This new production from State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir explores the messy and contradictory inner selves of pre-teen girls.
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Heroes and heroines of Classical Greek tragedy used to get all the glory. Today scholars, and theatre and film directors are looking to what the minor players can tell us about the zeitgeist.
Why shouting diversity just doesn’t cut it if the system is designed to keep people out.
This new play will feel familiar to those of us who grew up in Lebanese Australian families.
Rustle your program without getting a glare at a relaxed performance — an art form in synch with the growing field of disability arts.
A playwright known for Black Comedy tackles sorry business and loss - providing an engaging window into family life.
This new production from Alison Croggon and The Rabble asks us to consider how women’s voices are ignored, and makes us listen across time.
Moving on from tiered seats and post-war black box stages, the design of theatres are changing again in response to new societal concerns.
In a new adaptation of the classic Australian novel, the story of masculinity and despair in the outback is told through a female voice.
A new production revisits a play dropped from the Australian theatrical canon long ago. Set in a regional newsroom, the play’s themes are strikingly relevant today.
Written by a former lawyer, a new play presents a forceful critique of the Australian legal system’s treatment of sexual assault.
In the vein of Arthur Miller, a new play sees family drama and political issues clash in an enclosed space.
A new production of Cloudstreet - the play adapted from Tim Winton’s literary epic - is visually arresting. But despite a diverse cast, Indigenous characters remain spectral and peripheral.
Eliza Winstanley, who died of diabetes and exhaustion in Sydney in 1882, is largely forgotten. But as a leading artist on Australia’s earliest stages she deserves a prominent place in our theatrical histories.
A study that showed youth in five global cities lose hope as they grow into adulthood was turned into an elegant and beautiful documentary play with a plea to listen to the urgent calls of youth.
Study uncovers what inner-city teenagers really thing about Hamlet et al.
Was Jesus Christ the first male lead in the history of modern theatre?
How one academic found the perfect platform to share her research with the public.
In A Man of Good Hope, an energetic cast of over 20 performers take the audience on a journey through the life of Somali refugee Asad Abdullahi.
La Reprise is remarkable theatre about the murder of a gay man, Ihsane Jarfi, in Belgium in 2012.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Full Professor/CRC in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, C-SET, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne