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GEELONG - In a quiet room in the southeast Australian town of Geelong, a group of actors with disabilities has gathered to rehearse for their first shows since winning a

A small Australian theater company made up of neurodiverse and disabled actors has won one of the world’s richest theater prizes, the 2.5 million Danish kroner (US$371,354) Ibsen award. Back to Back, which was established in 1987 and is based in Geelong, were announced as the winners of the biennial prize on Sunday night in Norway. The pioneering theater company is the first Australian recipient of the award, dubbed “the Nobel prize for theater,” which goes to an individual or company “t...

Back to Back, an ensemble of disabled actors, wins DK2.5m Ibsen prize for their ‘exciting, unsettling and thought-provoking’ work