Reframing Bennelong
Steve Dow talks with actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison about her new play Bennelong in London.
Steve Dow is the 2020 Walkley Arts Journalism Award recipient for his essay, profile and reportage portfolio. The Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer’s work also appears in The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Meanjin, Art Guide, and Vault.
Steve Dow talks with actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison about her new play Bennelong in London.
British viola virtuoso Lawrence Power chats with Steve Dow about Isles of Light, the concert he has programmed, directs and performs in for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and why he believes there’s such a strong viola tradition in the British Isles.
Hot on the heels of this month’s Remix Tour Live, Suzy Izzard is bringing her one-woman version of Shakespeare’s tragedy to Australia.
First Nations musician Eric Avery tells us why he has asked the Flinders Quartet to use stringybark as part of his new work.
Director Neil Armfield tells Steve Dow why his production of Cinderella for State Opera South Australia will have a 1970s twist.
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As her play Lacrima comes to Australia, writer/director Caroline Guiela Nguyen talks about why she likes interweaving different narratives.
As she prepares to perform in her own adaptation of The Shiralee for Sydney Theatre Company, Kate Mulvany discusses her life and work.
Small companies are “vital” to Australia’s arts ecology, given “so much opera is being dictated by finances” higher up the chain, says soprano Celeste Lazarenko.
Alexander Berlage chats with Steve Dow about his current projects – the Australian premiere of a musical and the world premiere of a new Sydney Chamber Opera work.
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