Author: Living Room Theatre

Threads of Home and Compositional Thinking

What if your home is not a building but a landscape? A river, a coastline, bush, forest, an ice field or desert.

Dusk traditionally presents a romantic palette, but given the current firestorms we are forced to confront a new kind of palette.

I have to say I have relished the autonomy and singularity of vision that being solo artistic director affords me.

Themes of despair, the desire for something better, the suffering of everyday life

Where the women become the non-human – the rivers, the coastlines, the Australian bush, an endangered species.

Abuse not experienced by many, but by all accounts, too many.

What we might most broadly call theatre “animateurs” have been exceeding the limits of traditional dramaturgy since at least the late 60s

Violence is what I know. I know its sounds, smells and sights. I understand its complexities.

Over the next year we may start to see a positive shift to a more inclusive and diverse cultural ecology

The all-too-ordinary tendency to use the passive voice when reporting on physical and sexual violence