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Wesley Enoch's Summer Reading

Internationally acclaimed playwright and director, Chair of Creative Australia and a Professor of Indigenous Practice at Queensland University of Technology Wesley Enoch, shares his Summer reading list with Barbara Miller.Currently reading: Flesh - David Szalay (Booker Prize winner, 2025) Summer l…

Medea in Exile

During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Australian audiences encountered Greek tragedy in mainstage theatres in domesticated adaptations more than in any other format. Medea was a popular source text, whether in Wesley Enoch's adaptation, which collides Euripides' and Seneca's mat…

New play reimagines Australian history from Aboriginal viewpoint

Jan. 26 is Australia Day, a national holiday that commemorates the 1788 landing of England’s first fleet off Sydney Harbor, when they raised the Union flag. Over the years, Australia Day and its celebration of colonialism have been — to say the least — a complicated one, particularly for the Indige…

Virginia Gay, Paul Capsis, Wesley Enoch - When Things Go Wrong (Currency Press Festival of Playwrights 2025)

Recorded at the Currency Press Festival of Playwrights 2025   WHEN THINGS GO WRONG: A series of anecdotes about mishaps large and small, and the necessity of fixing things on the run. It may sound superficial, but it speaks to theatre's intrinsic need for adaptability, resilience, and energy.   …

Eamon Flack, Wesley Enoch, Virginia Gay, Damien Ryan - Adapting for the Stage (Currency Press Festival of Playwrights 2025)

Recorded at the Currency Press Festival of Playwrights 2025   ADAPTING FOR THE STAGE: What makes the classics so tempting to reimagine? And how do playwrights manage the balancing act of putting their own stamp on it while remaining faithful to the spirit of the original? Join the brave playwrigh…

STAGES Episode 608: ZINDZI OKENYO

Zindzi Okenyo is a dynamic African Australian actor, director and singer.  After graduating from NIDA in 2006, Zindzi was a member of Cate Blanchett’s Residents Company at Sydney Theatre Company for three years. In 2012 Zindzi toured Europe and the USA with A History of Everything and began as a mu…

Remembering the Blak diggers

As a warning, this episode of Awaye contains the names and voices of people who have died. Kabi Kabi and Gurang Gurang man, Pastor Ray Minniecon shares how he helped found the Coloured Digger Project 20 years ago, to bring national respect and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ve…

Stan Grant: examining the importance of listening, of silence

his week on Speaking we feature a conversation between two Inspiring voices. Emeritus Professor and writer Stan Grant sits down with Professor and playwright Wesley Enoch to discuss his new book When Words Fail Us, Truth Beyond Time. Exploring how listening to each other's philosophies and ideas ca…

Wesley Enoch on the living library of landscape and First Nations memory

Today’s guest is Wesley Enoch, who is proud Quandamooka man, a celebrated playwright and artistic director whose deep cultural and artistic leadership has shaped Australian theatre and storytelling for more than three decades. Wesley is the author of a new essay, 'In Search of the Living Library’, …

Reflecting on The Sapphires with Welsey Enoch

Quandamooka playwright and director Wesley Enoch reminisces on directing the stage debut of The Sapphires. He also chats about why he's returning to direct the show 20 years later, this time to work with a brand new cast.  You can watch The Sapphires at the Billie Brown Theatre in Brisbane. For inf…