Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and…
Adam Zwar directs a reading of the classic American film, presented in a distinctly Australian accent.Twelve actors will inhabit the roles of twelve unnamed jurors (a cross-section of society…
The courtroom: the ultimate arena for dramatising issues of justice and morality, and a stage where the most admirable and most despicable elements of human nature are performed in equal measure…
Adam Zwar, creator of Wilfred and Lowdown, will direct a dramatic live reading of the classic film 12 Angry Men for the Wheeler Centre this month. We spoke to Adam in advance of the event about the…
This video contains some strong language.The annual Foxtel Screenwriter’s Address, presented by the Australian Writers’ Foundation, recognises the ways in which writers shape our society and…
Hannie Rayson is a playwright and screenwriter best known for Hotel Sorrento, which was also produced as a feature film. She made history when her play Life After George was the first play to be…
In this instalment of Texts in the City, we look at Hannie Rayson’s Two Brothers. Host Ruby Murray and guest speaker Stephen Armstrong examine the text’s themes of political and social justice…
Dava Sobel
Video · Thu, 17 May 2012
Dava Sobel is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. In this appearance, she speaks with ABC Radio National’s R…
In this session of Texts in the City, Andrew McDonald is joined by Josh Nelson to discuss Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. (For dedicated students, Tony Wilson and Hannie Rayson…
In this major new weekly series hosted by Ramona Koval, running in parallel with the university calendar, contemporary writers speak on seminal Australian texts, giving context, sharing their…
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Australian Writers’ Guild, a major State of the Industry Address will be presented by David Williamson AO, president of the AWG and Australia’s most…
This year, PEN Melbourne’s annual International Women’s Day event features a conversation with the playwright Tracey Rigney, a Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman from Victoria and South Australia…
This year, PEN Melbourne’s annual International Women’s Day event features a conversation with the playwright Tracey Rigney, a Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman from Victoria and South Australia…
What are the challenges and new possibilities of writing for radio in the digital age? Online listening means that local networks are now portals to the world. Is this a boom or a bust for the local …
The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) has taken responsibility for what a Scottish national theatre might be through innovative programming and having no building. They tour extensively across…
What makes a work travel? What role can cultural agencies play in ‘internationalising’ a writer and their work? How can companies work internationally? And how can writers get heard overseas?Another …
Writers and theatre-makers may take a unique approach to the world evoked in their works but all can’t help but let the world around them seep into the pores, the cracks, the architecture, the…
Ship Happens
Dailies · Tue, 17 Jan 2012
When Captain Cat beseeched his deceased lover Rosie Probert to “let me shipwreck in your thighs” in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, we truly doubt he meant anything resembling the fate of the Costa…
The radio play may have fallen on hard times, but interest in the form hasn’t disappeared altogether. Perhaps that’s because some writers are excited by the potential of a drama delivered entirely…
Between the academy and the marketplace, how well do we look after our playwrights, and what is the health of our theatre community? Raimondo Cortese, Hannie Rayson, Lally Katz and Jenny Kemp…
In this instalment of Texts in the City, Hannie Rayson and Tony Wilson turn their eye to A Streetcar Named Desire — the classic play by Tennessee Williams.Want more? See our 2012 Texts in the City…
William Shakespeare’s classic play Richard III features in this session of Texts in the City, hosted by Tony Wilson in conversation with Judith Rodriguez and Michael Williams.They discuss the text’s …
Drama Queens
Event · Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Why do we see so few plays by Australian women?Something, somewhere, in Australian theatre is not working. Are female playwrights not out there, or are they being denied opportunities? And if there i…
Drama Queens
Video · Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Why do we see so few plays by Australian women?Playwrights Patricia Cornelius and Van Badham, Artistic Directors Marion Potts and Ralph Myers and moderator Chris Mead discuss contemporary Australian …
Twenty years to the day since Nicolae Ceauşescu's communist regime was overthrown in Romania, a revolutionary figure of another type is celebrating an anniversary.It is 100 years since the birth of p…
Professor Tim Flannery at the Copenhagen Climate Conference
