EIGHT GIGABYTES OF HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY – TRAILER

22.04.14

Declan Greene’s fierce and astonishing new play Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography plays from 2 May-14 June. Check out the trailer.  

INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: COREY MCMAHON

08.04.14

In our final blog from the Music rehearsal room, director Corey McMahon reveals how he came to know Jane Bodie and the challenges of directing a new play. I was standing in the rehearsal room at Paines Plough, the new writing…

CULTURAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: AUSTRALIAN WRITERS' WEEK, BEIJING

In the final instalment of our posts from Jenevieve Chang, she heads to Beijing for the final leg of Australian Writers’ Week and meets her fellow ‘Asian-Australian’ authors selected to represent contemporary Australian literature and explore cross-cultural perspectives. The first…

INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: KATE SKINNER

25.03.14

Actor Kate Skinner navigates us through the first weeks of Music rehearsals; revealing the wonder, joy and jitters as the cast starts to make the play their own. It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of our 2nd week…

CULTURAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: WRITING AND REMEMBERING

In the second of our series of posts from Jenevieve Chang, she pieces together her family history and makes sense of her urgent need for storytelling.  Being back in China as I recount what I know, and write more of…

CULTURAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: JENEVIEVE CHANG

11.03.14

Jenevieve Chang has been a participating artist in Griffin’s Cultural Leadership Program. The program is aimed at supporting artists interested in creating work from a diversity of cultural and artistic perspectives, and nurturing the brave new voices of contemporary Australia….

INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: JANE BODIE ON MUSIC

In the first of our series from inside the Music rehearsal room, playwright Jane Bodie talks about writing Music and her family’s experience with mental illness. I began writing Music some years ago, the idea arrived and began to knock loudly, when two…

2014 GRIFFIN STUDIO: INTRODUCING LUKE ROGERS

25.02.14

In our final instalment of our 2014 Griffin Studio profiles, we meet director Luke Rogers and hear about his passion for new writing and the many theatrical hats he has worn thus far. Where do you come from? I live in…

WATCH OUR JUMP FOR JORDAN INTERVIEW

17.02.14

  The luminous Alice Ansara and Anna Houston excavate their characters, Sophia and Sam, in our behind-the-scenes look at the hilarious and multi-layered Jump for Jordan.

IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN

12.02.14

Our GriffInsider jumps back inside the Jump for Jordan rehearsal room and is impressed by the volume of female roles in the play. Doris Younane, Sheridan Harbridge, Camilla Ah Kin & Alice Ansara. Photograph by Brett Boardman