Patricia Cornelius News

50th Anniversary Australian Playwright's Festival Announced

by Stephi Wild — February 14, 2022

To celebrate its recent 50th birthday, Currency Press, Australia's foremost publisher of the performing arts, is convening the Australian Playwrights' Festival.

THISISPOPBABY's First Play Of 2022 is Patricia Cornelius' SHIT

by Stephi Wild — January 28, 2022

Licking off THISISPOPBABY's unmissable 15-Year Anniversary programme this March is the electrifying, multi-award winning play SHIT by acclaimed playwright Patricia Cornelius, for 5 performances only at Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

ARCHIMEDES WAR Will Be Performed at Northcote Town Hall Beginning This Month

by Stephi Wild — November 15, 2021

Playwright Melissa Reeves has teamed up with director Susie Dee in Archimedes War, a dark comedy exploring the frightening depersonalisation of modern warfare.

Rescheduled Season Confirmed For ARCHIMEDES WAR at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centr

by Stephi Wild — June 10, 2021

What happens when our games are about war, and war is played like a game? Playwright Melissa Reeves has teamed up with director Susie Dee for a dark comedy exploring the frightening depersonalisation of modern warfare at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre from 10 – 20 August.

ARCHIMEDES WAR By Melissa Reeves to Premiere From 9 To 19 June

by A.A. Cristi — May 10, 2021

What happens when our games are about war, and war is played like a game? Playwright Melissa Reeves has teamed up with director Susie Dee for a dark comedy exploring the frightening depersonalisation of modern warfare at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre from 9 - 19 June.

STC's Patrick White Fellow, Award Winner And Emerging Writers Group Announced

by A.A. Cristi — May 4, 2021

Angus Cerini has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company's new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow, just six months after his gothic two-hander Wonnangatta starring Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair marked the Company's return to the stage following last year's industry shutdown.

Susie Dee, Patricia Cornelius, and Nicci Wilks Team Up on RUNT

by Stephi Wild — February 5, 2021

Following their incredibly successful and multi award-winning collaboration on SHIT, Susie Dee, Patricia Cornelius and Nicci Wilks have re-teamed to create RUNT, a play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.

SEGAL TALKS Week Nine Programming to Feature Kris Verdonck, Anne Bogart & More

by Chloe Rabinowitz — May 22, 2020

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Fortyfivedownstairs' 2019 Program Receives 25 Green Room Award Nominations

by A.A. Cristi — February 17, 2020

BWW Review: ANTHEM at Perth Festival

by Cicely Binford — February 13, 2020

Performing Lines Announces 2020 Program

by Stephi Wild — February 9, 2020

Dynamic and unique Australian arts production company Performing Lines are thrilled to announce their vibrant 2020 program, which sees them working with over 200 artists across 30 productions and 3 development programs.

BWW REVIEW: Two Decades After Their First Collaboration, 4 Playwrights And A Composer Rejoin To Reassess The State Australia As They Ride The Rails With ANTHEM

by Jade Kops — January 18, 2020

Under Susie Dee's direction, playwrights Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, and Christos Tsiolkas and composer and musical director Irine Vela's ANTHEM weaves a series of stories together to reflect the struggles of Australians not often truly seen in mainstream media.

BWW Review: ANTHEM at Melbourne International Arts Festival is compelling, authentic, and necessary

by Victoria Beal — October 4, 2019

20 years after a?oeWho's Afraid of the Working Class?a?? premiered at the Melbourne Workers Theatre, the same group of exceptional writers have come back together to hold the mirror back up to our country with Anthem.

Outer Urban Projects Presents THE AUDITION

by Stephi Wild — September 18, 2019

Outer Urban Projects will premiere a new Australian work, The Audition, which examines the parallels of the selection processes experienced by actors seeking work and refugees seeking asylum.

Malthouse Theatre Announces 2020 Season

by A.A. Cristi — August 25, 2019

From the backstreets of Melbourne's northern suburbsto the depths of Antarctica, a Scottish Shakespearean spectacle to Oscar Wilde's most famous comedy of lies, Malthouse Theatre brings history, culture, politics, subversion, great odysseys and truth-telling together under one roof.

EDINBURGH 2019: SHIT Q&A

by Natalie O'Donoghue — July 27, 2019

Coming directly from the incredibly prestigious theatre festival VENICE BIENNALE TEATRO 2019, long-time collaborators - writer Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee - shine a neon striplight on the intersections of class and misogony, bringing three thoroughly nasty girls on stage in SHIT a?" an

Multi-Award Winning Play SHlT Comes To The Edinburgh Fringe For Its UK Premiere

by Marianka Swain — July 4, 2019

Longtime collaborators, writer Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee, have made a work about these out of control girls, angry, nasty girls.

Nakkiah Lui Is The New Sydney Theatre Company Patrick White Playwrights Fellow

by Stephi Wild — May 9, 2019

Sydney Theatre Company announced last night that Nakkiah Lui is the 2018 STC Patrick White Playwrights Fellow.

Theatre Under The Stars 50th Anniversary Season Gala Wows Attendees And Raises A Record $1.37 Million

by A.A. Cristi — March 27, 2019

Welcome to Theatre Under The Stars 50th Anniversary Season Gala, an incredible and intimate celebration this past Saturday, March 23rd with Broadway star Idina Menzel and more than 600 TUTS family and friends.

Arts Centre Melbourne And Melbourne Fringe Present TAKE OVER! 2019

by A.A. Cristi — January 3, 2019

Following the success of its previous two years, Arts Centre Melbourne is proud to announce that applications are now open for the third instalment of the Take Over! commission in partnership with Melbourne Fringe.