Tag: atc

One of Australia’s greatest contemporary playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, talks about ATC’s latest production of her play Switzerland, based on the renowned queer author Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley). Joanna discusses the dark character and working with Dame Helen Mirren on the upcoming film adaptation. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! What inspired...

Benjamin Kilby-Henson, Co-Director of Auckland Theatre Company’s King Lear, ponders the question, ‘How does my queerness influence my work and artistic output?’ Well, fuck, I suppose the answer would be ‘wholeheartedly,’ as my queerness is so central to who I am, what I want to say, and how I see...

They say there is a role that every actor was born to play. When Auckland Theatre Company cast the role of Arie in Emily Perkins’ The Made, they found that actor in Hannah Tasker-Poland, a queer progressive-feminist fresh from producing her own first full-length work, The Most Naked. Hannah...

Sandi Hall finds Auckland Theatre Company's latest show is packed with wicked humour as it explores our heart's desires. The American play, Six Degrees of Separation, opened to a packed, expectant audience at the ASB Waterfront Theatre last night (16th August) and delivered on its promise to make us laugh...

Tane Williams-Accra talks to express about playing a gay con man, lying to his personal trainer and travelling solo. Best known for playing Ali Karim on Shortland Street, Tane Williams-Accra is ditching the screen for the stage to play ‘Paul’, a gay street hustler and con artist in ATC’s...