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Theatre is able to create a space for discussion about how and why women experience physical and emotional violence.
5 ways to support safe live performance re-openings as we emerge from COVID-19.
Samuel Beckett’s first play was once most notorious for the audible yawns, walkouts (and fights) during interval. But it is a play of great insight into the condition of waiting.
The founder of the Bell Shakespeare Company has written a book gleaning leadership wisdom from the bard. But figures such as Richard III and Julius Caesar are hardly ones to emulate.
Arts Minister Paul Fletcher has taken aim at what he calls a ‘cosy club’ of arts elites. But his claim of ‘unprecedented’ arts funding and a push for greater fairness don’t add up.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ acerbic, hilarious play is set on an old American plantation, but Wesley Enoch brings an Australian sensibility.
The independent theatre will be a monument to how a failed department of arts and culture could not match state support with public philanthropy.
Produced by Perth’s wunderkinder ensemble The Last Great Hunt, Whistleblower is about the thrill of the risk when you throw the audience into the spotlight.
The French government, by prioritizing only “essential” sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic, is ignoring the importance of its culture and cultural assets.
This new play based on Martin McKenna’s memoir tells a difficult story with theatrical skill and artistic heart.
With the community, the group of theatre-makers and academics created a play that could also serve as a policy brief on what’s missing from the battle to reduce drug use in Durban.
Theatre and audiences are slowly beginning to share the same airspace again. We are freshly conscious of breath, but it has always been intimately linked with the dramatic arts.
The 1921 play R.U.R. introduced the world to the word ‘robots’. Its plot is remarkably similar to robot stories told today.
Safe spaces for conversations around immigrants’ experiences are important because identity is central to diversity and inclusion in the 21st century. Theatre can be a tool for community engagement.
There are a host of stage musicals set for film adaptation in the coming year and they are sure to draw big
Ghana’s history shows a strong connection between music and politics that has evolved over six decades.
You might think he’s the hero of his own story but the murder happy Hamlet is really an unconscionable brute.
We interviewed Victorians working — or not working — in the arts during the pandemic lockdown to learn about their mental health. We found they are struggling.
Cambodia found the strength to rebuild itself
through art after the 1979 genocide. While the context is different, this example suggests the importance of art in navigating COVID-19.
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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
