This three-part series explores the research and ideas that inspired Black Crows Invaded Our Country, a collaboration between The Living Room Theatre, the Sydney Environment Institute, and the City of Sydney. In Part 2 of our series, Black Crows creator Michelle St Anne discusses how environmental philosopher Thom van Dooren’s research on house crows became […]
Author: Living Room Theatre
Behind the Curtain – 1
This three-part series explores the research and ideas that inspired Black Crows Invaded Our Country, a collaboration between The Living Room Theatre, the Sydney Environment Institute, and the City of Sydney. In Part 1, environmental philosopher Thom van Dooren shares his work on human–crow relationships and reflects on seeing it reimagined through performance, story, and […]
How do we communicate our academic work to the broader public?
The idea is to rethink, recontextualise, and rediscover the usual academic lecture.
Architect of an unstable mind
“The decisions she makes about how spaces and buildings are used are breathtaking, and often deeply unfashionable”.
Introducing Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Earth Hour’s Storyteller Leah is a doctoral student in history at the University of Sydney where her research focuses on Torres Strait Islander relationships and engagements with the marine environment and the Islander-turtle relationship. Leah also holds graduate qualifications in material anthropology and human geography. She has undertaken research on material culture and eastern Torres Strait tombstone ceremonies, Islander […]
5 minutes with Luke Craven
It is my hope that the performance creates an insight into the fragility of our own safety and the humanity we find in times of great threat.
They come for them at night
MEDIA RELEASEThey Come for Them at NightIn collaboration with the Sydney Environment Institute We are pleased to present a showing of the work-in-development They Come for Them at Night, a multidisciplinary exploration of home—its comforts, its nourishment, and the inevitable act of leaving or being left behind. In this work, audiences are invited to tumble […]
LRT Wins 2013 IDEA Award
MEDIA RELEASEI Love Todd Sampson – Event Category Win We are thrilled to announce that last Friday in Melbourne, The Living Room Theatre’s I Love Todd Sampson—a bold director/designer collaboration—was awarded the IDEA 2013 Award in the Events category. The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is Australia’s largest and most prestigious independent design awards program. […]
Broadsheet
This multidisciplinary theatre work is revolutionising how theatre makers combine architecture, installation art, light, music, film and performance.
Sydney Arts Guide
To detail what happens over the following 80 minutes or so would spoil the experience, which is what this play most enthrallingly is.