Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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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.
There is a great track record of musical theatre tackling political material. Bloom seems too afraid of its own subject material to truly tackle the issues.
My top three works situated witnessing as a political act. These works invite you to revisit what you thought you knew.
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.
Fragmented scenes shift backwards and forwards through time to build an absorbing picture of the circle of artists who gathered around the Reeds.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Laurinda is a smart re-framing of Alice Pung’s classic coming-of-age novel.
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
