This production of a very great play by the State Theatre Company of South Australia is beautiful, clarified, and haunting. You will be relieved to know it is “excellent”. More to the point it is right.
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The success of the Opera Australia and Barking Gecko Theatre’s Rabbits offers a chance to celebrate the pioneering nature of children’s theatre in Australia.
Regardless of reasoning and the plethora of scholarship that exists, Greek tragedy remains the most modern form of drama. It is unafraid to question everything we value.
Seventeen is the story of teenagers on the brink of adulthood; its canny trick is a cast of actors in their 70s. Despite this, it’s a conservative play that adheres to a predictably happy ending.
Bold programming at the Edinburgh Fringe challenges the engrained tick-box culture, which at its worst, serves only to pay lip service to diversity.
What makes Hamlet the career defining role it is today?
‘Theatre directors come in two kinds: “star” and “of use”. I’m in the latter category, which means that, for any given play, there are at least three or four other directors who could do it equally well.’
Given the pressure being applied to the majority of people working in the arts sector, we would be foolish not to consider the roles and inherited rights of Australia’s major performing companies.
New stories can offer insight on alternative ways of living out our lives. As the experience in Cambodia shows, the performing arts can help us face up to enormous challenges and possibilities.
A gang-rape scene in a new London staging of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell was greeted with audience booing, and has sparked ongoing controversy. Are opera directors at risk of miscomprehending the medium?
In cultural policy every good idea becomes a bad one if the context is confused. The fact there wasn’t initial clarity around the Program for Excellence indicates it will probably do more harm than good.
The cast have made a personal and emotional sacrifice in entering into the nightmare world of Jimmy Savile. And for that, they deserve our respect and praise.
Covering love, loss and IVF, Kylie Trounson’s latest play explores the life of her own father, pioneering biologist Alan Trounson, and the invention of IVF.
It’s been seven years since Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to Indigenous Australians. On Australia’s stages dramatists continue to explore the ramifications of that apology and colonial history.
The film is a brilliant and nuanced study of the relationship between a younger and older woman.
You’d be forgiven for thinking Double Falsehood was recently “found” and confirmed as being by Shakespeare. But that’s not what the researchers behind the computational tests actually said. So what’s up?
Right now, do we need light jokes about slightly potty old Blighty?
Meet four women who have lived, breathed and worked to actually become Alice.
Tansy Davies’s opera raises serious questions about the appropriation of horrific events into art works.
Bowie and the Bible have long been tied together in the work of director Ivo van Hove.
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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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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate and Teaching Associate, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Literature and Film Studies, Keele University
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Associate Professor, History, Macquarie University
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Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Nottingham