Backstage

Van Badham joins Regina Backstage to talk about A Fool In Love for Sydney Theatre Company. Badham said, “The greatest Australian virtue is our readiness to laugh at ourselves. What an honour it is to let loose the local sense of humour on a classic farce like Lope de Vega’s La dama boba, in which an aspirational scheme to marry off an heiress comes so spectacularly undone. Van Badham is a writer,...

Anita Heiss joins Regina to talk about her adaptation of the play TIDDAS - on at Belvoir theatre. Tiddas- Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books, lovers, and the jagged bits of life in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other every...

Leigh Sachwitz is the founder and leading creative director of  flora&faunavisions. She is an award winning creator and visionary, and the mastermind behind the content that will be displayed across 23 LED screens for Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle . Her work spans across immersive experiences, exhibitions, music stages, theatre and opera performances, fashion shows and art installations. Le...

Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, theatre maker and researcher.  He joins Regina Botros to talk about the operatic odyssey of a lifetime; the site-specific pastiche opera TRACK WORKS  will take centre stage at Sydney’s iconic Mortuary Station in all its historical splendour (November 21 – December 19).    

Tom Conroy joins Regina Botros to dive into The Master and the Margarita on at Belvoir Theatre. Tom’s credits for Belvoir include Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Find out more here .

Jane joins Regina to talk Malvolia (yes a twist on the role) in Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare. Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities. Twelfth Night opens at Syd...

Thomas Campbell joins Regina Botros to talk through the inspiration for Betty Is a Butcher for Sydney Fringe. Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death.  A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria A Siren Theatre Production , directed by Kate Jane Gaul.  

Chris Mitchell joins Regina Botros to see the spectacle of this Sydney Fringe show at the Speigeltent. The Marvellous Elephant man the Musical. The story of the “Elephant Man” has been told in many books and in the famous David Lynch film starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. The co-director of this production Chris Mitchell takes us into this new musical production, the inspiration and the expl...

Kerri Glasscock Sydney Fringe Festival Director joins Regina to talk about what's hot this Sydney Fringe Festival. So much to see - catch the hot tips - here!   A month of delicious, unfiltered, utterly unbelievable performance performances, where literally anything could happen.  Spread across every inch of the city, from Parramatta to Hurstville, the Western Harbour, the CBD, and the Inner-East...

Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events.   Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London.  THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison. Subsequent investigat...

Debra Oswald joins Regina to talk about tow shows playing at the Ensemble Theatre, plus how she came to writing from a young age. Debra Oswald is screenwriter, playwright and fiction author. She was the co-creator and head writer for series 1-5 of the award-winning Channel Ten series Offspring. Debra won the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for the Offspring telemovie script and won the 2014 AACT...

Gareth joins Regina to talk about his life from wanting to be a philosopher to the stage and his current production performing in Benefactors at Ensemble Theatre. Gareth Davies is an actor and playwright based in Sydney. He has written and performed for the Black Lung Theatre (of which he’s a member), Belvoir St Theatre, the Malthouse and many more. Gareth’s theatre credits include The Cherry Orch...

Erica joins Regina to talk about her play The Hero Leaves One Tooth described as a ferocious new satire set in a world where women have developed vagina dentata as a means of protection against sexual assault.    Erica is a director, writer, & producer of live performance. She believes that making art is a compulsion. She is passionate about holding space for artists to develop their practice...

Bass Fam talks with Regina about his show Oracle and his life as a theatre maker. Originally from a fine arts background, Bass is a passionate story teller at heart, a dreamer and an all-round creative with a colourful career spanning over a decade, with his work showcased around the world. With sell-out Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide seasons, ORACLE returns to Sydney following its first Sydney...

  James joins Regina to talk about Bell Shakespeare's lates production Romeo & Juliet in the new space and his role as Juliet's father. James Evans is Associate Director at Bell Shakespeare. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney. He has directed a production of Much Ado About Nothing, the Julius Caesar national tour,...

Anchuli joins Regina Botros backstage to talk about her motivation for bringing this story to the stage and how her career has developed as a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent. As a playwright, King is interested in linguistic hybrids, digital cultures and globalization. The Royal Court Theatre’s mainstage production of King’s play White Pearl marked...

Two of the cast from Scenes From a Climate Era ( Belvoir ) join Regina Botros to talk about the state of our world and bringing the issues of today to the stage in this theatrical telling. Harriet Gordon-Anderson (Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ensemble Theatre’s Boxing Day BBQ) Abbie-Lee Lewis (Belvoir’s Wayside Bride, Counting and Cracking) This aired on Wednesday 31st May, 2023 on 2SER - the openin...

Eloise joins Regina Botros to share with us the birth of this new production. Eloise is an award-winning writer, actor, producer and voice artist. She completed a Bachelor of Media in Writing at Macquarie University and received a scholarship to study in London. She has worked extensively as an actor in theatre and she works consistently on screen, most recently in Colin from Accounts. She has wor...

Vashti goes backstage with Regina Botros to talk about her life as a writer and performer. Vashti Hughes is a writer / actor and originally trained at UWS Nepean, graduating with a BA in Performance. Vashti has written and self produced works that are based in Sydney’s local history. Currently Vashti is performing in Kate’s final home, a site specific piece “Dinner with Kate Leigh the Gangster Que...

On this episode of Back stage Regina Botros is joined by Trisha Starrs to talk about:- 

jess Fuchs joins Regina Botros to talk comedy, improv and how to be chill! Jess has traveled the world as an improviser and stand up comedian. She has graced the stages, clubs, theaters and dirtiest pubs around the globe, including Gotham Comedy Club in New York, Second City Toronto, The Comedy Store Sydney, to name a few.

Lisa Fa’alafi, joins Regina Botros to talk about Hot Brown Honey's return of THE REMIX> Lisa is the fierce femme leader of the multi-award-winning collective of global First Nations women, Hot Brown Honey which will be returning to the Sydney Opera House after eight years in May as part of its UnWrapped season. Hot Brown Honey – THE REMIX  (4-13 May) it will dance the line between theatrical and s...

Rachael joins Regina Botros to share her beginnings as a creative to the current Marrugeku show at the Carriageworks. Racheal grew up around activism and protests with her parents in New Zealand and has forged a career as a director and dramaturg of trans-disciplinary and intercultural dance theatre as well as a dance and performance scholar and researcher. She specialises in creating platforms fo...

SOLOMON THOMAS joins Regina Botros BACKSTAGE. He is a theatre maker and performer and is a core member of re:group performance collective, He explores the intersection between the physical and digital in theatre, experimenting with how theatre and film can co-exist in a live context. He works as a performer, puppeteer, theatre maker and video designer and is driven by how these practices meet form...

Regina Botros reviews Julia at the Sydney theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House.     JULIA By Joanna Murray-Smith Directed by Sarah Goodes Not now, not ever In 2012, Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world.  Now, ten years later, one of Australia’s most esteemed and celebrated playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, brings the human...