Nathan O’Keefe in Masquerade. Photo by Brett Boardman.
First staged in 1986, Melbourne Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015 with a broad-ranging program curated by Artistic Director Josephine Ridge. For her third and final festival, Ridge has placed greater emphasis on conversation and engagement, including a series of forums exploring the history, impact and evolution of the festival itself, a half-day forum on the art of adaptation, a Directors’ Lab attended by theatre-makers from across the country, and a live reading of 1984 at Parliament House to accompany the staging of a new UK production of George Orwell’s prescient and important novel.
