Werewolf plays at the 2026 Brisbane Festival. Photo: Lewis Ferris.
A life-or-death threat. Lockdown. Paranoia and suspicion infecting a community. A reminder that working together is the strongest defence that humanity has.
As fellow Werewolf deviser and performer Stella Reid tells ArtsHub, ‘Part of our fascination with those things is because we live in this post-truth world, in particular after the damaging effects of information post-Covid. And I think we’re pretty interested in how we believe something and our perception of something and our biases.’
Sarah Ward is a film and television critic; arts, entertainment and culture editor and journalist; and film festival organiser. She is the film and TV critic for ABC radio Gold Coast, the Australia-based film critic for Screen International, and a critic and member at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sarah’s background also spans stints as film and television editor at both Concrete Playground and Variety Australia, and as Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz critic and writer. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birth.Movies.Death, SBS, SBS Movies, Flicks, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Junkee, FilmInk, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine and Screen Education, the City of Gold Coast, the World Film Locations book series and more.
