Witness Podcasts

Team Witness gets together for a final podcast yarn about criticism, funding, Australian theatre history, Ibsen, Blak voices, inclusion and exclusion, accessibility, digital theatre, revolution, why we closed and what we loved about making Witness.

Ben Keene talks to Asia TOPA creative director Stephen Armstrong and director of design studio Sandpit and Asia TOPA digital dramaturg Dan Koerner about the innovation across digital platforms that followed when Covid-19 hit a major performing arts festival.

Ben Keene talks to theatre maker Daniel Schlusser - a performer, director, dramaturg and thinker who over the past decade has made some of Australia’s most groundbreaking theatre

Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meet online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now

Podcast: Ben Keene examines how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this year

Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. 'You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy'

The Witness Interview: In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing theatre makers

The Witness Interview: ‘There’s something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I’ve always felt compelled to wrestle with that.’ Thomas M Wright talks to Alison Croggon

Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and advocate, and his passionate and abiding connection to Australian arts.

'When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’ In Part 1 of this super fabulous and candid Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to performance artist Moira Finucane on the development of her unique queer performance art