Witness Podcasts

Team Witness gets together for a final podcast yarn about criticism, funding, Australian theatre history, Ibsen, Blak voices, inclusion and exclusion, accessibility, digital theatre, revolution, why we closed and what we loved about making Witness. The post So long and thanks for all the fish appeared first on Witness Performance.

Team Witness gets together for a final podcast yarn about criticism, funding, Australian theatre history, Ibsen, Blak voices, inclusion and exclusion, accessibility, digital theatre, revolution, why we closed and what we loved about making Witness.

Ben Keene talks to Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner from Asia TOPA about the exciting digital innovations forced on the festival by last year's pandemic crisis. The post The Witness Interview: Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner appeared first on Witness Performance.

Ben Keene talks to Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner from Asia TOPA about the exciting digital innovations forced on the festival by last year's pandemic crisis.

Ben Keene talks to theatre maker Daniel Schlusser - a performer, director, dramaturg and thinker who over the past decade has made some of Australia's most groundbreaking theatre

Ben Keene talks to theatre maker Daniel Schlusser - a performer, director, dramaturg and thinker who over the past decade has made some of Australia’s most groundbreaking theatre The post The Witness Interview: Daniel Schlusser appeared first on Witness Performance.

Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meet online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now The post Witness Podcast: Does art matter? appeared first on Witness Performance.

Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meet online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now

Podcast: Ben Keene examines how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this year The post Podcast: Spotlight on BLEED 2020 appeared first on Witness Performance.

Podcast: Ben Keene examines how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this year

Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. 'You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy'

Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. 'You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy' The post The Witness Interview: Candy Bowers appeared first on Witness Performance.

The Witness Interview: In this month's podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia's most important and intriguing theatre makers

The Witness Interview: In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing theatre makers The post The Witness Interview: Nicola Gunn appeared first on Witness Performance.

The Witness Interview: ‘There's something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I've always felt compelled to wrestle with that.' Thomas M Wright talks to Alison Croggon

The Witness Interview: ‘There’s something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I’ve always felt compelled to wrestle with that.’ Thomas M Wright talks to Alison Croggon The post The Witness Interview: Thomas M Wright appeared first on Witness Performance.

Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and advocate, and his passionate and abiding connection to Australian arts.

Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and advocate, and his passionate and abiding connection to Australian arts. The post The Witness Interview: Richard Watts appeared first on Witness Performance.

'When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms' In Part 1 of this super fabulous and candid Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to performance artist Moira Finucane on the development of her unique queer performance art

'When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’ In Part 1 of this super fabulous and candid Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to performance artist Moira Finucane on the development of her unique queer performance art The post The Witness Interview: Moira Finucane Part 1 appeared first on Witness Performance.

The Witness Interview: Moira Finucane, 'the patron saint of magpies', digs into her creative practice in Part 2 of her interview with Ben Keene The post The Witness Interview: Moira Finucane Part 2 appeared first on Witness Performance.

The first Spotlight Podcast, a new series of investigative podcasts produced by Witness sound man Ben Keene, The Bridge explores the remount late last year of The Bridge, Vicki Reynolds' verbatim play about the West Gate Bridge disaster, and how communities deal with trauma, memory and healing The post Witness Spotlight: The Bridge appeared first on Witness Performance.

For our final Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial representation and the early days of blogging. The post The Witness Interview: Ming-Zhu Hii appeared first on Witness Performance.

In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts.  The post The Witness Podcast: Why we need diverse critics appeared first on Witness Performance.

For this month's Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Australian playwright Amelia Roper about making a career in the United States and all things writing, including guineapigs. The post The Witness Interview: Amelia Roper appeared first on Witness Performance.