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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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11:28

Jess Fuchs Sydney Comedy Festival

Backstage ·

2023/05/02

jess Fuchs joins Regina Botros to talk comedy, improv and how to be chill! Jess has traveled the world as an improviser and stand up comedian. She has graced the stages, clubs, theaters and dirtiest pubs around the globe, including Gotham Comedy Club in New York, Second City Toronto, The Comedy Store Sydney, to name a few.

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22:20

Lisa Fa’alafi - Hot Brown Honey

Backstage ·

2023/04/27

Lisa Fa’alafi, joins Regina Botros to talk about Hot Brown Honey's return of THE REMIX> Lisa is the fierce femme leader of the multi-award-winning collective of global First Nations women, Hot Brown Honey which will be returning to the Sydney Opera House after eight years in May as part of its UnWrapped season. Hot Brown Honey – THE REMIX (4-13 May) it will dance the line between theatrical and social activism mashing up hip-hop, dance, cabaret, circus, poetry, and comedy will spin tradition on its

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25:50

Rachael Swain from Marrugeku

Backstage ·

2023/04/20

Rachael joins Regina Botros to share her beginnings as a creative to the current Marrugeku show at the Carriageworks. Racheal grew up around activism and protests with her parents in New Zealand and has forged a career as a director and dramaturg of trans-disciplinary and intercultural dance theatre as well as a dance and performance scholar and researcher. She specialises in creating platforms for Indigenous and intercultural choreographies and dramaturgies in dance and in facilitating these

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20:43

Solomon Thomas and UFO at Griffin theatre

Backstage ·

2023/04/18

SOLOMON THOMAS joins Regina Botros BACKSTAGE. He is a theatre maker and performer and is a core member of re:group performance collective, He explores the intersection between the physical and digital in theatre, experimenting with how theatre and film can co-exist in a live context. He works as a performer, puppeteer, theatre maker and video designer and is driven by how these practices meet formally. UFO by Kirby Medway and Solomon Thomas at the SBW Stables Theatre from 18th to 29th April 2023

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03:34

Review of JULIA at Sydney Theatre Company

Backstage ·

2023/04/11

Regina Botros reviews Julia at the Sydney theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House. JULIA By Joanna Murray-Smith Directed by Sarah Goodes Not now, not ever In 2012, Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world. Now, ten years later, one of Australia’s most esteemed and celebrated playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, brings the human story behind that speech to the stage. Julia is an extraordinary new play that will see the glorious

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24:36

Metropolis with Julia Robertson and Zara Stanton

Backstage ·

2023/04/06

Two directors from this new musical Metropolis - wow - join Regina Botros to talk theatre. Julia Robertson is an actor, director, and musician. She is the current Artistic Director of the award winning devising group, the Little Eggs Collective. Acting credits include Jess and Joe Forever (25A Belvoir, 2019 dir. Shaun Rennie), The Astral Plane (25A Belvoir, 2019 dir. Charlie Garber), The Real Thing (STC, 2019 dir. Simon Phillips), The Oyster (Critical Stages, 2021 dir. Scarlet McGlynn) and Wherever

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21:52

Zoe Hollyoak

Backstage ·

2023/03/30

Zoe joins Regina Botros to talk about her life in the arts and in particular, Collapsible, playing at the Old Fitz. Zoë Hollyoak is a director and creative producer with nearly 10 years of experience working across a range of organisations including Belvoir, Performing Lines, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA. Zoë is currently the Program Producer for Performance Space, SHE has worked across theatre, film and mixed media projects for PICA, triple

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23:33

Justin Smith

Backstage ·

2023/03/16

Justin Smith joins Regina Botros to talk all things theatrical. His life in the theatre and how he's come to be thrilling audiences in the role of the Baker in Into the Woods, with music by mastermind Stephen Sondheim. Justin has starred in numerous stage productions, most recently Hayes Theatre’s Dubbo Championship Wrestling and Bangarra’s, Wudjang: Not The Past, with some of his other theatre credits including Billy Elliot The Musical, and National Theatre of Parramatta’s Jesus Wants Me For A

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23:04

Tom Dawson and Meg Hyeronimus in Cherry Smoke

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2023/03/14

Tom Dawson and Meg Hyeronimus join Regina Botros to talk Cherry Smoke and theatre! Cherry Smoke follows four young kids trying to grow in to the adults that the society that neglected them will accept. We can try to build the dream, but at what cost? When you're not taught to use your words but your fists can you ever truly change, or are you destined to repeat the past?

