The Witness Podcast

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Team Witness – Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Robert Reid – discuss this month in Australian performing arts. Podcasts edited by Ben Keene.

Episodes

  1. 06/30/2021

    So long and thanks for all the fish

    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.

    43 min

  2. 11/08/2018

    The Witness Podcast: Why we need diverse critics

    In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts.

    22 min

  3. 09/04/2018

    The Witness Podcast: The story so far

    Is there a new energy sweeping through our theatres? For this month's Witness Podcast, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look back on what they've seen since Witness launched in March.

    27 min

  4. 07/31/2018

    The Witness Podcast: Who can speak?

    In this month's Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage conversations about the problems we face in our community, such as the revelations around #MeToo?

    28 min

  5. 07/04/2018

    The Witness Podcast: Questioning white spaces

    On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls to be banned.

    22 min

  6. 05/31/2018

    The Witness Podcast: How did we get here?

    Since 2013, the absolute number of individual artists and organisations funded by the Australia Council has decreased by 73 per cent. Alison Croggon and Robert Reid take a look at how we got here.

    29 min

  7. 04/30/2018

    The Witness Podcast: Criticism and ‘political correctness’

    Is "political correctness" a thing? Can we be critically rigorous and also not bigoted? This month Team Witness dives into the minefield of political correctness and freedom of speech in the arts.

    25 min

  8. 04/02/2018

    The Witness Podcast: Is everything too broken?

    In times of increasing austerity, arts companies are becoming reluctant to take risks: so how do we address urgent systemic problems, such as racism or sexism?  Robert Reid, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon ask all the questions. Answers? Not so much...

    27 min

  9. 03/02/2018

    The Witness Podcast: Meet the team

    For our first Witness podcast, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Robert Reid talk about the crucial importance of Indigenous critical voices, and ponder how to discuss contemporary dance in the lead-up to our coverage of the Keir Choreographic Awards.

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Team Witness – Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Robert Reid – discuss this month in Australian performing arts. Podcasts edited by Ben Keene.

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  • Creator
    Witness Performance
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2021
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Witness Performance
  • Show Website
    The Witness Podcast