This new work from Sport for Jove is more daring and ambitious than a mere adaptation of Shakespeare’s poem.
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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.
Adapted by playwright Anchuli Felicia King, this ‘Australian classic’ is darkly funny and subversively political.
The Australian comedian has died at 89, after a career spanning seven decades.
Iain Grandage’s fourth Perth Festival continued his focus on First Nations performance, together with an exhilarating dose of Black Futurism as well as demanding post-classical music.
At its heart, Sex Magick at Griffin Theatre Company is about subverting expectations, queering desire and digging beneath the surface
Maeve Marsden’s play lays bare what happens when love and family are politicised.
Susie Dee directs this dark and spare new play by Mary Anne Butler for Red Stitch.
This play asks: what if it was Adam who sent an inappropriate photograph to his former lover, Lilith?
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production is beautiful and affecting – but it presents a Shakespeare we wish we had, rather than the one we do.
After the roaring success of Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack have produced another play that will captivate audiences.
In this play, RBG discusses her most famous cases and her conversations with three of the presidents who served during her 27-year term on the US Supreme Court.
In 1972, 5 women – Helen Garner, Claire Dobbin, Evelyn Krape, Yvonne Marini and Jude Kuring –spent 5 months workshopping a play. Frank, angry and explicit, it was a beacon of 1970s women’s liberation.
A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
Uncle Jack Charles had a remarkable career of truth-telling across theatre, screen and books.
Top contributors
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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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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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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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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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe 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
