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Backstage

Regina Botros talks with the best theatre makers of our times about their life on and off the stage. Theatre, Dance, Comedy and Performing Arts. Theme music by Dave Wray Image by Tuo

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29:54

Van Badham

Backstage ·

2024/02/09

Van Badham joins Regina Backstage to talk about A Fool In Love for Sydney Theatre Company.Badham said, “The greatest Australian virtue is our readiness to laugh at ourselves. What an honour it is to let loose the local sense of humour on a classic farce like Lope de Vega’s La dama boba, in which an aspirational scheme to marry off an heiress comes so spectacularly undone. Van Badham is a writer, critic, trade unionist, feminist, activist and occasional broadcaster, an internationally award-winning

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14:33

Anita Heiss

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2024/01/31

Anita Heiss joins Regina to talk about her adaptation of the play TIDDAS - on at Belvoir theatre. Tiddas- Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books, lovers, and the jagged bits of life in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don’t they? Dr Anita Heiss AM is a proud member of the Wiradyuri nation of central New South

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30:30

Leigh Sachwitz

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2023/12/06

Leigh Sachwitz is the founder and leading creative director of flora&faunavisions. She is an award winning creator and visionary, and the mastermind behind the content that will be displayed across 23 LED screens for Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle. Her work spans across immersive experiences, exhibitions, music stages, theatre and opera performances, fashion shows and art installations. Leigh has characterised a unique style through design in space and time.

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24:20

Thomas DeAngelis

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2023/11/21

Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, theatre maker and researcher. He joins Regina Botros to talk about the operatic odyssey of a lifetime; the site-specific pastiche opera TRACK WORKS will take centre stage at Sydney’s iconic Mortuary Station in all its historical splendour (November 21 – December 19).

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16:11

Tom Conroy

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2023/11/13

Tom Conroy joins Regina Botros to dive into The Master and the Margarita on at Belvoir Theatre. Tom’s credits for Belvoir include Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Find out more here.

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17:47

Jane Montgomery Griffiths

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2023/10/26

Jane joins Regina to talk Malvolia (yes a twist on the role) in Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare. Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities. Twelfth Night opens at Sydney Opera House 26th October 2023 until 19 November.

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19:14

Thomas Campbell and Betty Is a Butcher

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2023/08/31

Thomas Campbell joins Regina Botros to talk through the inspiration for Betty Is a Butcher for Sydney Fringe. Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death. A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria A Siren Theatre Production, directed by Kate Jane Gaul.

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16:33

Chris Mitchell and The Marvellous Elephant Man the...

Backstage ·

2023/08/31

Chris Mitchell joins Regina Botros to see the spectacle of this Sydney Fringe show at the Speigeltent. The Marvellous Elephant man the Musical. The story of the “Elephant Man” has been told in many books and in the famous David Lynch film starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. The co-director of this production Chris Mitchell takes us into this new musical production, the inspiration and the exploration. Chris Mitchell is a Melbourne-based entrepreneur, major art grant recipient, graduate of 16th

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29:28

Kerri Glascock Sydney Fringe 2023

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2023/08/17

Kerri Glasscock Sydney Fringe Festival Director joins Regina to talk about what's hot this Sydney Fringe Festival. So much to see - catch the hot tips - here! A month of delicious, unfiltered, utterly unbelievable performance performances, where literally anything could happen. Spread across every inch of the city, from Parramatta to Hurstville, the Western Harbour, the CBD, and the Inner-East festival gardens. No matter where you find yourself at The Fringe, we guarantee an unforgettable

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25:59

Margaret Thanos director of A Very Expensive Poison

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2023/08/14

Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events. Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London. THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison. Subsequent investigations uncover a conspiracy generated from the very heart of the Russian government, and a murder probably

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28:47

Debra Oswald

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2023/08/06

Debra Oswald joins Regina to talk about tow shows playing at the Ensemble Theatre, plus how she came to writing from a young age. Debra Oswald is screenwriter, playwright and fiction author. She was the co-creator and head writer for series 1-5 of the award-winning Channel Ten series Offspring. Debra won the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for the Offspring telemovie script and won the 2014 AACTA for Best Television Screenplay for an episode in series 4. Her other television credits include

