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Next week, Back to Back picks up theatre’s International Ibsen Award. Why? For making audiences question their assumptions - and sometimes feel uncomfortable.
Back To Back theatre, the Australian theatre company featuring a neurodiverse ensemble of actors, have been awarded the International Ibsen Award 2022
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 “that has brought new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theater.” Back to Back is renowne...
Back to Back, an ensemble of disabled actors, wins DK2.5m Ibsen prize for their ‘exciting, unsettling and thought-provoking’ work