Catherine Pryor

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Catherine Pryor |Timothy James

When Cree-Salteaux theatre-maker Margo Kane started trying out for theatre gigs in Canada in the 1970s, there were so few roles for Indigenous actors, she ended up auditioning for the same part more than once. That all changed when she wrote her own one woman show, Moonlodge that became a classic of Canadian theatre. She's in Australia to show her new one-woman show, and reflect on her career.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Catherine Pryor |Riley Mellis

Playwright Andrea James has researched a story from the 1840s, in which colonial newspapers suggested that a 'white woman' – maybe the survivor of a shipwreck – had been taken captive by Gunaikurnai people in what is now eastern Victoria. Andrea interrogates the legend in a riveting new play called The Black Woman of Gippsland. In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two gruelling years in Reading Gaol, for being homosexual.