Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny speech’ forms the inciting incident and climatic ending of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play Julia, produced by the Sydney Theatre Company.
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Adelaide Festival is arguably the most robust international arts festival in our region.
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.
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.
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 Raisin in the Sun is arguably one of the most compelling narratives of 20th century Black American life.
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.
Anne Brontë’s novel was a skewering of her sister’s romantic heroes. Now a new adaptation finds something completely modern in her words.
In an unexpected pleasure, Paige Rattray places the stage directions of Arthur Miller’s play front and centre.
Kip Williams’ modern telling of Julius Caesar asks us to consider just how political stories are told, re-told, and told again.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ acerbic, hilarious play is set on an old American plantation, but Wesley Enoch brings an Australian sensibility.
Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow thrums with heart, humour and a sense of creative legacy.
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.
Angus Cerini’s gripping new play is about murder, revenge and the unsettling power of the Australian bush.
Avalanche: A Love Story, is a play based on the author’s memoir detailing the anguish of her six unsuccessful attempts at IVF. It depicts doctors who prey upon an ageing woman’s despair and the stigma attached to ‘failed’ mothers.
Was Mary Stuart a passionate and jealous failed queen, or a brave and complex woman? Opposing representations in a new film and play reflect modern anxieties about women’s agency and leadership.
Nakkiah Lui’s Black is the New White takes 17th-century comedy of manners and uses it to probe race and class to great effect.
An early review of Patrick White’s A Cheery Soul said it ‘upset everybody who saw it’. But this extraordinary play, once a victim of 60s cultural cringe, marked a turning point in Australian theatre.
Sydney Theatre Company now has an interim artistic director, after the sudden departure of Jonathan Church. A flagship theatre company can transform a city’s view of its place in the world, which is why the role is so important.
Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced explores the contemporary conflict between Islam and the West by exposing the fear and loathing lurking beneath personal relationships.
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Law, The University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Professor of English, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Professor and Acting PVC Research and Innovation, University of Newcastle, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Theatre Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of English, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in American Literature, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
