Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 21 February
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course life-long learners) Texts in the City is a weekly exploration of the classic texts – both old and new – that appear on the VCE English reading lists.
For our brand new season of Texts in the City, we’ve asked schools to nominate which texts on the curriculum they’d most like to see discussed. By presenting speakers who are intimately familiar with each chosen work, as a writer, reviewer, publisher or performer, we’ll offer new perspectives on these classic books, creating the chance to take the obligation out of – and put the joy back into – reading for the VCE.
Sessions run at the student-friendly timeslot of 4.30pm – 5.15pm and are subsequently hosted on the Wheeler Centre website.
This week, we look at Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.
Featuring
Tanya Goldberg
Tanya is co-artistic director of independent theatre company Ride On Theatre. She has directed for stage and screen.
Tanya has directed classic and contemporary theatre works for companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, NIDA WAAPA and Griffin Theatre Company. She recently received a Mike Walsh Fellowship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust Award, and completed the 2010 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and a Dramaturgy Exchange at the Müncher Kammerspiele.
Tanya has directed the short films Great Western (Screen NSW EFF), Heck (Palm Springs International ShortFest 2011) and The Mighty Hand of God and produced Cupid and Pig (Berlinale 2011, Cannes Cinemas des Antipodes 2011).
Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald writes books for kids. He is the author of the bestselling Real Pigeons series and the Hello Twigs series (both illustrated by Ben Wood). Andrew lives in Naarm/Melbourne, where he makes up stories and ...