As production values soar and audiences are becoming more discerning, stage criticism should be enjoying a golden age. Our collection of theatre critics lift the curtain on the contemporary scene to ask what’s wrong with theatre reviewing?
This session will be chaired by Peter Mares.
Alison Croggon is a Melbourne theatre critic, novelist, blogger and poet. She was named “a must-read critic” by the Guardian, along with Pauline Kael, Susan Sontag and James Wood.
Julian Meyrick is a director, theatre historian and deputy chair of PlayWriting Australia. Until recently he was associate director and literary advisor at the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Stephen Sewell has been responsible for some of the most provocative and electrifying Australian plays of the past twenty-five years.
Cameron Woodhead is a senior theatre critic for the Age and is a prolific reviewer of performing arts in Australia.
Peter Mares has been a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for more than 20 years and presents the weekly public policy discussion program the National Interest on ABC Radio National.
This is a free event. Booking recommended.
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