A theatre production of Mark Haddon’s much-loved novel is affirmative and at times deeply sentimental, with a hi-tech set, and exacting choreography.
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While we appreciate an actor’s craft on the stage, the deep emotions they draw on in performance take their toll on mental health. Actors need to “take off” their characters to return to normal life.
Muriel Heslop stole Australia’s heart when she debuted on screen in 1994. Now she gets a loving, ABBA-filled musical tribute, that is definitely not terrible.
Based on the 2004 novel, Let the Right One is a bloody staging of a vampire romance. Except in this show, the predator is a teenage girl.
The stage is the perfect place to explore dark thoughts.
It is a strange reality but opera as an artform is always given special and arguably preferential treatment by governments and other influential forces in Western society. This happens, it seems, regardless…
Laser Beak Man and its superheroic puppetry will delight young and old at the Brisbane Festival.
New survey from the Australia Council shows pretty much all Australians engage with the arts, and 8-in-10 do so online. However more people are ambivalent about public arts funding, and more people think the arts are too expensive.
‘Well behaved women seldom make history,’ wrote historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Revolt. She said. Revolt again. at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre takes the idea to its apocalyptic extremes.
Musical theatre nominees at the 2017 Helpmann Awards are dominated by overseas productions. Our own productions need way more support to compete on the world stage.
No other Australian playwright has mined their own life as much as Dorothy Hewett. In this expressionist drama, she depicts a girl of yearning heart, looking for love and hungry for life.
Scrutinising the output of a national theatre at a time of rising nationalism is a worthwhile activity, but it needs either radical intention or emotional insight.
The really remarkable thing about Greig’s Malvolia is not that she is a woman. It is that Greig has completely re-conceived Shakespeare’s character.
Newly-discovered scripts reveal the public hopes, dreams and fears of prisoners in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Theresienstadt.
Woody Harrelson’s directorial debut, released this month, signals that we are in a new age of cinema.
There’s a problematic bias in the way that assisted suicide is portrayed in the media.
For over four centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have been picked apart and reimagined.
For many, it is Rice’s advocacy of gender equality and diversity that define her short tenure at the Globe. So what happens next?
Verbatim theatre is being adopted more and more to give a voice to marginalised communities in the hope of instigating social change.
Margaret of Anjou can still speak to modern women in power today.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
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The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University
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