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Team Witness gets together for a final podcast yarn about criticism, funding, Australian theatre history, Ibsen, Blak voices, inclusion and exclusion, accessibility, digital theatre, revolution, why we closed and what we loved about making Witness.
Ben Keene talks to Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner from Asia TOPA about the exciting digital innovations forced on the festival by last year's pandemic crisis.
Ben Keene talks to theatre maker Daniel Schlusser - a performer, director, dramaturg and thinker who over the past decade has made some of Australia’s most groundbreaking theatre
Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meet online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now
Podcast: Ben Keene examines how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this year
Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. 'You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy'
The Witness Interview: In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing theatre makers
The Witness Interview: ‘There’s something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I’ve always felt compelled to wrestle with that.’ Thomas M Wright talks to Alison Croggon
Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and advocate, and his passionate and abiding connection to Australian arts.
'When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’ In Part 1 of this super fabulous and candid Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to performance artist Moira Finucane on the development of her unique queer performance art
The Witness Interview: Moira Finucane, 'the patron saint of magpies', digs into her creative practice in Part 2 of her interview with Ben Keene
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The first Spotlight Podcast, a new series of investigative podcasts produced by Witness sound man Ben Keene, The Bridge explores the remount late last year of The Bridge, Vicki Reynolds' verbatim play about the West Gate Bridge disaster, and how communities deal with trauma, memory and healing
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For our final Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial representation and the early days of blogging.
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In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts.
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For this month's Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Australian playwright Amelia Roper about making a career in the United States and all things writing, including guineapigs.
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Is there a new energy sweeping through our theatres? For this month's Witness Podcast, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look back on what they've seen since Witness launched in March.
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In this month's podcast, actor, director, teacher and dramaturge Melanie Beddie looks back over a lifetime working in theatre as a independent artist, dramaturge and advocate.
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The Witness Interview: Alison Croggon talks to choreographer Lucy Guerin, artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, about her early career and the profound importance of community to an artform like dance
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In this month's Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage conversations about the problems we face in our community, such as the revelations around #MeToo?
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On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls to be banned.
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