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Without the First Folio, the canon of Shakespeare’s plays would have decisively shifted.
Amid ecological and social change and economic instability, theatre artists in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba are mapping possible outcomes and goals.
Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a ‘bible’ for scholars, voted a top 10 book of the 20th century. It also fascinated general readers, as a guide to social manners.
The Globe has used both its theatres in tandem for a single production, for the first time in its history.
In a story where you have to choose your words carefully, it’s important to convey meaning to audiences in other ways.
Shakespeare’s Conrad is now an ambitious ‘story producer’. With an eye over all the ‘Nothing Island’ action, he seeds rumours that bloom into reality TV gold.
Maeve Marsden’s play lays bare what happens when love and family are politicised.
Calls to decolonise curricula overlook the many ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are constantly being reinterpreted and revitalised in performance.
Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.
Stifling heat, drunk actors, an unfinished script – in 1985, novelist Barry Unsworth observed the chaotic creative process of playwright Dario Fo.
I’m happy again: A pandemic-induced move to virtual music theatre presents a paradigm shift for the genre, yet reveals surprising benefits in facilitating new access to music in community.
This play asks: what if it was Adam who sent an inappropriate photograph to his former lover, Lilith?
Verbatim theatre has traditionally tackled social issues but Wagatha Christie is bucking this trend and offering audiences some light entertainment.
In this play, RBG discusses her most famous cases and her conversations with three of the presidents who served during her 27-year term on the US Supreme Court.
Shakespeare often portrayed crises of legitimacy and reflected on the politics of his day but the Tories might not fare so well in a modern production.
Behind the recent row over money for a school Shakespeare festival lies the bigger problem of theatre funding in general. Establishing a genuine national theatre could be the solution.
A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
For centuries fragments of one of the most important documents about early English theatre have been scattered around the world.
He is certainly important to English but he isn’t responsible for as much of it as you might think.
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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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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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