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21:11

Gareth Davies

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2023/07/21

Gareth joins Regina to talk about his life from wanting to be a philosopher to the stage and his current production performing in Benefactors at Ensemble Theatre. Gareth Davies is an actor and playwright based in Sydney. He has written and performed for the Black Lung Theatre (of which he’s a member), Belvoir St Theatre, the Malthouse and many more. Gareth’s theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Government Inspector (Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir); The Rover, Cat on

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25:56

Erica Brennan and The Hero Leaves One Tooth

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2023/07/21

Erica joins Regina to talk about her play The Hero Leaves One Tooth described as a ferocious new satire set in a world where women have developed vagina dentata as a means of protection against sexual assault. Erica is a director, writer, & producer of live performance. She believes that making art is a compulsion. She is passionate about holding space for artists to develop their practice and find sustainable ways to make work in an ever-changing environment. She is a champion of

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10:01

Bass Fam

Backstage ·

2023/07/12

Bass Fam talks with Regina about his show Oracle and his life as a theatre maker. Originally from a fine arts background, Bass is a passionate story teller at heart, a dreamer and an all-round creative with a colourful career spanning over a decade, with his work showcased around the world. With sell-out Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide seasons, ORACLE returns to Sydney following its first Sydney season in August 2022 at Sydney Opera House, and will bring more intoxicating magic to Roslyn Packer

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17:28

James Evans from Bell Shakespeare

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2023/07/06

James joins Regina to talk about Bell Shakespeare's lates production Romeo & Juliet in the new space and his role as Juliet's father. James Evans is Associate Director at Bell Shakespeare. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney. He has directed a production of Much Ado About Nothing, the Julius Caesar national tour, previously directing productions of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has

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25:53

Anchuli Felicia King and The Poison of Polygamy

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2023/06/22

Anchuli joins Regina Botros backstage to talk about her motivation for bringing this story to the stage and how her career has developed as a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent. As a playwright, King is interested in linguistic hybrids, digital cultures and globalization. The Royal Court Theatre’s mainstage production of King’s play White Pearl marked her professional debut in May 2019, directed by Nana Dakin. White Pearl was subsequently produced by

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17:24

Abbie-Lee Lewis & Harriet Gordon-Anderson

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2023/06/01

Two of the cast from Scenes From a Climate Era (Belvoir) join Regina Botros to talk about the state of our world and bringing the issues of today to the stage in this theatrical telling. Harriet Gordon-Anderson (Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ensemble Theatre’s Boxing Day BBQ) Abbie-Lee Lewis (Belvoir’s Wayside Bride, Counting and Cracking) This aired on Wednesday 31st May, 2023 on 2SER - the opening night of the production. A collective of more than 50 scenes written by the acclaimed climate

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29:30

Eloise Snape

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2023/05/30

Eloise joins Regina Botros to share with us the birth of this new production. Eloise is an award-winning writer, actor, producer and voice artist. She completed a Bachelor of Media in Writing at Macquarie University and received a scholarship to study in London. She has worked extensively as an actor in theatre and she works consistently on screen, most recently in Colin from Accounts. She has worked with her own independent theatre company, MopHead Productions, as well as Ensemble Theatre and

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31:30

Vashti Hughes

Backstage ·

2023/05/18

Vashti goes backstage with Regina Botros to talk about her life as a writer and performer. Vashti Hughes is a writer / actor and originally trained at UWS Nepean, graduating with a BA in Performance. Vashti has written and self produced works that are based in Sydney’s local history. Currently Vashti is performing in Kate’s final home, a site specific piece “Dinner with Kate Leigh the Gangster Queen” at 212 Devonshire St, Surry Hills, now the Jazzy Café Bar . “Dinner with Kate Leigh the Gangster

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23:23

Ari Maza Long and Alex Malone from AT WHAT COST

Backstage ·

2023/05/09

On this episode of Back stage Regina Botros is joined by Trisha Starrs to talk about:- At What Cost? Which has returned to Belvoir St Theatre, and is playing until the 21st May, before embarking on a national tour to Queensland, South Australia, and home to Tasmania. To First Nation’s playwright Nathan Maynard’s home state of Lutrawita (Tasmania), SET IN TASMANIA Boyd has been walking a tightrope – balancing responsibilities to Land and People with the simple business of making a living. But

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