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Thriving then decimated: the year that was - and wasn't - in theatre Thriving then decimated: the year that was - and wasn't - in theatre By Cameron Woodhead Normal text size Advertisement Theatre people will be as glad as anyone to see the curtain close on 2020. Melbourne is rightly proud of its performing arts culture, and until March this year – before the longest theatre closures in modern Australian history – it was in full bloom. Black Ties reimagines the rom-com from a First Nations perspective. Credit:Steven Siewert Last summer feels like a distant era now. Looking back, it exemp...

Australian theatre grapples with access, diversity and job losses through the coronavirus shutdown Posted FriFriday 18 DecDecember 2020 at 7:03pm The Sydney Opera House was among the thousands of venues across Australia that went dark at the onset of the pandemic. ( Share Print text only Cancel It's hard to quantify just how damaging 2020 has been for the Australian theatre sector. Performing arts workers — from writers and directors to ushers, stagehands and lighting artists — lost work overnight, after theatres across the country went dark in March. Due to the short-term contract-base...

December 15, 2020 9:58 am In 2008, a small group of die-hard fans saved the last remaining Polaroid factory, located in the Netherlands, from shutting down. Calling themselves the Impossible Project, the small cadre of instant photography fans became the “brand guardians” of the nine-decades-old Polaroid name. The team focused on producing film to begin with, and it wasn’t until 2017 that Polaroid began making cameras again. “Most people don’t know the current iteration of Polaroid is different from the company they remember from the height of its fame 30 years ago,” says creati...