Episodes
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thomas ES Kelly
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thomas ES Kelly joins Regina Botros to dig into his work SILENCE playing at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Unwrapped season, dedicated to uncovering extraordinary creatives.
SILENCE pulls the Treaty conversation out from under the rug and slams it back on the table. Funny, irreverent and reverberating with power, this is contemporary dance as you haven’t seen it before. This is one not to miss!
Thomas E.S. Kelly is a proud Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu man. He studied at NAISDA Dance College and graduated in 2012. Thomas is an artist that works with multiple art forms which include choreography, dance, theatre, music composition, puppetry and teaching.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Sarah Giles
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Sarah joins Regina to talk about how she has paved her way in as a director and the things that interest her. As well as her latert production No Pay? No Way! on at Sydney Theatre Company.
Sarah Giles is an award-winning opera and theatre director. Described by Limelight Magazine as one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatre-makers, she has a passion for comedy and opera and has directed over 25 productions for companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre of South Australia, Malthouse Theatre, Griffin Theatre, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Chamber Opera, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia and West Australian Opera.
Sarah is a freelance artist, who works as a director, dramaturg and adaptor. She works across Australia and is based in Naarm / Melbourne where she lives with her family.
Sarah received Helpmann Award and Green Room Award nominations for Best Direction of an Opera for her world premiere Victorian Opera production of Lorelei which won Best New Australian work and Best Design at the Green Room Awards where it was nominated in five categories.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Manuel Stark Santos
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Manuel Stark Santos from West Side Story joins Regina Backstage to talk about growing up dancing in the US to making it big on Broadway in New York to landing in Sydney to dance on the Handa Opera Stage. What a treat!
Opera Australia's production opens on the 22nd March, 2024.
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Van Badham
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Van Badham joins Regina Backstage to talk about A Fool In Love for Sydney Theatre Company.
Badham said, “The greatest Australian virtue is our readiness to laugh at ourselves. What an honour it is to let loose the local sense of humour on a classic farce like Lope de Vega’s La dama boba, in which an aspirational scheme to marry off an heiress comes so spectacularly undone.
Van Badham is a writer, critic, trade unionist, feminist, activist and occasional broadcaster, an internationally award-winning theatremaker and one of Australia’s most controversial social commentators.
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Anita Heiss
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Anita Heiss joins Regina to talk about her adaptation of the play TIDDAS - on at Belvoir theatre.
Tiddas- Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books, lovers, and the jagged bits of life in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don’t they?
Dr Anita Heiss AM is a proud member of the Wiradyuri nation of central New South Wales and one of Australia's most prolific and well-known authors publishing across genres including non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction and children's fiction
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Leigh Sachwitz
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Leigh Sachwitz is the founder and leading creative director of flora&faunavisions.
She is an award winning creator and visionary, and the mastermind behind the content that will be displayed across 23 LED screens for Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle.
Her work spans across immersive experiences, exhibitions, music stages, theatre and opera performances, fashion shows and art installations. Leigh has characterised a unique style through design in space and time.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Thomas DeAngelis
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, theatre maker and researcher.
He joins Regina Botros to talk about the operatic odyssey of a lifetime; the site-specific pastiche opera TRACK WORKS will take centre stage at Sydney’s iconic Mortuary Station in all its historical splendour (November 21 – December 19).
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Tom Conroy
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Tom Conroy joins Regina Botros to dive into The Master and the Margarita on at Belvoir Theatre.
Tom’s credits for Belvoir include Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Find out more here.
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Jane joins Regina to talk Malvolia (yes a twist on the role) in Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare.
Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities.
Twelfth Night opens at Sydney Opera House 26th October 2023 until 19 November.
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thomas Campbell and Betty Is a Butcher
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thomas Campbell joins Regina Botros to talk through the inspiration for Betty Is a Butcher for Sydney Fringe.
Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death. A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria
A Siren Theatre Production, directed by Kate Jane Gaul.