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Deep Soulful Sweats at Next Wave’s All School Lab 2024. Photo: Supplied. Wearing wearing t-shirts of different colours gathering in an area and throwing their arms in the air to the beat.
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Next Wave celebrates 40 years with All School Lab

Next Wave traces its history with artists who have grown throughout its programs and festivals.

Peacemongers. Against a green backdrop an Asian woman and white man sit at a dinner table laden with food, candles and books. He holds a butternut pumpkin and she holds a wine glass. They are both wearing serviettes tucked into their collars.
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Theatre review: Peacemongers, Darebin Arts Speakeasy

An experimental think piece that played with the concept of a perfect world.

Man and woman sitting on floor looking at computer
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This week's arts news and trending topics

We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

I Wish... In front of a backdrop of a huge moon in the night sky, four circus performers dressed in yellow, blue, red and green perform, with two performers holding aloft a third who is doing the splits, while the fourth performer stands at the back holding up an Astera light tube.
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Performance review: I Wish..., Theatre Royal

Children's circus in a collaborative effort that gently introduced young visitors to physical theatre.

The King's Player. Image is a bald white actor dressed in scruffy Middle Ages clothes with his mouth agape and his arms stretched out in surprise. Behind him is a large yellowish backdrop featuring a circle with a picture of a juggler in it.
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Theatre review: The King's Player, Alex Theatre

A one-man comedy show inspired by 'Hamlet', and told from the perspective of a lowly minstrel desperate for promotion.

Phsyical actors like Ell Sachs are saying self-taped auditions are dehumanising for actors.
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Actors lose out in self-taped auditions

Self-taped auditions have become the norm for screen and theatre in Australia, but actors nation-wide say the practice is unreasonable.

Photo: Anna Shvets, Pexels. A hand reaching out from the right hand corner of the image holding a trophy in baby pink and blue. There is confetti in the air and the background is also pink.
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Opportunities and awards

Fifty Squared Art Prize open for entries, plus winner of Calibre Essay Prize and finalists of wearable art, and more!

A silhouette of a person setting up a stage in a darkened space with rigging and a lit-up screen projection behind them.
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Alarming cost increases for arts organisations not in line with funding levels

How many more arts organisations will have to cancel or reduce their programming under the weight of rising costs?

Matthew Shepherd. Image is a black and white head and shoulders shot of a young blond man wearing a jumper and standing in a room in front of a window. His head is tilted to the left.
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Hate transmuted into theatrical gold in new staged reading of The Laramie Project

A Sydney reading of the verbatim play about Matthew Shepard’s murder will feature Shepard’s father, Dennis, reading his courtroom statement.

Wild Dogs Under My Skirt. Image is a group of Samoan women on a stage sitting on chairs in a semi circle and holding their fists together in front of them. In the middle stands another woman in a grey dress raising her arms triumphantly. The camera is at the back of the audience so some silhouetted heads are in the foreground.
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Performance review: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, Riverside Theatres

Poetry-based work about being a Samoan woman performed by a multi-skilled ensemble.

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