To gothicise is to turn towards these conditions and resonances, to tend to rather than shy away from the odorous wounds of history. Festering in the hot Australian sun, their continuous, gaping presence demands it.

rituals helped me shroud this new work in the layers of grief that is resistant to the flows of time.

Caught within both the theatrical and the academic worlds, I have long been fascinated with the public lecture – its rhythm, its timbre and the frequency of facts

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.

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

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

The ‘elephant in the room’, the reality of increasing climate change and its impacts, became the recurring theme and image – prompting reflection and engagement.

The value of the academy (to the arts) is the depth of research, breadth of stimulus and variety of viewpoints around a certain topic.