Backstage

Annalouise Paul

Annalousie Paul joins Regina Botros in this episode to talk about her experiences as a flamenco dancer; how she came to it, the stories she tells and the new @Salon Flamenco series she is curating for Sydney World Pride.

 

Tickets and general info for

https://prideamplified.au/events/salon-flamenco/

Facebook event page with full program details

https://www.facebook.com/events/654379352729685

 

Photo credit: Binu Photography

 

Lewis Treston

Lewis talks with Regina Botros about his play Hubris and Humiliation - on at Sydney Theatre Company at the moment.

Lewis is an AWARD Winning playwright and

In this Sydney world pride (and prejudice ) production…think

Jane Austen’s drawing rooms and country estates are switched out for the dizzying dancefloors and leafy avenues of post-plebiscite Sydney---is what it says online

Lewis is a former STC Patrick white award winner.

This production is

Presented in association with Sydney WorldPride and directed by Dean Bryant (Fun Home), this modern homage to the celebrated, nineteenth century English novelist – which had a development at STC as part of the Rough Draft program (2021) and won the 2021 Australian Theatre Festival New Play Award in New York – is a high-camp exploration of love, family and commitment topped off with a twist of Regency period charm.

Blair Cutting and David Hooley - In A Little Room

Actors Blair and David talk to Regina about the life and times Queen Elizabeth I's reign in 1593. Double agent, spy and famous playwright, Christopher Marlowe has been called to a lodging house in Deptford on the Thames to answer to his secret double dealings...In a Little Room written by David Allen.

A deep dive into the much speculated happenings on that fateful night and a knife fight. Listen in to a very informative chat about the times of this play's history and what may have happened...

 

Rachel Healy

Rachel Healy joins Regina Botros Backstage.

Rachel is the Interim Director of The Pavilion Arts Centre, Sutherland, which has just opened with its first show, Bangarra’s ---Waru.

Rachel has been working in the arts and cultural sector for more than twenty years including Director of Performing Arts for Sydney Opera House and ten years as General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre. Adelaide festival and so much more.

We delve into the new space and what theatre looks like after a pandemic.

Melanie Tait talks A Broadcast Coup

Trisha Starrs talks with Melanie about her new work.

Ensemble Theatre is thrilled to stage the long-awaited world premiere of writer and broadcaster,
Melanie Tait’s (The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race) thought-provoking, sharp comedy, A BROADCAST
COUP, from 26th January to 4th March 2023.
A major highlight of the 2023 Sydney Festival, A BROADCAST COUP incisively delves into the abuse of power and lack of accountability from controversial public figures.
Cut-throat journalist Jez Connell is out for her next sting. It’s been a year since she brought down one of TV’s most lauded stars for behaving badly and now she’s got Michael King, the top-rated darling of public radio, in her sights. This time, it’s personal.
With the loyalty of his longstanding radio show producer wavering, and a charting ex-media podcaster eager to take the mic off Mike, has the plug been pulled on Michael King’s career?

Sydney Festival Show 11th January 2023

Sydney Festival fills our Backstage podcast this week.

 

Tracker with Artistic Director of ADT -Daniel Riley.

Neighbours with Albanian contemporary dancer, and choreographer Brigel Gjoka. 

Werk It with  fierce-as-hell director Malia Walsh.

Antarctica composer Mary Finisterer.

S Shakthidharan

Shakthi joins Regina to talk about The Jungle and The Sea and the power of theatre. On at Belvoir Theatre at the moment.

Shakthi is a Western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He’s a writer, director and producer of film and theatre, as well as a composer and performer of original music.

Shakthi’s debut play Counting and Cracking had a sell-out season at Sydney Festival 2019, followed by the Adelaide Festival, with rave reviews and a profound impact on the Sri Lankan community. The script won the Victorian Premier’s overall Literature Prize and the NSW Premier’s Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. The production has gone on to win 7 Helpmann Awards including 2 for Shakthi – Best New Australian Work and Best Direction of a Play. It also won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian Work and was nominated for Best Direction of the Mainstage Production. The play toured the UK in August 2022 including a run at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair joins Regina Botros to talk about life, theatre and Pinter.

Iain Sinclair is well recognised as one of Australia’s finest directors of actors in performance consistently helping them generate empowered, sophisticated and dignified work.

After graduating from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King’s College London where he specialised in directing actors and developmental dramaturgy Iain has had a rich and successful career alternating between bold new plays and the classics, he has directed celebrated major productions for state companies at STC, Belvoir, MTC and Queensland Theatre, he has directed for numerous mid level professional companies and also consistently works outside of the mainstream paradigm creating top level independent productions.

 

Bert LaBonte

Bert LaBonte joins Regina Botros to talk about life in the theatre and A Raisin in The Sun. 
Sydney Theatre company.

 

One of Australia’s leading men, Bert’s Melbourne Theatre Company credits include: The Truth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Lungs, Rupert, Birdland, The Mountaintop, Elling, A Behanding in Spokane, Clybourne Park, Richard III and others. For Sydney Theatre Company, he has performed in A Raisin in the Sun, All My Sons, The Grenade and Spelling Bee, and his Malthouse Theatre credits include: Cloudstreet, I am A Miracle, Time Share. 

Musical theatre credits include: The Book of Mormon (Watchtower Productions), Helpmann Award Winner An Officer and a Gentleman (Gordon Frost Organisation), Chess (The Production Company), Grey Gardens (The Production Company), Pippin (Kookaburra Theatre), Full Monty (IMG / David Atkins), Jesus Christ Superstar (Really Useful Group), Showboat (Livent/Marriner Productions), Guys and Dolls (Ambassador Group). 

Screen credits include FISK (ABC), The Newsreader (ABC), Surviving Summer (Netflix/Werner Film Productions), Literary Lethargy (Baby Banksia), Jack Irish (ABC), With Intent (Freemantle Media), a recurring role on Wentworth (Foxtel), Playing for Keeps (Network Ten), Upper Middle Bogan (ABC), Tomorrow When The War Began (ABC), Lowdown (ABC), Wilfred (ABC), The Let Down (ABC/Netflix), and Squinters (SBS). Film credits including Animal Kingdom (Porchlight Films) and The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (Kathy Morgan International). 

Katie Pollock

Katie is an award-winning writer for stage, radio and screen.

She joins Regina to talk about her play ROUGH TRADE playing as part of Sydney Festival

 

Her plays for theatre are Normal ; The Becoming ; The Hansard Monologues—Age of Entitlement ; Blue Italian/Nil by Sea ; The Hansard Monologues—A Matter of Public Importance ); The Blue Angel Hotel; A Quiet Night in Rangoon ; A Girl Called Red ; and numerous short works, including Contact  and as part of The Curve an so much more...