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Backstage - Unchback of Notre Dame - 03-08-2022

The bells... The bells... Our Musical of the Week is the timeless story of Quasimodo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame – developed from the Disney animated film into a very successful musical production. It's also a favourite of one of our studio guests this week. Kate Martin-Booker (Mel's wife) loves …

123. The Cup | Things I Know To Be True (Mirvish)

Welcome back to the 122nd episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prop…

Andrew Bovell comes home

Andrew Bovell is one of Australia's most esteemed playwrights. His recent play Things I Know to Be True has been staged around the world, but in many ways its spiritual home is Western Australia where Andrew grew up. It was the place he was drawn back to when writing the script. Also, playwright Jo…

Power and ethics in playwriting

At this year's Australian Playwrights' Festival, writers gathered to interrogate some of the most challenging questions facing theatre-makers today. We hear two panels from the festival about the craft and responsibilities of writers telling other people's stories. Panellists: Tommy Murphy, Angela …

Kylie Bracknell and Mark Howett — Leading lights of the West

We meet an artist whose canvas has been some of the world's biggest stages, but his palette is ever-inspired by Noongar Boodjar. For our next conversation between Australian stage icons, Kylie Bracknell sits down with designer and director Mark Howett. Also, as part of our High School Playlist seri…

Anthem reunites our biggest playwrights and new work from Back to Back

21 years after Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela reunite for Anthem at the Melbourne Festival, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre shines a light on the shadows of prejudice, and we me…

Belvoir dominates the Helpmanns and Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda: the opera

Productions from Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre have dominated this year's Helpmann Awards with big wins for Counting and Cracking and Barbara and the Camp Dogs, Peter Carey's Booker Prize and Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda comes alive in a new opera, Playwriting Australia board …

Carissa Lee Talks About Navigating Barriers in the Australian Arts System in This Interview

Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer whose work spans from critical analysis, to theatre, to the new ABC Kids series, Planet Lulin, where she plays Principal Cruz. Carissa's critical work has appeared in publications like Kill Your Darlings, IndigenousX, and Witness Performance, where her writ…

Andrew Bovell and David Finnigan on Writing the Climate Crisis

In the age of the Anthropocene, Australian playwrights are finding ways to challenge audiences and portray a rapidly changing world. In this episode, playwrights David Finnigan and Andrew Bovell discuss questions including, how should humans deal with despair, melancholy, and uncertainty in the fac…

Friday Family Film Night: STRICTLY BALLROOM review

In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing STRICTLY BALLROOM (1992), from a script by Baz Luhrmann, Andrew Bovell and Craig Pearce, the film is directed by Baz Luhrmann.   An ambitious young competitive dancer named Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) shocks the rigid ballroom dancing establi…