Theatre

Archives are an incomplete but important record of dance and theatre, and the history and artistry of University of Melbourne students is being revisited through these ‘remains’

History and future come together with a new staging of Ray Lawler’s iconic play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at the new Union Theatre

There’s no easy answer to writing great plays but part of the magic comes from empathy, experience and all that is wondrous and strange

Alyson Campbell will co-lead the Feral Queer Camp, hosting activities about what makes performance queer and how we might develop a network of queer thinkers

A new book explores the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare’s original audiences that are now lost to us, and their value to early modern drama

Working with the limitations and opportunities of online interfaces, artists whose careers survive the pandemic will emerge with an altered sense of what they do, and of their place in society

A new production puts a generation of emerging African-Australian theatrical voices centre stage, telling stories that excite and challenge

Stage combat isn’t about hitting stuff – it requires a lot of choreography, training and skill to create the convincing illusion that you are, actually, hitting stuff

It’s the 17th-century witch-hunt story everybody knows, but what relevance does Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible have today? Acclaimed theatre director Adena Jacobs explains her modern take on the play, before her UK operatic directorial debut

Kim Ho has won the prestigious Patrick White Playwrights’ Award for his play Mirror’s Edge, which explores the interplay of Anglo-European, Chinese, and Indigenous cultures in Australia across three centuries