Art and artists in Australia and internationally, including studies of the work of artists including Ainslie Roberts, John Perceval, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, Yosl Bergner, Shen Jiawei, John Russell, and photographers Tracey Moffatt and Olive Cotton. Special emphasis on Indigenous art, its commercial exploitation, its history and the work of individual artists including Gordon Bennett, Albert Namatjira and Jimmy Pike.
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2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 115 min
Oswald talks about the stories behind the plays, her stagecraft and her passion for notebooks. more » Click for pricing information »
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2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min
Hannie Rayson engages with the national conversation and rehearses the big debates of our time. She uses family as a platform to discuss these issues. Hotel Sorrento, Inheritance, Life After George and the provocative Two Brothers make up her most influential works. She talks freely about her influences, her working methods and her urbanity... more » Click for pricing information »
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2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
Jack Hibberd talks about his writing methods and about his plays, including Dimboola. Includes Extras. more » Click for pricing information »
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2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 125 min
Joanna Murray-Smith talks about writing first drafts, her childhood influences, her overseas productions and her working relationship with directors. more » Click for pricing information »
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2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min
The dissident walks through Katherine Thomson’s plays – the whistleblower, the unionist and the activist occupy her stage. We see them in Harbour, Mavis Goes to Timor, and Wonderlands. Katherine talks about her writing process, where he research has led her and where her ideas come from. She discusses her stagecraft and the effect of the spectacular... more » Click for pricing information »
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2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min
A prolific writer who has changed the way we view theatre. From his evocative The Golden Age through Cosi and Radiance to the Boyce Trilogy we have come to expect the Nowra stage to show us the unexpected. A master of adaptation Nowra talks frankly about his working methods, his fascination with the fall of empires and the effect his childhood accident had on his concerns for language and teaching... more » Click for pricing information »
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2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min
An Australian playwright whose influences are suburbia, politics and rock music. His Ruby Moon delighted and shocked audiences. He holds a lens up to the ordinary and shows us how disturbing, how provocative it can be. Cameron talks about his themes of love, loss and the impossible and he shares his interest in comedy, his obsession with perfecting the text and his fascination with a kind of post-modern-absurdism... more » Click for pricing information »
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2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 57 min
Ray Lawler talks about his writing methods and about his plays, including The Doll Trilogy. Includes Extras. more » Click for pricing information »
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2010 (PG) 30 min
Five awarding-winning playwrights talk about the staging of their plays - MATT CAMERON, LOUIS NOWRA, DEBRA OSWALD, HANNIE RAYSON and DAVID WILLIAMSON more » Click for pricing information »
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2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 42 min
Five award-winning playwrights talk about their writing processes - ANDREW BOVELL, MATT CAMERON, JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH, HANNIE RAYSON and DAVID WILLIAMSON. more » Click for pricing information »
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