Sydney festival

An appreciative audience.

A new Education Partnership will see academics on stage, students volunteering and engagement with the broad UNSW community.

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Evonne Goolagong Cawley's biography is an intimate and personal play, tempered with humour and love.

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Debates about the place of the monologue in theatre fall away when you have a show as compassionate and funny as The Weekend.

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Deer Woman, written, directed, designed, composed, stage managed and performed by First Nations artists from Canada, is anchored by a solo performance of fierce skill, focus and precision.

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Four generations, three languages and multiple cultural and theatrical traditions combine to great effect in the Sydney Festival production My Name Is Jimi, writes Caroline Wake.

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Elizabeth Le Compte's stage production of The Town Hall Affair reworks a signature moment in the history of the Women's Liberation Movement, writes Bryoni Trezise.

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Two exhibitions that illustrate the global challenges of inequality and displacement will open at UNSW Galleries this week as part of the 2018 Sydney Festival.

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A panoramic exhibition that visually forecasts the global displacement of entire cultures will have its Australian premiere at UNSW Galleries on Saturday as part of the Sydney Festival.   

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De Keersmaeker’s approach to working with music is unique and radical within the history of contemporary dance, writes Erin Brannigan.

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Jean Cocteau’s 1930 monodrama, La Voix Humaine, is melodramatic enough – but the play is toughened theatrically because the audience hears only one half of the conversation, writes Julian Murphet. 

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