Taking over vacant spaces across Newcastle once more, the ninth annual Crack Theatre Festival returns in October.
It presents a range of new experimental performances from across Australia including theatre, visual arts, dance, circus, comedy and much more. Presented as part of the independent arts festival, This Is Not Art (TiNA), the Crack Theatre Festival provides an avenue for both emerging and established artists to present innovative works in non-traditional theatre spaces, all free of charge to audiences.
A diverse mix of performers testing original material, touring collaborative works and experimenting with new ideas, the festival program will feature 50 artists presenting 29 works over the four days of the long weekend, and will also include professional development workshops, master classes, talks and artistic community-building opportunities. Among the highlights are a forum facilitated by culture writer Jane Howard on the politics of preserving performance through reviews, documentation and script publishing; and a workshop for writers led by theatre radical Rowan McDonald exploring Image Theatre.
