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Directors and designers can collaborate remotely in a virtual space. iDesign allows directors and designers to test out their ideas in the digital twin of the entire theatre environment. UNSW Sydney Scientia Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow Dennis Del Favero at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture is leading the development of the iDesign platform, enabling the creation of a digital twin of a real theatre production design. The revolutionary prototyping platform assisted Sydney Theatre Company (STC) in the early stages of developing a production while the theatre it...

Review: Playing Beatie Bow, directed by Kip Williams. Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail who, from her home in Sydney’s The Rocks, slips back in time to 1873. Here, she is taken in by the Tallisker/Bow family, immigrants from the Orkney Islands who run a confectionery shop. Abigail finds herself cast as the mysterious “Stranger” — the subject of a Tallisker family prophecy — which she must enact before she is able to return to her own time. In adapting Ruth Park’s 1980 novel for the stage, Kate Mulvany carries forward Park’s detailed, loving at...

How the power of teenage girls makes Playing Beatie Bow an enduring classic Save Normal text size Advertisement In a small cabin in Broken Hill, Sofia Nolan propped her phone up on a cereal box and was preparing to audition over Zoom for her first lead mainstage theatre role. “It was really dark and I really struggled to get the light in, because the sun kept moving,” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘In what universe is this going to go well?’” Catherine Văn-Davies (left) and Sofia Nolan tap into their natural chemistry for their lead roles in Playing Beatie Bow...

Two sides of Kate: from the Incredible Hulk to a limp piece of cabbage Save Normal text size Advertisement Yorick arrives at the Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf with Kate Mulvany. Although, in truth, audiences know the acclaimed actor and writer well for her association with Richard III - her knockout performance in the lead role won multiple awards - rather than Hamlet, where the skull of the aforementioned Yorick (alas) appears. In this instance, Yorick is the name of the silver-skull-tipped walking stick that accompanies Mulvany who lives with a significant spinal disability. Althoug...