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Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tribute to the value of laughter and comedy, and the power of theatre in these ruthless times.
Belvoir’s new play Nayika: A Dancing Girl blends music, dance and drama using a neo-classical version of Bharatanatyam dance.
Set in 1990s suburban Australia, The Exact Dimensions of Hell is a theatrical exploration that unflinchingly examines themes of teenage girls, desire and power.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s captivating revival of the 1975 play, co-produced with Dublin’s Gate Theatre, manages to balance the loathing and humour of Thomas Bernhard’s writing.
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
Louis Nowra is one of the most significant Australian playwrights of the past 40 years. Griffith Theatre Company is staging a trilogy of his work.
In Black Swan State Theatre Company’s new production The Pool, playwright Steve Rodgers’ love of swimming is the play’s genesis
Van Badham’s A Fool in Love at the Sydney Theatre Company lampoons the modern Sydney vibe: a city obsessed with wealth, status and, of course, love.
Is That You, Ruthie? is a harrowing account of a mother and daughter’s attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
This production by Western Australian interdisciplinary theatre makers Too Close to the Sun is an experiential encounter with the liminal space between life and death.
The serious and subtle aspects of The Seagull – many of which continue to resonate today – are lost in this new production.
Dirty Birds at Black Swan State Theatre Company is the debut play by the McElhinney sisters, and the first time they’ve shared the stage.
Anna Goldsworthy’s lively writing deftly captures the joy and wilful naivety of a first pregnancy, followed by the overwhelming love and sleep-deprivation-induced anxiety of the first months.
Eamon Flack gives Bulgakov’s classic epic novel a riotous interpretation.
Shakespeare will be all but absent at Australian theatres in 2024 – but we need to embrace the complexities of the canon, not shy away from it.
This new work from Sport for Jove is more daring and ambitious than a mere adaptation of Shakespeare’s poem.
My Sister Jill disrupts ideas of colonial glory with a troubling depiction of family violence, PTSD, homophobia and the ruinous intergenerational impacts of patriarchal oppression on everyone.
Top contributors
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Associate Head Learning and Teaching, Senior Lecturer Theatre and Performance, University of Tasmania
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Indigenous Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
