Belvoir St Theatre's Artistic Director Eamon Flack on telling the stories and imagining the realities of climate change.
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A brand new Belvoir production of An Enemy of the People reunites the team behind critically-acclaimed hits Medea and Jasper Jones, director聽Anne-Louise Sarks and the superb Kate Mulvany, in a timely new version of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen鈥檚 prophetic masterpiece from the late 19th century.
Apocalyptic futures are common plot lines these days, but few as starling as this one. It has all of the big-ticket items like global warming and alien invasion, but with the added element of passionate and physical acting.
Serenading Adela: A Street Opera is a major new community theatre event now in rehearsal.
It celebrates a colourful protest on January 7, 1918, when, on a hot summer night during World War I, supporters of British-born suffragette and anti-war militant Adela Pankhurst gathered outside the bluestone walls of the Women鈥檚 Prison at Pentridge in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg.
Fearless Milk Crate Theatre Carriageworks, Sydney September 13-22 $35, $25 www.milkcratetheatre.com Milk Crate Theatre director Mirra Todd says his main goal is to get people thinking and talking about homelessness. 鈥淎ll theatre is about starting a conversation,鈥 the wiry, animated Todd tells 91自拍论坛 at Milk Crate鈥檚 rehearsal rooms in Sydney鈥檚 Kings Cross.