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Theatre
Marta Dusseldorp and Ben Winspear: the thespians who want to reboot Tasmania
Nearly a decade after MONA opened and two years after they left Sydney for Hobart, actors Marta Dusseldorp and Ben Winspear are hell-bent on kick-starting phase two of Tasmania’s creative-led recovery.
- by Gabriella Coslovich
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Performing arts
The COVID-19 chat show that digs deep with big names
Eddie Perfect performing a poignant hymn to the Yarra might be just the morale-boost Melbourne needs right now.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Sydney Festival
Smaller Sydney Festival will go ahead with more local flavour
Sydney Festival will go ahead in January but it will be downsized by two-thirds and will feature local artists almost exclusively.
- by Nick Galvin
Melbourne radio
Radio drama re-imagined for Victorian festival
Radio drama is seeing a rebirth and the pandemic-hit Victorian Seniors Festival has joined the party.
- by Nick Miller
Sydney Theatre Company
Kate Mulvany wins Australia's only prize for women stage and screenwriters
The playwright in part owes her 25-year career to a light-fingered thief who stole her draft of a novel.
- by Linda Morris
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'Anything that says celebrity, I ain’t': Lunch with Hugo Weaving
He's one of Australia's most successful – and intimidating – actors, but Hugo Weaving says he's just a dag who likes to watch MasterChef.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Review
A Room of One's Own review: Locked up, beaten and flung about the room
Belvoir relaunched its 2020 season with a gripping presentation of Virginia Woolf's 1929 polemic against patriarchy.
- by John Shand
Sydney Theatre Company
STC returns with Wonnangatta, but play's writer home on the range
In the age of socially distanced theatre, playwright Angus Cerini is about as far from a stage as you can get: on his garlic farm in the Strathbogie Ranges.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Arts
Rockie punches out masks during circus shutdown
Circus Oz performer Rockie Stone decided to try to make "the perfect mask". And they're selling fast.
- by Mikey Cahill
Review
It’ll draw the blood from your veins: Dracula marks spectacular return to stage
Dracula sunk its teeth into the hearts of the audience on opening night, with the innovative and contemporary ballet being one of the first major performances coming back to the Perth arts scene.
- by Adam Di Tullio
Arts
Melbourne playwright Aidan Fennessy dies aged 53
Fennessy was a talented writer, actor and director whose most recent critically acclaimed play The Architect looked at terminal illness.
- by Nick Miller