Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
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Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
Louis Nowra is one of the most significant Australian playwrights of the past 40 years. Griffith Theatre Company is staging a trilogy of his work.
In Black Swan State Theatre Company’s new production The Pool, playwright Steve Rodgers’ love of swimming is the play’s genesis
Van Badham’s A Fool in Love at the Sydney Theatre Company lampoons the modern Sydney vibe: a city obsessed with wealth, status and, of course, love.
Is That You, Ruthie? is a harrowing account of a mother and daughter’s attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
This production by Western Australian interdisciplinary theatre makers Too Close to the Sun is an experiential encounter with the liminal space between life and death.
The serious and subtle aspects of The Seagull – many of which continue to resonate today – are lost in this new production.
Dirty Birds at Black Swan State Theatre Company is the debut play by the McElhinney sisters, and the first time they’ve shared the stage.
Anna Goldsworthy’s lively writing deftly captures the joy and wilful naivety of a first pregnancy, followed by the overwhelming love and sleep-deprivation-induced anxiety of the first months.
Eamon Flack gives Bulgakov’s classic epic novel a riotous interpretation.
Shakespeare will be all but absent at Australian theatres in 2024 – but we need to embrace the complexities of the canon, not shy away from it.
This new work from Sport for Jove is more daring and ambitious than a mere adaptation of Shakespeare’s poem.
My Sister Jill disrupts ideas of colonial glory with a troubling depiction of family violence, PTSD, homophobia and the ruinous intergenerational impacts of patriarchal oppression on everyone.
Verity Laughton’s stage adaptation of Pip Williams’ best-selling book is a a very clever realisation.
Oscar Wilde’s extraordinary script is delivered with sharp wit by an extraordinary cast and placed within a production that exploits the dialogue for its viciously comic potential.
This new comedic musical is not just a dramatisation of the events of 1975, it is also an attempt to understand our maddening political culture.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of the book is both more poignant and more life-affirming from the dry bones of the original.
This new play by Suzie Miller, the one-time lawyer who wrote Prima Facie, ventures into dark places few want to confront.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Associate Head Learning and Teaching, Senior Lecturer Theatre and Performance, University of Tasmania
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Indigenous Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University
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Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
