Interviews and essays on Theatre Notes, 2004-2012 Interviews with playwrights Daniel Keene Lally Katz Marius von Mayenburg Franz Xaver Kroetz Ariel Dorfman Fin Kennedy Essays: Australian theatre | Culture | Criticism | Miscellaneous Australian theatre Patrick White, playwright Olive as Tragic Hero: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll How Australian is it? Australian Theatre and Nationalism (Overland Journal) Trapped by the Past The Australian Theatre Forum, plus a meditation on innovation In Which Ms TN Discourses At Length Plays - second class literature? The Trouble with Craven The Birthday Party Revisited On Ecstasy: Barrie Kosky Playwright as Social Symptom: on Hilary Glow's Power Plays Sunday Sermon: thoughts arising from the STC Actors Company Contemporary Australian Drama The Williamson Syndrome Culture The Imaginative Life and the Social Responsibility of Writers The Poetic of Theatre National Cultural Policy preamble A divagation  A Matter of Art: Henson and Mills Gender and all that Hope and so on On art, children and scandal Getting heard: the realpolitick of arts advocacy The Writer, the Theatre, the Play Theatre of Difference, by Daniel Keene Small Companies and Community Theatre, by Daniel Keene The Irresponsible Mr Barker Criticism Acceptance speech for the Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year prize (pdf) The return of the amateur critic A divagation on criticism The Rise of the Amateur On turning into a Crrritic On being libelled Shall I compare thee…? On making comparisons A confession of sorts The First Post Miscellaneous Helplessness, grief, Agency: A Personal Note Launch Speech: Phillip Salom's Keepers Urgencies Nothing at all to do with theatre