Ten shows to see at Melbourne Festival

As the Melbourne Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary, we select our program highlights for 2015, among them iconic voices Toni Morrison, Patti Smith and David Malouf.
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Nathan O’Keefe in Masquerade. Photo by Brett Boardman.

First staged in 1986, Melbourne Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015 with a broad-ranging program curated by Artistic Director Josephine Ridge. For her third and final festival, Ridge has placed greater emphasis on conversation and engagement, including a series of forums exploring the history, impact and evolution of the festival itself, a half-day forum on the art of adaptation, a Directors’ Lab attended by theatre-makers from across the country, and a live reading of 1984 at Parliament House to accompany the staging of a new UK production of George Orwell’s prescient and important novel.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts