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A discussion about writing Australia onto the stage in 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Katherine Thomson talks about our relationship to land and history in Wonderlands.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Ray Lawler talks about becoming a playwright in Finding A Way.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Jack Hibberd discusses the existential clown in A Stretch of the Imagination.

As 'Waiting For Godot' starts its West End run, staff at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket face up to new challenges.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Jack Hibberd talks about bringing down the fourth wall in Dimboola.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Debra Oswald talks about the relationship of father and daughter in Mr Bailey's Minder.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Debra Oswald explores the ugly duckling story underlying Dags.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Matt Cameron discusses the dark side of suburbia in Ruby Moon.

Five Australian playwrights talk candidly with Dr Tess Brady about their best known plays. In this episode Matt Cameron explores the nature of indifference in Tear from a Glass Eye.

This insightful eight-part documentary series covers six exciting months in the life of London's Theatre Royal Haymarket from all angles, in particular the arrival of a new artistic director - Sean Mathias, and the lead-up to his production of Waiting for Godot, starring Ian McKellen - which recently toured Australia to rave reviews.

This latest film from Academy Award-nominated director Christine Choy (Who Killed Vincent Chin?), tells the story of Larry and Trudy Long, a popular husband-and-wife nightclub act of the '40s and '50s.

Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic tells the story of a grand opera about the atomic bomb. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars over the course of a year as they work to forge the tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer into a music drama like no other the strange and beautiful Doctor Atomic.

It has been 20 years since John Bell founded his groundbreaking theatre group, Bell Shakespeare. ABC2 Live celebrates this important occasion by bringing you one of Shakespeare's greatest works, King Lear, exclusively recorded by the ABC at Melbourne's Arts Centre.

In a special tribute hosted by Virginia Trioli, ABC TV will remember the life and work of one of Australia's greatest playwrights, Alex Buzo. The Sydney-based playwright and author died in August 2006 after a long fight with cancer.

A provocative and hilarious look at five Arab-American comedians working the stand-up circuit in the wake of 9-11. When people of Middle Eastern origin were advised to lay low, these men and women all chose to stand up ... and crack jokes.