Culture

For First Nations theatre-maker Glenn Shea, the comedy series Basically Black remains as fresh and radical as when it premiered in 1973.

Adapted from a novel about the Nicaraguan crisis of the 1980s, Claire Denis’s latest film taps into a deep well of human sensuality and doom.

Melbourne Theatre Company’s newest work is an adventurous and relentlessly upbeat portrayal of the life of Evonne Goolagong Cawley.

The powerful work of South Korean artist Do Ho Suh brings a universal significance to biographical detail.

Self-effacing writer Jack Thorne, whose prolific career ranges from grim Welsh mining dramas to Enola Holmes and adapting Dickens, talks about channelling anger and fear in his work.

This all happened a little while ago. I was at the Shed on a Thursday night and Kiz was giving me a Steven Spielberg between sets about how he hates when people’s socks don’t match their shoes. ‘I’m a repeat offender,’ I said to him, lowering the barbell down to the rack. Well, if I’m being honest, it started earlier than that. My boss took me out to some underground whisky bar in the city and when she saw my socks she goes, ‘You know only paedophiles wear white socks and black shoes?’

Meeting Yolŋu master weaver Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr was a transformational moment for artist Lisa Hilli.