Stephen Chinna – The Conversation

Igor Sas in Water. The play deals with the issues of ‘illegal’ immigration and environmental crisis in three narratives. Daniel J Grant

May 15, 2019

In Black Swan’s Water, three vignettes explore the politics of immigration, drought and family dynamics

Stephen Chinna, The University of Western Australia

In the vein of Arthur Miller, a new play sees family drama and political issues clash in an enclosed space.

Speechless is a Perth Festival co-commission produced by Tura Music. Toni Wilkinson

March 4, 2019

The sounds of Speechless, where words are superfluous

Stephen Chinna, The University of Western Australia

Speechless is an opera written in response to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2014 report into children in immigration detention.

Sunset is collaboration between freelance director and choreographer Maxine Doyle and Western Australia’s STRUT Dance, in association with Tura New Music. Simon Pynt

February 12, 2019

Sunset, a danced evocation of love, loss, and rebirth

Stephen Chinna, The University of Western Australia

As part of the 2019 Perth Festival, dance-theatre performance Sunset takes place in a former men’s home on the banks of the Swan River.

Gary Cooper as Uncle Harvey in Skylab. He offers a powerful performance as a man consumed by anger concerning the past treatment of his people. Dana Weeks

August 22, 2018

Be careful what you wish for: the moral lessons of the contemporary Dreaming play Skylab

Stephen Chinna, The University of Western Australia

In 1979, the American satellite Skylab crashed in Western Australia. A new play imagines what happened to an Aboriginal family nearby.

French-Canadian actor Yves Jacques in Robert Lepage’s The Far Side of the Moon. Toni Wilkinson

February 26, 2018

From the space‑race to filial tensions, The Far Side of the Moon explores reconcilation

Stephen Chinna, The University of Western Australia

This Perth Festival show, soon to come to Adelaide, contemplates both the mysteries of the cosmos and one man’s inner life.

Evgeny Grishkovets in Farewell to Paper: a meditation on times past, the fears raised by the dizzying turnover of technologies and the importance of patience. Toni Wilkinson

February 19, 2018

Farewell to Paper presents an engaging double act on lost things

Stephen Chinna, The University of Western Australia

A engaging show at the Perth Festival is an homage to obsolete objects - pen knives, blotting paper, inkwells, the handwritten letter, telegrams - and a meditation on time.

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