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Jorjia Gillis’ comedy on racism and sexism is premiering at Griffin Theatre Company. It has a sharp edge and a big heart.
Commentary, the new play now on at State Theatre Company South Australia, is an acerbic flaying of public and private personas.
In Steve Rodgers’ new play, now at Malthouse, solid performances are undermined by expository writing.
This new Melbourne Theatre Company Production of Chekhov’s classic is adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith and directed by Anne-Louise Sarks.
Theatre can model new possibilities, transform thinking and centre the rights and needs of children.
This clear-eyed adaptation makes the most of its literary roots while also piecing together a unique theatrical language.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s version of Tennessee Williams’ play invites real experimentation back into the Melbourne main stage conversation.
Megan Wilding’s Game. Set. Match., now playing at Malthouse, is both a powerful reckoning with colonial violence and a love letter to self.
Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead has now been adapted for the stage.
A new play from Melbourne Theatre Company tells the story of the collapse of the bridge during construction in 1970 – Australia’s worst industrial disaster.
Simon Burke gives a bold, brave performance of a cross-dressing elocution teacher who lives in Double Bay in the 1970s, in this new production from Griffin Theatre.
Melbourne’s Red Stitch is reviving Summer and the Seventeenth Doll and its two prequels, together for the first time since 1985.
This new play at Melbourne Theatre Company is a sharp, often darkly comic examination of conformity and resistance within the modern corporate structure.
Unfortunately, despite an impressive cast and some outstanding performances, this King Lear is as exciting as boiled cabbage.
Cory Taylor’s 2016 book Dying: A Memoir spoke of her cancer diagnosis and impending death. Now it’s on stage with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes is her latest interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, told through the story of a showgirl.
The classic 1955 D’Arcy Niland novel has been dapted by Kate Mulvany and directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company
First published in 1928, Virgina Woolf’s Orlando throws gender politics into the air. A new adaptation fails to define a problem for Orlando to push back against.
Tom Wright’s new play for Malthouse poses a fundamental question: who can truly own land?
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Professor of Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University