REVIEW BY GRYFF CONNAH EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA There is always performance in the act of confession. It is an outpouring, a thing to be heard by another. Perhaps it is offered the hopes of receiving forgiveness, or better yet, absolution. It is deeply personal, and yet it has bubbled, boiled, and roiled to the point where it must jump from the confines of … Continue reading Three Excellent Confessions And One Excellent Showcase
REVIEW BY AZMY AZURITE EDITED BY AUDREY MCKENZIE Medusa may have been blindfolded yet I left the theatre gagged. Medusa sheds light on the horror of being a woman in an age of gendered violence, recontextualising a famous Greek myth in such a way that it reverberated down to my bone marrow. This is the third production by Four Letter Word Theatre that I have … Continue reading Medusa and the Ouroboros of Violence Against Women
INTERVIEW BY EMMA PARFITT On this cold, drizzly day I met with Bronte Lemaire of Four Letter Word Theatre, Blue Jordan of CIPTA and Avi Walsh-Davis of Eleven Eleven Theatre. These student writers and directors have written the mainstage shows that these student theatre groups are bringing to the stage over the coming weeks. I brought them all together for a round-table chat about their … Continue reading Dialog Spotlight: Semester One’s Student Playwrights Chat All Things Theatre-Making
REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT A man lays on a hotel bed with his wrists bound. He’s still. He doesn’t shift when she enters, when she stalks around the edges of the bed, or when she gulps down the champagne. He doesn’t even make a noise when she creeps on top of him peering. She claps once. Loudly. Twice. Then again and … Continue reading Djuna: Nervous? How Could You Not Be?
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