Backstage

Tom Dawson and Meg Hyeronimus in Cherry Smoke

Tom Dawson and Meg Hyeronimus join Regina Botros to talk Cherry Smoke and theatre!

Cherry Smoke follows four young kids trying to grow in to the adults that the society that neglected them will accept. We can try to build the dream, but at what cost? When you're not taught to use your words but your fists can you ever truly change, or are you destined to repeat the past? 

Nicholas Brown

Nick joins Regina to talk Sex Magick his new work to hit the Griffin Stage.

Nicholas Brown has forged an international career as an actor, singer, writer, and Bollywood leading man since graduating from NIDA. Brown recently featured in Belvoir St Theatre’s Counting and Cracking, which won the Helpmann Award for Best Play, and The Long Forgotten Dream and Still Point Turning for Sydney Theatre Company. His writing credits include Lighten Up for Griffin, The Unlisted for Aquarius Films and Tantra 2 for Playwriting Australia.

Daniel Clarke

Sydney Pride Festival director Daniel Clarke joins Regina Botros to get the insight into the festival colours.

Listen up - listen proud!

Daniel has worked as an Artistic Director, Creative Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Programmer and CEO across Australia and the UK. He is a respected arts leader with a commitment to inclusivity, bold voices, independent artists, new works and artistic development. He has championed the works of many visionary LGBTIQA+ artists throughout his career from independent producing to within large cultural institutions.

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.