Angus Cerini’s gripping new play is about murder, revenge and the unsettling power of the Australian bush.
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While the name of the season - now online - suggests breaking through opera’s glass ceiling, the violent imagery fits the context of ecological disaster, inequality, mental illness, and dystopia.
This new production from State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir explores the messy and contradictory inner selves of pre-teen girls.
Director Lee Lewis is at the top of her game in this play about family relations, Australia’s treatment of refugees, and the privledge inherent in the audience.
Playwright Jane Harrison’s The Visitors shows audiences how a group of Indigenous leaders might have debated what to do when the First Fleet landed in 1788 - but where are the women?
Jimmy Chi’s 1990 musical is given its first major stage revival – and leaves the audience singing along.
The world premiere of Nardi Simpson’s Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.
This new play will feel familiar to those of us who grew up in Lebanese Australian families.
I saw the performance the first day the smoke was clearing. We need connection to find a way forward; I found it in the theatre.
A new show by indie performer Mish Grigor, with Aphids Theatre, explores all the exit opportunities that are available to us - and some doors that are better left closed.
A reliance on visual elements to create the world of performance in Japan traces back hundreds of years through kabuki dance-drama. Two new shows keep that tradition alive.
This new version of Gluck’s opera, from Opera Queensland and Circa, is raw, physical and confronting. Completely captivating and deeply moving.
20 years on from Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? In Anthem, the Melbourne public transportation system behaves as a microcosm of larger political tensions and anxieties.
Bryoni Trezise considers questions at the core of Back To Back Theatre’s new work: why are we sitting in this theatre? What do we hope will happen? And who, really, are we?
XXX Neon Sign – a piano work about working in a Brisbane porn shop – is a new work of ‘composed theatre’, where the performer and the performance are inextricably linked.
Avalanche: A Love Story, is a play based on the author’s memoir detailing the anguish of her six unsuccessful attempts at IVF. It depicts doctors who prey upon an ageing woman’s despair and the stigma attached to ‘failed’ mothers.
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.
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.
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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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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Associate professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle