2018 Philip Parsons Lecture

2018 Philip Parsons Lecture

In this year’s Phillip Parsons lecture, award-winning playwright Alana Valentine reflects on her experience of bringing into the theatre the lived experience of diverse, community, regional and local audiences to hear their own stories in the context of the...
My Beautiful Man

My Beautiful Man

On December 15, 2014 eighteen people were taken hostage in the Lindt Café in Sydney’s Martin Place. After a sixteen-hour standoff, a single gunshot was heard and police stormed the café. Tragically Tori Johnson, the heroic Lindt Café manager, lost his life that day,...
Glassy Eyed

Glassy Eyed

Inspired by Wagga Waggas astounding art glass collection, this is a series of monologues in which human nature is refracted through the many metaphorical aspects of glass. A man contemplates what he does not know of his mother as he holds one of her frosted glass...