Fiona Gruber speaks to Beckett expert Dr Mark Byron from the University of Sydney about the influences and ideas behind Beckett's work, including the 20th century masterpiece Endgame.

Image: Samuel Beckett in 1977, photographed by Roger Pic, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Fiona Gruber speaks to award-winning actor Miriam Margolyes about her role as Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers in MTC's production of I'll Eat You Last by John Logan.

Fiona Gruber interviews German writer and director Falk Richter, and Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk about their latest collaboration, Complexity of Belonging.

Fiona Gruber explores MTC's 2015 Season with MTC Artistic Director Brett Sheehy, comedy writer Steve Vizard and director Sam Strong.

Fiona Gruber explores MTC's 2015 Season with MTC Artistic Director Brett Sheehy, actor Jane Turner, writer Aidan Fennessy, and Director Sam Strong.

Fiona Gruber speaks to Sam Strong, director of Brendan Cowell's provocative new play 'The Sublime', about the murky world of football codes, celebrity and scandal.

For more information, visit: www.mtc.com.au/sublime

Fiona Gruber speaks to Lucy Prebble, playwright of 'The Effect', and star of the Melbourne production, Sigrid Thornton about the play, love, depression and drug trials.

For more information, visit: www.mtc.com.au/effect

How, in our globalised world, is a piece of theatre defined – by the origin of its makers, where it was made, content, or place of premiere? Are we restricted creatively by a preoccupation with a dated idea of ‘Australian’ content? Are contemporary Australian artists even concerned with their identity?

Chair

Daniel Schlusser – Director

Panel

Patricia Cornelius – Playwright

Nakkiah Lui – Writer

Sam Strong – Associate Artistic Director, MTC

Lyn Wallis – Director, Theatre, Australia Council for the Arts

Please note: This recording includes some coarse language.

Coming off the back of his triumphant second season at Komische Oper Berlin, Barrie Kosky returns to Melbourne for NEON Festival's inaugural keynote conversation. A recording of the conversation from 20 July 2014 at Southbank Theatre.

In the lead-up to our production of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' starring Alex Dimitriades (pictured), Fiona Gruber spoke to renowned British theatre critic Michael Coveney about David Mamet's classic play; the jazz-like rhythms of the dialogue, the themes of capitalism and male competitiveness, and the influence of this play on modern playwrights.