Vote for 'Quit Together' or another favourite QuitFlicks entry here! Voting ends 5pm 2nd of Feb 2020.
Raw and real. Follow eight young people as they try to find hope and their sense of self in the face of adversity. Tickets available now.
Award-winning Canberra-based author and playwright Maura Pierlot fashions a riveting set of eight dramatic, interrelated stories about mental health voiced by young people chipping away at the stigma that prevents many people from seeking help. Returning to The Street director Shelly Higgs leads an exciting ensemble of next-gen Canberra actors in this beautifully realised exploration of connectedness. Theatre that will make you think and get you talking.
The ANU Theatre Awards is a celebration of all things theatre from the year that has been.
You are invited to attend the awards on Friday the 18th of October 7pm - 11pm at Psychedeli.
There will be a bar tab and canapes provided (note: this is not a full dinner!), along with award presentations, DJ, photo booth, performances and more!
Article by Jessica Conway.
The Street Theatre’s upcoming production Fragments is set to be a powerful and emotive show fuelled by Canberra’s next generation of actors. The insightful script is the latest offering from local author and playwright Maura Pierlot, with eight intertwining stories giving a voice to struggles that can be so personal, yet somehow universal.
A four-day intensive workshop for 13-17 year olds who are eager to make their own theatre on their own terms.
Are you a culturally diverse creative, arts worker, performer, writer, director or artist of any art form?
Join us for a free workshop series to imagine a future where cultural diversity is present at every level in the arts!
Photos, videos, audio clips, physical attributes and credits & experience of Linda Chen - Actor, Extra and Model based in ACT, Australia
The results of the 2019 Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) Keep the Vibe Alive film competition are in – it’s a draw between Fuming created by Sam McGowan and The Third Wheel by Millie Hayes!
The Third Wheel by Millie Hayes is one of the finalists in Quit Victoria and MQFF's Keep the Vibe Alive competition. Voting is open from 18 January to 5 February!
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon take endurance theatre to cinema, with a film that quotes dialogue from hundreds of others in a quest to redefine femininity.
'...the fact that it was clearly taken as a single shot, together with the intensity of the performances, makes it unexpectedly absorbing... it is worth giving the work time, because in the end we see how this too is a reflection on human life in the age of media.'
Christopher Allen examines recent exhibitions including The Theatre is Lying as a response to relations with the internet and modern media.
Review: Theatre is Lying, ACCA, Melbourne.
Through animation, video, light and sound, Theatre is Lying exposes how visual art, performance and theatrical devices can interrogate what is real and what is not.
'The 90-minute video by Anna Breckon and Nat Randall at ACCA called Rear View stretches time and patience in the same way that confinement in a car induces fatigue... the film is gripping because you wonder if something is about to happen in the strange intimacy you're witnessing.'
A new show at ACCA explores what's real and what's not.
'...This 90-minute durational performance work riffs on the history of cinema and the road movie. Randall and co-star Linda Chen are captured, frozen in a convertible that appears to be in perpetual transit.'
In The Theatre Is Lying, curated by Max Delany and Annika Kristensen for ACCA, artists interrogate the meaning of theatre and performance.
15 December 2018 - 24 March 2019
ACCA is pleased to present the inaugural Macfarlane Commissions, a new multi-year partnership designed to support the production and presentation of ambitious new projects by contemporary artists. The Theatre is Lying is the first in this series of exhibitions. Click through for more details.