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Yaron Lifschitz's spellbinding physical drama has just the right amount of play, death-defying tricks and whimsical imagery.
Force Majeure's The Last Season, directed by Danielle Micich, forges a stimulating but disjointed narrative.
Actor Eryn Jean Norvill's portrayal of all the characters in The Portrait of Dorian Gray triumphantly illustrates Oscar Wilde's notion of the self as a form of performance.
In Kodie Bedford’s first play, Bernadette returns to her family in Geraldton – where everything is as mad as ever.
Angus Cerini’s gripping new play is about murder, revenge and the unsettling power of the Australian bush.
While the name of the season - now online - suggests breaking through opera's glass ceiling, the violent imagery fits the context of ecological disaster, inequality, mental illness, and dystopia.
This new production from State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir explores the messy and contradictory inner selves of pre-teen girls.
Director Lee Lewis is at the top of her game in this play about family relations, Australia's treatment of refugees, and the privledge inherent in the audience.
Playwright Jane Harrison's The Visitors shows audiences how a group of Indigenous leaders might have debated what to do when the First Fleet landed in 1788 - but where are the women?
Jimmy Chi's 1990 musical is given its first major stage revival – and leaves the audience singing along.
The world premiere of Nardi Simpson's Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.
This new play will feel familiar to those of us who grew up in Lebanese Australian families.
I saw the performance the first day the smoke was clearing. We need connection to find a way forward; I found it in the theatre.
A new show by indie performer Mish Grigor, with Aphids Theatre, explores all the exit opportunities that are available to us - and some doors that are better left closed.
A reliance on visual elements to create the world of performance in Japan traces back hundreds of years through kabuki dance-drama. Two new shows keep that tradition alive.
This new version of Gluck's opera, from Opera Queensland and Circa, is raw, physical and confronting. Completely captivating and deeply moving.
20 years on from Who's Afraid of the Working Class? In Anthem, the Melbourne public transportation system behaves as a microcosm of larger political tensions and anxieties.
Bryoni Trezise considers questions at the core of Back To Back Theatre's new work: why are we sitting in this theatre? What do we hope will happen? And who, really, are we?
XXX Neon Sign – a piano work about working in a Brisbane porn shop – is a new work of 'composed theatre', where the performer and the performance are inextricably linked.
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
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Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, University of Western Australia
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Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
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PhD candidate in music, University of Adelaide
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Honorary Associate, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Literature, Art, and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
