Andrea James: on collaboration, First Nations‘ storytelling and Sunshine Super Girl
In this episode, Caitlin spoke with playwright, director and dramaturg, Andrea James. Andrea is a Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai woman who is dedicated to ...
Not in Print: playwrights off script - on inspiration, process and theatre itself
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Currency Press believes in theatre that raises more questions than answers, so we’re talking to Australian playwrights about their work, getting insights straight from the source
'The law of sexual assault spins on the wrong axis': Suzie Miller on her play, Prima Facie
"Five years at law school, eleven years of practice, I have always believed. Now I need to know that I was not mistaken." --- In this episode we spoke...
Fangirling over FANGIRLS with Yve Blake
"Tease us and hate us / but don't underestimate us..." This month we spoke with Yve Blake, playwright, screenwriter and composer, and the creator of...
'Counting and Cracking': in conversation with S. Shakthidharan
‘In Tamil we don’t say goodbye. Only, I will go and come back.’‘நாங்கள் விடைபெறேக்க, ‘போயிட்டு வாறன்’ எண்டு மட்டும் தான் தமிழில சொல்லுறனாங்கள்.’ In th...
'For We The Young': Finegan Kruckemeyer on writing plays for children and young people
To re-launch Not in Print, we spoke with Finegan Kruckemeyer about magical worlds where monsters are friends and lighthouses are boats, and on the ric...
War Crimes: How do you win the battle inside your head? l Award-winning Australian theatre
A powerful story of five disenfranchised young women who are fighting for respect, railing against authority and struggling to form an identity in a s...
A Town Named War Boy
"We hit Cairo like a train!... Every dirty little alley, every dusty back room bar. The pyramids are marvellous, but I could spend the rest of my days...
An Ever Changing Idiom - Alana Valentine's response to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, by Ray Lawler
Alana Valentine reads her response to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler. It’s called An Ever-Changing Idiom and features in the Currency Pr...
Introduction to Brumby Innes and Bid Me to Love - Ric Throssel
Alana Valentine—one of Australia’s most renowned and respected playwrights, whose work includes Parramatta Girls, Eyes to the Floor, Shafana and Aunt ...
Norm & Ahmed: Race prejudice is a profoundly irrational force l Australian theatre classics
In Norm and Ahmed a rather ocker, white Australian male encounters a well-mannered Pakistani student with revolutionary ambitions on a Sydney street a...