Training with actors gives nurses the chance to practise caring for a diverse set of patients.
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Using actors can provide nurses with valuable training dealing with a diverse set of patients.
A still from the NT at Home recorded production of Amadeus.
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Streaming has made theatre more accessible to a wider audience. However, it needs to be monetised and shouldn’t take the place of live theatre, which is in dire need of funding.
Punchdrunk’s production of The Masque of the Red Death.
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The performing arts sector will need to change after the pandemic. This new venture is a glimpse of how it might look.
The musical re-telling of the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton has been widely praised for its pro-immigrant and anti-colonial sentiments.
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It may have a diverse cast but it erases the Black and Indigenous people who were there in the room and relegates women to the sidelines.
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Hamilton – soon to stream as a film – has been hailed as radical. But it’s true to the traditions of the American musical – the pursuit of truth, freedom and the American dream.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus at the White House, May 15, 2020.
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What does Dr. Anthony Fauci have in common with a fictional doctor in Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1882 play, ‘An Enemy of the People’? More than you’d think.
Students in an after-school drama club in Athens rehearse their performance about the refugee crisis, March 2017.
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Despite hardships, youth are rallying to build a new vision for the planet. The rest of us should join them.
Madeleine MacMahon as ‘Sebastianne’ in a live production of The Tempest by Creation Theatre from 2019.
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We can’t go to the theatre but some creative theatre groups are bringing it to us, via Zoom.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.
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By combining the tradition facets with modern music Lloyd Webber reinvigorated the form.
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Empatheatre’s latest production is more than a play about three characters who live near the sea. It’s a model for collective consultation on how to save the ocean.
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New grants to aid the arts and culture sector are welcome. But as we look for distraction and meaning in isolation, a bigger correction is needed to how the government values Australian creativity.
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Physical proximity is intrinsic to performance and communicates considerable meaning. Social isolation has implications for artistic connection.
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This new production from State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir explores the messy and contradictory inner selves of pre-teen girls.
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Heroes and heroines of Classical Greek tragedy used to get all the glory. Today scholars, and theatre and film directors are looking to what the minor players can tell us about the zeitgeist.
You’re great, just don’t get too big for your boots.
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Why shouting diversity just doesn’t cut it if the system is designed to keep people out.
The set design for Lady Tabouli captures all of the details of Lebanese-Australian family life.
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This new play will feel familiar to those of us who grew up in Lebanese Australian families.
Erin Ball performs at Cripping the Arts at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, in January 2019. She balances with her hands on the arms of an old wheelchair. Behind her, two long pegs extend from her prosthetic legs.
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Rustle your program without getting a glare at a relaxed performance — an art form in synch with the growing field of disability arts.
The play is a window into the living room of an Indigenous family. Image by Stephen Henry.
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A playwright known for Black Comedy tackles sorry business and loss - providing an engaging window into family life.
My Dearworthy Darling: the new production from writer Alison Croggon and theatre company The Rabble.
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This new production from Alison Croggon and The Rabble asks us to consider how women’s voices are ignored, and makes us listen across time.
The mobile Soundforms stage brings indoor musical performances outside.
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Moving on from tiered seats and post-war black box stages, the design of theatres are changing again in response to new societal concerns.