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.
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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.
Fragmented scenes shift backwards and forwards through time to build an absorbing picture of the circle of artists who gathered around the Reeds.
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.
A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
A Raisin in the Sun is arguably one of the most compelling narratives of 20th century Black American life.
Based on Anne Deveson’s 1991 memoir about her son’s experience with schizophrenia, this play can be achingly sad. But it also offers hope.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Laurinda is a smart re-framing of Alice Pung’s classic coming-of-age novel.
Gaslight, fog, and mysterious doorways abound in STC’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a play which is a complex portrait of morals being realigned in a new world of discovery.
In this new Australian work, sound, image and physical body are decoupled, and gradually splintered like the many facets of our online presence.
Finucane & Smith inject burlesque and vaudeville with witty and often confrontational political provocations.
Anne Brontë’s novel was a skewering of her sister’s romantic heroes. Now a new adaptation finds something completely modern in her words.
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
In this new work at Melbourne’s Rising Festival, Anything & Everything lets kids tell us how they see themselves and the world around them.
Son of Byblos, from Brave New World Theatre Company, looks at the forbidden territory of queer sexuality in Lebanese-Australian families.
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Julian Meyrick is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland
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Humanities Researcher, Flinders University
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
