The Power of Theatre: Panel with Mary Anne Butler, Samah Sabawi, & Nathan Maynard. Chair Mari Lourey.
Three esteemed playwrights discuss why they write plays and the ongoing power and importance of theatre.
Three esteemed playwrights discuss why they write plays and the ongoing power and importance of theatre.
Samah Sabawi and Eda Gunaydin explore how writing can rise above the noise to centre truth, care, and the ethical weight of storytelling across exile and inherited histories.
Gaza to Dublin: A staged reading of Sabawi’s Tales of a City by the Sea featuring Palestinian performers, music, choreography, and visual elements that bring this powerful work to life.
VIGIL is a polyvocal performance work made by visionary communities and creatives with something to ask of Australia: What lives matter? Do our lives matter? A crowded tram progresses along its journey. There is a passenger fleeing war and bombs. Another flees her partner. One believes she has found refuge from an oppressive regime. Another wants to walk a park at night and feel the grass under her feet. One observes the settlers on this tram, in all their diversity and indifference to Blak lives. Commuters crack jokes about wives, and mothers, and laugh. You are invited to take this journey to the end of the line.