UK – The Malthouse Theatre in the heart of the City of Canterbury, an impressive and magnificent converted Victorian building belonging to the oldest sch
Imagining a dry Australian dystopia that feels uncomfortably real
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“I am not a prophet,” author Margaret Atwood once said of the horrors inflicted on women in her dark dystopian novel
The Handmaid’s Tale. Everything depicted had already happened, she insisted. That’s the essence of the best speculative writing: there’s more truth than fiction in these possible futures.
Rachel Perks is absolutely on the same page. The recipient of Malthouse Theatre’s inaugural Playwriting Innovation Award and writer of
Ground Control and
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Exploring the wondrous RISING festival program at Arts Centre Melbourne Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon at the University of Bristol
Words By Meg Crawford
From a tribute to Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupiŋu to a supernatural forest and two seminal theatre shows, Arts Centre Melbourne has prepared something special for RISING festival.
If you’re going to start anything auspiciously, you may as well kick off on a full lunar eclipse, which is exactly when Melbourne’s brand-spanking new cultural extravaganza, RISING, presses go. For 12 days starting Wednesday May 26, RISING will sprawl the city and bring live music, art, theatre, installations and everything in between to different districts, including The Birrarung, Midtown and Chinatown.
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One of Australiaâs most in-demand theatre talents, Anne-Louise Sarks, has been signed as Melbourne Theatre Companyâs first female artistic director in its 68-year history.
The move has been hailed as a coup for the MTC, which gains an artist with a growing international reputation, fresh from stints working in London, Europe and Sydney. Sarks most recently directed ABC journalist Sally Saraâs
Stop Girl at Belvoir in March.
Anne-Louise Sarks in 2018.
Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
Sarks has pledged to bring new voices and perspectives to MTC, and to âtake that work to the world,â creating new theatre that will put Australian plays on the global stage.