William Shakespeare

With Oscar winning director Chloe Zhao headed to Australia for a one-night-only in-conversation Vivid Sydney event at The State Theatre, we pay tribute to the quiet powerhouse behind Nomadland, The Rider,

… worth a visit (NT stuff almost always is), and it has some fine fresh takes, but somehow it doesn’t score a hit, a palpable hit.

… a dazzling fantasy epic with visuals, music, and pathos sharpened to a keen edge.

“I think I have a very loose relationship with accuracy!” laughs Fiona Crombie, the Australian production designer whose new project Hamnet is gaining huge attention in the awards season. Adapted

Along with millions of readers, actress Jessie Buckley was enchanted by Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 best-seller about William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes, their son Hamnet dying, aged 11, from the

… a finely calibrated work that will move and please audiences.

… there’s more talk than action and the language is beautifully and often cleverly crafted.

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals) adapts Maggie O'Farrell's book of the same name, a fictional account of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes' grief after the death of their

The “lost decade”

… profoundly moving performances from real people who never thought they’d be out in the world, much less, on the world-stage.