Madeleine Swain

Originally from England where she trained as an actor, Madeleine Swain has over 30 years’ experience as a writer, editor and film reviewer in print, television, radio and online. She is on the Board of JOY Media and is a Life Member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

Madeleine Swain's Latest Articles

The best Australian plays of the 21st century.
Opinions & Analysis

The Melbourne Theatre Company is too woke? Go back to sleep

Nobody benefits from disparaging words and lazy critique – certainly not those of us working in the arts.

Madeleine Swain

Dec 19, 2025
Alison Bell and Fayssal Bazzi in Much Ado About Nothing. Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti / MTC.
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Much Ado About Nothing review: belly laughs and barbs from the Bard

Shakespeare’s mid-career comedy is given a gleeful airing in the MTC’s first new staging of the work in 30 years.

Madeleine Swain

Nov 20, 2025
A profile of a woman with short silver hair, Lynette Ramsay Silver, author of Sister Bullwinkel.
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Sister Bullwinkel review: a biography by Lynette Ramsay Silver tackles the truth after 80 years

Lynette Ramsay Silver’s account about Sister Bullwinkel, Australia's wartime nurse, makes for grim reading, but we shouldn’t look away.

Madeleine Swain

Aug 13, 2025
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