The Living Room Theatre

The Living Room Theatre belong to a community of those seeking justice. We are committed to… Read more

EoFY Campaign – Fever Dreams

Fever Dreams with The Living Room Theatre   Support the fevered performances and artistic dreamers of… Read more

film // the foul of the air

“how easily we become immune to the mistreatment of others, especially women, without being over didactic”… Read more

Meet Céline Thompson | Chairperson

You met Michelle St Anne at a local pub sparring about the Australian Open. If Rafa and… Read more

Introducing Ira Ferris | Associate Artist

Multi-disciplinary artist Ira Ferris joins LRT as an Associate Artist. Ira’s experience is broad covering a wide… Read more

Ensemble in Residence Profile: Microfiche

This week’s article from the ‘Living Room conversations’ series features an with LRT collaborator Phillippa Murphy-Haste… Read more

Re-scripting Trauma in Contemporary Theatre

LRT’s Michelle St Anne shares how processes of ‘re-scripting’ Autobiographical Memory and Trauma Memory… Read more

Slight hand of Mentorship

Making space for curiosity in art making – ruminations on working outside one’s genre… Read more

WELCOME / MARIE PAPAS

The Living Room Theatre welcomes Marie Papas as our Senior Brand and Marketing Strategist… Read more

Translating past hurts: A reflection on The Reckoning

Upcoming LRT intern Iris Higginbotham recalls her experience of witnessing Michelle St Anne’s . The Reckoning’ –… Read more

Voicing LRT / Eloise Fetterplace

This week we speak to long-time supporter of LRT, Eloise Fetterplace, about the “voice” of a small… Read more

Reckoning with food violence

Scholar-in-residence Professor Alana Mann, gives us a snapshot of her work on food and violence.  … Read more

Rhythmic Spaces

Michelle talks about her experiences from her residency at The Lock-Up in Newcastle; an 1800s police… Read more

The Possibilities of Jacques Emery

This week’s article from the ‘Living Room conversations’ series features conversations between Michelle St Anne and… Read more

In conversation / Anastasia Mortimer

This week we launch the ‘Living Room conversations’ series which will feature intimate conversations between Michelle St… Read more

EOFY 2022 Dream Wildly

HELP US SUPPORT AND MENTOR AMBITIOUS, IMAGINATIVE ARTISTS!   We have been dreaming …… Read more

Discovering a home / Imogen Cranna

Multi-skilled Imogen Cranna reflects on her decade long collaboration with LRT and what this has meant… Read more

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / THE LOCK-UP

MICHELLE ST ANNE WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN AN ARTIST RESIDENCY FOR THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF… Read more

The Black Summer & Time, Grief, Memory, Value

‘Dark Interludes’ is dedicated to the many named and unnamed A woman face down, body askew… Read more

the foul of the air

Commentary Charlotte Wood, author The Natural Way of Things “a wild, hallucinatory, vivid and astonishing… Read more

Requiem for A Black Summer

Michelle reflects on her work ‘Myosotis’ – her requiem, she challenges the notion of home as… Read more

Ghostly Landscapes: Reflecting on Sunlit Noir and the Australian Gothic

Mark Bosch explores the concept of the Australian Gothic as more than an aesthetic; instead, as… Read more

Sites of Violence / Collision and Composition

Illuminating landscapes of violence in plain sight, Michelle St Anne traces the threads of home, solastagia… Read more

Sites of Violence / Threads of Home and Compositional Thinking

Illuminating landscapes of violence in plain sight, theatre director Michelle St Anne traces the threads… Read more

The three ghost writers #1

The Living Room Theatre is now inhabited by 3 extraordinary women who are taking over our… Read more

The ghost light campaign

2020 marks 20 years of The Living Room Theatre! In this time we’ve created countless sensory-rich… Read more

‘Birdsong at Dusk’ – a Creative Director’s notes

LRT’s Artistic Director, Michelle St Anne gives us an insight into her creative rationale for the… Read more

LRT welcomes Krissoulla Borg

Krissoulla Borg joins the LRT board as treasurer, bringing with her years of accounting, financial and… Read more

Female Artistic Directors / Lone but not alone

This Thursday 7 November, Ensemble Offspring returns to Carriageworks for the second instalment of… Read more

Sites of Violence

Sites of Violence is a Research Project undertaken at the Sydney Environment Institute The Sites… Read more

On the cusp at Gunyah

Our Artistic Director Michelle St Anne refelcts on her residency at Gunyah Gunyah artists-in-residence program provides… Read more

Looking Back to Look Forward

Speaking with LRT’s new chair Helen Johnston about the shifts in NSW’s cultural scene, diversifying the… Read more

Traumascapes

Who’s been sleeping in my bed? Cheap motel rooms and transgression Carolyn McKay with… Read more

The mirror of ‘composing self’.

This year in the lead up to our 20th birthday I am reflecting on where I… Read more

Are you our new number cruncher?

Treasurer Treasurer Opportunity – Pro Bono (30hrs per annum) Board position with Dynamic team Not for… Read more

Stifters Dinge :: the strange sounds of the Anthropocene

A little background to one of the influences behind ‘The foul of the air’. Many composers,… Read more

Pre-birthday drinks

In 2020, The Living Room Theatre will be 20. On the eve of this exciting milestone,… Read more

Femaleness

‘“Femaleness”; a wretched, illusory femaleness, a femaleness which is not one, because it is only ever… Read more

Representing Heat through performance

This magazine illustrates a unique collaboration organised by the Sydney Environment Institute – one between a broadly interdisciplinary set… Read more

Image has its own sound

The ‘Anastasia Project’ allowed me a certain joy that I have not had access to for… Read more

Lola Stayed Too Long: Dancing with An Elephant

Lola Stayed Too Long: Dancing with An Elephant An Australian Summer is unforgettably unique. It’s hot. Read more

Environment in Practice: Artmaking through Crisis

The is article was originally  posted by College Art Association of America  — May 10,… Read more

The truth behind Lola

By David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific David Ritter reports on the heat wave event… Read more

Performing Climate Change

By David Roesner, Professor for Theatre and Music Theatre, LMU Munich When Michelle St Anne approached… Read more

We are hiring!!

Join our family… Are you a party planner? Do you like people? GREAT! Cause… Read more