Hilary Bell, playwright extraordinaire and all-round theatre guru, talks about her role as associate writer on Paul Capsis’s heart-warming one-man show, Angela’s Kitchen. Read more…

Part 2 of the interview with Tim Rogers and Bojana Novakovic as they were preparing for the Mary Mac dress rehearsal to chat about the show, about being a rock god and about working together. Read more…

Rick Viede, Griffin Award winning playwright, has been up in Brisbane with the cast and crew of A Hoax in their first weeks of rehearsal.

It’s been an exhilarating and hilarious time up in Brisneyland. The final stages of a new play’s development is a heady time. Read more…

The Griffins caught up with Tim Rogers and Bojana Novakovic as they were preparing for the Mary Mac dress rehearsal to chat about the show, about being a rock god and about working together. Read more…

Porn.Cake director Shannon Murphy has been taking Berlin by storm with performance group SandS through the hourglass’s production of the The One-Eyed Man is King for the Schaubühne Festival of International New Drama in Berlin. This week, Shannon gives us a glimpse into her time in Berlin. Read more…

As we gear up to welcome the scandalous Mary MacLane to our stage, Designer Anna Cordingley takes us through her process of design.

Mine is a very early-heavy process; I love the research and developmental phase of a project. And The Story of Mary Maclane By Herself was marvelous in that we were afforded several periods of intense work peppered with lengthy gaps… a perfect situation for letting design ideas germinate. For having them, testing them, throwing out those which grow stale over time and improving those which remain. Read more…

Nothing like a provocative title! Now that I’ve got your attention, let me explain.

Well, of course you are a writer – you spend your time putting words on paper. You share with poets, short-story writers and novelists other professional aspects, such as working alone in a room for months on end; perhaps a stationery fetish; certainly a habit of ostensibly going for walks, but in fact busily processing ideas. Maybe you even have a love of wordplay, a hatred of seeing language mangled and abused. Read more…

Why, in the theatre arts, do attractive actors and directors get all the attention?  We are making a Pinterest board devoted to redressing the problem, it’s called Hot Playwrights.  We’d be super grateful if you could contribute to this project. To take a look at the list so far, find us on Pinterest or alternatively send your hotties to info@griffintheatre.com.

Thanks for playing.

As you amble out of Kings Cross Station towards Griffin, you may spy (actually, it’s pretty hard to miss) the HUGE billboard which has been transformed into an explosive piece of work by two of Australia’s coolest and most colourful street artists – Beastman and Jumbo. Read more…

So you’ve finally got an interview for that perfect job – it’s time to prep some perfect answers. There are always a few sticky questions, like this age-old nasty: “Tell us what your faults are.”

If only I’d had Mary MacLane’s advice on honesty, last time I was sitting in the sweaty chair. Here’s what she had to say: Read more…