About to hit the big 3-0, Melbourne Playback Theatre is an interactive theatre company that’s somewhat of an institution in Melbourne.
Any emerging artist will tell you it is difficult to break into the Arts industry, yet from what we heard at the panel discussion How Does Your Arts career Grow?, it doesn’t get any easier.
Murray-Smith is often described as being a middle-class playwright; her characters are not usually struggling for money or external status. This charge she answers by saying that human beings everywhere are a mass of contradictions.
I’ve rarely been quite as intimidated by the prospect of an interview as I was by the possibility of speaking with David Harrington. Violinist and founding member of the Kronos Quartet, Harrington’s musical legacy is simply so massive as to dwarf the imagination.
When playwright Jessica Blank travelled to Jordan in 2008, to gather the material for documentary theatre piece Aftermath, she was understandably a little nervous.
