Adelaide Festival
In The Second Woman, theatremakers Anna Breckon and Nat Randall use an alarmingly simple conceit and a 24-hour duration to reveal the knotty, entrenched and complex nature of gender relations in Australia.
Adelaide Festival
Many Australians manage to hold the reality of life in Australia’s offshore detention centres at arm’s length, but Iranian theatre director Nazanin Sahamizadeh will bring it home with force when her play Manus makes its Australian Premiere at the Adelaide Festival.
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Celebrated Indian author Devdutt Pattanaik brings his famous modern applications of ancient mythology to the stage at OzAsia this week and, tucked in amidst his advice on business and leadership, is an approach to argument and ideology that could be just the balm the Twitter generation requires.
A dance work enabling deep cross-cultural connection that was created by someone who went on to collaborate with Beyoncé – Sutra is relevant, insightful, and emblematic of all the things OzAsia Festival should be, writes Farrin Foster.
Originating in China, the theatre/installation work Here Is The Message You Asked For… Don’t Tell Anyone Else pushes its audience to consider the importance and complexity of online escape.
In just a year and a half, Surahn and Jessica Sidhu have transformed the soil of the old almond orchard in Willunga they now call home. But the change is nothing compared to the 300-year agricultural revolution they’re planning for the property.
The director of not one but two Adelaide festivals, Amanda Duthie has risen to the top of Australia’s arts scene by constantly investing in those who are just starting out at the bottom.
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