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19:21

Nicholas Brown

Backstage ·

2023/02/22

Nick joins Regina to talk Sex Magick his new work to hit the Griffin Stage. Nicholas Brown has forged an international career as an actor, singer, writer, and Bollywood leading man since graduating from NIDA. Brown recently featured in Belvoir St Theatre’s Counting and Cracking, which won the Helpmann Award for Best Play, and The Long Forgotten Dream and Still Point Turning for Sydney Theatre Company. His writing credits include Lighten Up for Griffin, The Unlisted for Aquarius Films and Tantra 2

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17:50

Daniel Clarke

Backstage ·

2023/02/19

Sydney Pride Festival director Daniel Clarke joins Regina Botros to get the insight into the festival colours. Listen up - listen proud! Daniel has worked as an Artistic Director, Creative Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Programmer and CEO across Australia and the UK. He is a respected arts leader with a commitment to inclusivity, bold voices, independent artists, new works and artistic development. He has championed the works of many visionary LGBTIQA+ artists throughout his career from

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28:22

Annalouise Paul

Backstage ·

2023/02/15

Annalousie Paul joins Regina Botros in this episode to talk about her experiences as a flamenco dancer; how she came to it, the stories she tells and the new @Salon Flamenco series she is curating for Sydney World Pride. Tickets and general info for https://prideamplified.au/events/salon-flamenco/ Facebook event page with full program details https://www.facebook.com/events/654379352729685 Photo credit: Binu Photography

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24:49

Lewis Treston

Backstage ·

2023/02/15

Lewis talks with Regina Botros about his play Hubris and Humiliation - on at Sydney Theatre Company at the moment. Lewis is an AWARD Winning playwright and In this Sydney world pride (and prejudice ) production…think Jane Austen’s drawing rooms and country estates are switched out for the dizzying dancefloors and leafy avenues of post-plebiscite Sydney---is what it says online Lewis is a former STC Patrick white award winner. This production is Presented in association with Sydney WorldPride and

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23:57

Blair Cutting and David Hooley - In A Little Room

Backstage ·

2023/02/02

Actors Blair and David talk to Regina about the life and times Queen Elizabeth I's reign in 1593. Double agent, spy and famous playwright, Christopher Marlowe has been called to a lodging house in Deptford on the Thames to answer to his secret double dealings...In a Little Room written by David Allen. A deep dive into the much speculated happenings on that fateful night and a knife fight. Listen in to a very informative chat about the times of this play's history and what may have

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16:20

Rachel Healy

Backstage ·

2023/01/31

Rachel Healy joins Regina Botros Backstage. Rachel is the Interim Director of The Pavilion Arts Centre, Sutherland, which has just opened with its first show, Bangarra’s ---Waru. Rachel has been working in the arts and cultural sector for more than twenty years including Director of Performing Arts for Sydney Opera House and ten years as General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre. Adelaide festival and so much more. We delve into the new space and what theatre looks like after a pandemic.

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15:48

Melanie Tait talks A Broadcast Coup

Backstage ·

2023/01/31

Trisha Starrs talks with Melanie about her new work. Ensemble Theatre is thrilled to stage the long-awaited world premiere of writer and broadcaster, Melanie Tait’s (The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race) thought-provoking, sharp comedy, A BROADCAST COUP, from 26th January to 4th March 2023. A major highlight of the 2023 Sydney Festival, A BROADCAST COUP incisively delves into the abuse of power and lack of accountability from controversial public figures. Cut-throat journalist Jez Connell is out for her

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29:05

Sydney Festival Show 11th January 2023

Backstage ·

2023/01/13

Sydney Festival fills our Backstage podcast this week. Tracker with Artistic Director of ADT -Daniel Riley. Neighbours with Albanian contemporary dancer, and choreographer Brigel Gjoka. Werk It with fierce-as-hell director Malia Walsh. Antarctica composer Mary Finisterer.

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28:39

S Shakthidharan

Backstage ·

2022/11/30

Shakthi joins Regina to talk about The Jungle and The Sea and the power of theatre. On at Belvoir Theatre at the moment. Shakthi is a Western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He’s a writer, director and producer of film and theatre, as well as a composer and performer of original music. Shakthi’s debut play Counting and Cracking had a sell-out season at Sydney Festival 2019, followed by the Adelaide Festival, with rave reviews and a profound impact on the Sri Lankan

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35:42

Iain Sinclair

Backstage ·

2022/10/27

Iain Sinclair joins Regina Botros to talk about life, theatre and Pinter. Iain Sinclair is well recognised as one of Australia’s finest directors of actors in performance consistently helping them generate empowered, sophisticated and dignified work. After graduating from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King’s College London where he specialised in directing actors and developmental dramaturgy Iain has had a rich and successful career alternating between bold new plays and the classics, he has

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34:02

Bert LaBonte

Backstage ·

2022/10/11

Bert LaBonte joins Regina Botros to talk about life in the theatre and A Raisin in The Sun. Sydney Theatre company. One of Australia’s leading men, Bert’s Melbourne Theatre Company credits include: The Truth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Lungs, Rupert, Birdland, The Mountaintop, Elling, A Behanding in Spokane, Clybourne Park, Richard III and others. For Sydney Theatre Company, he has performed in A Raisin in the Sun, All My Sons, The Grenade and Spelling Bee, and his Malthouse Theatre credits

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