The Witness Podcast

Team Witness gets together for a final podcast yarn about criticism, funding, Australian theatre history, Ibsen, Blak voices, inclusion and exclusion, accessibility, digital theatre, revolution, why we closed and what we loved about making Witness.

In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts. 

Is there a new energy sweeping through our theatres? For this month's Witness Podcast, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look back on what they've seen since Witness launched in March.

In this month's Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage conversations about the problems we face in our community, such as the revelations around #MeToo?

On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls to be banned.

Since 2013, the absolute number of individual artists and organisations funded by the Australia Council has decreased by 73 per cent. Alison Croggon and Robert Reid take a look at how we got here.

Is "political correctness" a thing? Can we be critically rigorous and also not bigoted? This month Team Witness dives into the minefield of political correctness and freedom of speech in the arts.

In times of increasing austerity, arts companies are becoming reluctant to take risks: so how do we address urgent systemic problems, such as racism or sexism?  Robert Reid, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon ask all the questions. Answers? Not so much...

For our first Witness podcast, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Robert Reid talk about the crucial importance of Indigenous critical voices, and ponder how to discuss contemporary dance in the lead-up to our coverage of the Keir Choreographic Awards.