Welcome to Witness, a new home for discussion of Australian performance. Have a look around – we’re celebrating our first month with free access to all our editorial.
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Abigail’s Party: all bling, no bang
by Alison Croggon March 26, 2018“As far as I can see, the idea seemed to be to take Leigh’s bleak satire of lower middle class aspirations and to turn it into a theatrical version of the twitter feed 70s Dinner Party.” Alison Croggon on the MTC’s Abigail’s Party.
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Akram Khan: Catastrophe embodied
by Witness Performance March 23, 2018Jane Howard on Akram Khan’s new work Xenos, which played at the Adelaide Festival at the beginning of a world tour
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Festival of Live Art: Kill Climate Deniers
by Robert Reid March 21, 2018“David Finnigan seems the most unlikely candidate for a provocateur. He’s intelligent, polite, slightly awkward. But this unassuming guy has a real talent for generating controversy.” Robert Reid reviews Kill Climate Deniers
Why Australian theatre needs intersectionality
First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee looks at why intersectional feminism in Australian Indigenous theatre is profoundly necessary.
“Luckily, I had a breakdown”: sexual harassment in Australian performing arts
Alison Croggon looks at sexual harassment in the performing arts. Australia, we have a problem.
Uninstall/Reboot: Rethinking Australian arts
Art in a time of emergency
KCA: A contrast in presences
KCA: The games of dance
KCA: Dreams of transformation
80,000 years of performance: an overview
Witness Histories Part 1: Choreographer and creative director of the Yirramboi First Nations Festival Jacob Boehme talks to Robert Reid about 80,000 years of Indigenous performance history in Australia.
The ancient avant garde
Witness Histories Part 2: Jacob Boehme talks to Robert Reid about 80,000 years of Indigenous performance history in Australia. Modernism? Post-dramatic theatre? What makes Europeans think that these are new ideas?
Theatre: Why we do care?
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Perth Festival: The poetic clarity of Robert Lepage
This is Lepage at his best, opening epic dimensions within intimate, domestic moments. Alison Croggon on The Far Side of the Moon and Polyglot Theatre’s playful Cerita Anak
Perth Festival: Nassim, a true moment
Nassim has the apparently artless simplicity that emerges only from endless artfulness. It begins with nobody knowing anything: even the actor has never seen the script before.
Perth Festival: Masculinity under the lens
Perth Festival: Arts of voice and hand
Live Nights 2018
Fanfare! As we threatened, we have put together an exciting program of Melbourne Live Nights with our Stage Partners, in which you come to the theatre with us and tell us what you thought. This is Book Club for theatre: an informal chat after a show, facilitated by Witness.
April Live Night: Personal
Come with Witness to see Jodee Mundy’s Personal, a blend of performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation that delves into the contradictions of living in a Deaf family in a society that views the family with voyeuristic curiosity.