePosted by Michael Halliwell | 18th Oct 2015 | Australia, Design, Review, Theatre and Opera
What is opera? This is a question that has engaged puzzled commentators and practitioners since...
Read MorePosted by Paul Rae | 15th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
In Desdemona, Toni Morrison’s response to Shakespeare’s Othello, which opens today at the...
Read MorePosted by Farida Fozdar | 14th Oct 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Dance
Australia’s “boat people crisis” has, we’re told, been averted and for many, it’s a case of “out...
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...
Read MorePosted by Anny Mokotow | 13th Oct 2015 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, News, Transcultural Collaborations
Last week, Melbourne Festival opened with a production from the Belgian dance theatre...
Read MorePosted by Yoni Prior | 29th Sep 2015 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Disability
When I first travelled overseas, fresh out of university in the early 1980s, I found myself in the...
Read MorePosted by Jennifer Anderson | 14th Sep 2015 | Australia, Essay, Participatory Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences
A highlight of this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, which begins tomorrow, is an expanded...
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