This Perth Festival show, soon to come to Adelaide, contemplates both the mysteries of the cosmos and one man’s inner life.
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Robert Merritt, author of The Cake Man, grew up on the Erambie Mission at Cowra. His play captures the grinding poverty and emotional paralysis of the mission experience.
A theatre production of Mark Haddon’s much-loved novel is affirmative and at times deeply sentimental, with a hi-tech set, and exacting choreography.
It is important for actors to ‘de-role’ after performing their character – but this is not something they routinely do.
The Town Hall Affair is a recreation of a 1971 debate between Germaine Greer and other feminists and Norman Mailer. It feels exceptionally prescient in 2018.
From Muriel’s Wedding to a suite of budding new shows, 2017 was a great year for original Australian musicals.
A new form of ticketing is becoming more popular in the arts – and it might help us be more charitable than before.
While we appreciate an actor’s craft on the stage, the deep emotions they draw on in performance take their toll on mental health. Actors need to “take off” their characters to return to normal life.
Muriel Heslop stole Australia’s heart when she debuted on screen in 1994. Now she gets a loving, ABBA-filled musical tribute, that is definitely not terrible.
Based on the 2004 novel, Let the Right One is a bloody staging of a vampire romance. Except in this show, the predator is a teenage girl.
If theatre, film and TV is to accurately reflect the world we live in, then the actors cast must reflect that diversity too.
Self-expression from the streets.
Germinal has the intentional naivete of a long brainstorm, made concrete with stage props, music and projection, but it rumbles through some incredibly sophisticated concepts.
The stage is the perfect place to explore dark thoughts.
We’re told VR will let distant audiences experience live shows from the comfort of their living room – but what if no one goes anymore?
Caravan tells the tale of a mother and daughter who live in a caravan. Staged in the Malthouse Theatre’s forecourt, it is a sweet look at class and gender.
Australian rapper Joelistics and producer James Mangohig bring their family histories to the stage through a breathtaking display of beats, raps and storytelling.
Taylor Mac’s 90-minute version of a 24-hour history of pop music is a hit, determined to forge a renewed sense community with the audience.
Kuro Tanino’s Dark Inn is a contemporary take on traditional Japanese theatre, contemplating the darkness of desire.
The first recorded performance of the theatre company that Shakespeare co-founded was at a playhouse south of the Thames, but was lost to historians for centuries. Now we know where it lies.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), University of Regina
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, Macquarie University
