Backstage
Regina Botros talks with the best theatre makers of our times about their life on and off the stage. Theatre, Dance, Comedy and Performing Arts. Theme music by Dave Wray Image by Tuo
Episodes
Thomas ES Kelly joins Regina Botros to dig into his work SILENCE playing at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Unwrapped season, dedicated to uncovering extraordinary creatives.
SILENCE pulls the Treaty conversation out from under the rug and slams it back on the table. Funny, irreverent and reverberating with power, this is contemporary dance as you haven’t seen it before. This is one not to miss!
Thomas E.S. Kelly is a prou...
Sarah joins Regina to talk about how she has paved her way in as a director and the things that interest her. As well as her latert production No Pay? No Way! on at Sydney Theatre Company.
Sarah Giles is an award-winning opera and theatre director. Described by Limelight Magazine as one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatre-makers, she has a passion for comedy and opera and has directed over 25 productions for companies inclu...
Manuel Stark Santos from West Side Story joins Regina Backstage to talk about growing up dancing in the US to making it big on Broadway in New York to landing in Sydney to dance on the Handa Opera Stage. What a treat!
Opera Australia's production opens on the 22nd March, 2024.
Van Badham joins Regina Backstage to talk about A Fool In Love for Sydney Theatre Company.
Badham said, “The greatest Australian virtue is our readiness to laugh at ourselves. What an honour it is to let loose the local sense of humour on a classic farce like Lope de Vega’s La dama boba, in which an aspirational scheme to marry off an heiress comes so spectacularly undone.
Van Badham is a writer, critic, trade unionist, feminist, a...
Anita Heiss joins Regina to talk about her adaptation of the play TIDDAS - on at Belvoir theatre.
Tiddas- Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books, lovers, and the jagged bits of life in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don’t they?
Dr Anita Heiss A...
Leigh Sachwitz is the founder and leading creative director of flora&faunavisions.
She is an award winning creator and visionary, and the mastermind behind the content that will be displayed across 23 LED screens for Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle.
Her work spans across immersive experiences, exhibitions, music stages, theatre and opera performances, fashion shows and art installations. Leigh has characterised a unique style...
Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, theatre maker and researcher.
He joins Regina Botros to talk about the operatic odyssey of a lifetime; the site-specific pastiche opera TRACK WORKS will take centre stage at Sydney’s iconic Mortuary Station in all its historical splendour (November 21 – December 19).
Tom Conroy joins Regina Botros to dive into The Master and the Margarita on at Belvoir Theatre.
Tom’s credits for Belvoir include Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Find out more here.
Jane joins Regina to talk Malvolia (yes a twist on the role) in Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare.
Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities.
Twelfth Night opens at Sydney Opera House 26th October 2023 u...
Thomas Campbell joins Regina Botros to talk through the inspiration for Betty Is a Butcher for Sydney Fringe.
Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death. A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria
A Siren Theatre Production, directed by Kate Jane Gaul.
Chris Mitchell joins Regina Botros to see the spectacle of this Sydney Fringe show at the Speigeltent.
The Marvellous Elephant man the Musical.
The story of the “Elephant Man” has been told in many books and in the famous David Lynch film starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.
The co-director of this production Chris Mitchell takes us into this new musical production, the inspiration and the exploration.
Chris Mitchell is a Melb...
Kerri Glasscock Sydney Fringe Festival Director joins Regina to talk about what's hot this Sydney Fringe Festival.
So much to see - catch the hot tips - here!
A month of delicious, unfiltered, utterly unbelievable performance performances, where literally anything could happen. Spread across every inch of the city, from Parramatta to Hurstville, the Western Harbour, the CBD, and the Inner-East festival gardens. No matter where ...
Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events.
Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London.
THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison. Subsequent investigations uncover a conspiracy generated...
Debra Oswald joins Regina to talk about tow shows playing at the Ensemble Theatre, plus how she came to writing from a young age.
Debra Oswald is screenwriter, playwright and fiction author.
She was the co-creator and head writer for series 1-5 of the award-winning Channel Ten series Offspring. Debra won the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for the Offspring telemovie script and won the 2014 AACTA for Best Television Screenplay fo...
Gareth joins Regina to talk about his life from wanting to be a philosopher to the stage and his current production performing in Benefactors at Ensemble Theatre.
Gareth Davies is an actor and playwright based in Sydney. He has written and performed for the Black Lung Theatre (of which he’s a member), Belvoir St Theatre, the Malthouse and many more.
Gareth’s theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard (Melbourne Theatre Company); Th...
Erica joins Regina to talk about her play The Hero Leaves One Tooth described as a ferocious new satire set in a world where women have developed vagina dentata as a means of protection against sexual assault.
Erica is a director, writer, & producer of live performance.
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Bass Fam talks with Regina about his show Oracle and his life as a theatre maker.
Originally from a fine arts background, Bass is a passionate story teller at heart, a dreamer and an all-round creative with a colourful career spanning over a decade, with his work showcased around the world.
With sell-out Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide seasons, ORACLE returns to Sydney following its first Sydney season in August 2022 at Sydney Op...
James joins Regina to talk about Bell Shakespeare's lates production Romeo & Juliet in the new space and his role as Juliet's father.
James Evans is Associate Director at Bell Shakespeare. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney. He has directed a production of Much Ado About Nothing, the Julius Caesar national tour, previously directing productions o...
Anchuli joins Regina Botros backstage to talk about her motivation for bringing this story to the stage and how her career has developed as a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent.
As a playwright, King is interested in linguistic hybrids, digital cultures and globalization.
The Royal Court Theatre’s mainstage production of King’s play White Pearl marked her professional debut in May 2019,...
Two of the cast from Scenes From a Climate Era (Belvoir) join Regina Botros to talk about the state of our world and bringing the issues of today to the stage in this theatrical telling.
- Harriet Gordon-Anderson (Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ensemble Theatre’s Boxing Day BBQ)
- Abbie-Lee Lewis (Belvoir’s Wayside Bride, Counting and Cracking)
This aired on Wednesday 31st May, 2023 on 2SER - the opening ...
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