play thirty six: shopping and fucking
Author: Mark Ravenhill Published: 1996 Synopsis: “The sexual violence of Shopping and Fucking explores what is possible if consumerism supersedes all other moral codes. To this effect everything,...
View Articleplay thirty seven: the spirits play
Author: Kuo Pao Kun Published: 1998 Translator: C.J.W.L.Lee and Lee Chee Keng Synopsis: Five Japanese spirits – a General, a Man, a Mother, a Girl and a Poet – recall their life experience in the...
View Articleplay thirty eight: black medea
Author: Wesley Enoch Published: 2007 Synopsis: “Black Medea is Wesley Enoch’s richly poetic adaptation of Euripides’ Medea. Blending the cultures of Ancient Greek and Indigenous storytelling, Enoch...
View Articlethe wife of the man of many wiles
Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove, If you wish, twenty years, and waited, while you Were knee-deep in blood, hip-deep in goddesses. I’ve not much to show for twenty years’ weaving— I have...
View Articlethe solipsism of risk
This is an article I wrote about the meaning of creative risk that has been published on NITEnews, which you can access here. The current celebration of risk in theatre is misdirected. In Australia in...
View Articlepart one: penelope
The first image I had for I sat and waited but you were gone too long was of Penelope. She was sitting in the middle of a room absolutely filled with cloth, her fingers bleeding into the fabric as she...
View Articlepart two: she completes me
SHE COMPLETES ME: FEMALE FRIENDSHIP, IDENTITY, AND RACIAL SHAME IN TONI MORRISON’S SULA AND LOVE This was the title of the English Honours thesis that I wrote in 2013, which has provided the foundation...
View Articlepart three: grief and music
It’s a Sunday night and I’m walking back towards Lygon Street after seeing a friend’s show at La Mama. There’s a double-bass player busking, still playing from when I’d been heading towards the theatre...
View Articlepart four: the changing room
I swim a lot and so spend a lot of time in swimming pool changing rooms. These rooms are a space that seem, to me, to be unique. I don’t know anything that makes me feel the way I do there – safe,...
View Articledinner and a show #1: christopher bryant
For our first official dinner and a show for 2017, we caught up with our first official D + S writer Chris Bryant through a cheeky Q&A. What writing have you brought to dinner and a show? A piece...
View Articlean essay on failure by angus cameron
When I was much younger I read the Wikipedia page for the Ingmar Bergman film Persona. I identified with it instantly and knew it was going to be one of my favourite films. I had a moment of...
View Articlea womb of one’s own by fiona spitzkowsky
We are thrilled to be working with Fi Spitzkowsky as our second dinner and a show participant, and are indebted to her for this stunning insight into some of the thoughts driving her new work The View...
View ArticleI ♥ Bobby Briggs by Jane E. Thompson
Really, I’ve found the below much harder to write than it should be. Perhaps because I’m still in the midst of working out what the hell it is I’m doing and I’m not yet ready to articulate it. Excuse...
View ArticleBARON バロン by Eric Gardiner
Eric Gardiner is our fourth dinner and a show writer. He will be sharing a selection of scenes from and research about his new play BARON バロン, and has shared some thoughts about the unfolding process...
View ArticleFucked Up White Girls by Emily Sheehan
Emily Sheehan is our fifth (where has that time gone?) dinner and a show writer and she’s shared some of her thoughts here on her new work Fucked Up White Girls. What writing have you brought to dinner...
View Articlethe ideal state by christopher bryant
We asked our next Arvo Tea and a Show writer Chris Bryant to reflect on the development of his play The Great Dark Spot. I am in a definite state of confusion with this play. You see, it wasn’t ever...
View Articlewonder women by hayley lawson-smith
Our sixth D + S writer Hayley Lawson-Smith reflects on the Wonder Woman zeitgeist ahead of her session with us on her new work Fly. Strong women don’t come from other planets. Okay, to be honest, I had...
View Articlesorry i love you by brendan mcdougall
Here are some thoughts from our upcoming dinner and a show writer Brendan McDougall on his new play Sorry I Love You. G’day reader! I’m Brendan and I’m trying to write this play called ‘Sorry I Love...
View Articlequite drunk, very jesus-y by grace de morgan
No rest for the wicked. Two dinner and shows a week apart and we are READY. Our next writer is the wonderful Grace de Morgan, who reflects here on the intersection of faith, politics, and friendship....
View Articlethe puppet regime by georgie harriss
Hi readers! The Puppet Regime (a title I’m growing to hate) started life as a screenplay back in 2015 and has been struggling to find its rhythm ever since. People who read the screenplay agreed that...
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