New to Shakespeare Reloaded: An ecological Twelfth Night
Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 25.03.2024
Introducing: A Reimagined Midsummer Night's Dream: A Neurodiverse Re-telling
Written by Better Strangers Team in Performances and Productions | 03.02.2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Come You Spirits
Written by Claire Hansen & Lauren Weber in Performances and Productions | 16.01.2023
Australia boasts a range of outdoor Shakespeare theatre (for more, see Rosemary Gaby’s excellent book), but there is something a little different about Come You Spirits’ outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s D
Celebrating the Reflection-Poetry-Voice Imaginarium
Written by Better Strangers Team in Conference | 05.06.2022
Each year the Better Strangers project runs an Imaginarium for teachers hosted by our partner school Barker College (Sydney). An Imaginarium is a series of 2-hour workshops run over a number of weeks during the school term.
Review – Othello, Jimi Bani and Jason Klarwein, Queensland Theatre 12 November 2021
Written by Stephanie Schierhuber in Performances and Productions | 17.12.2021
What does Othello have to say to a modern audience?
Taking on Shakespeare: Celebrating a Better Strangers event with ACTATE
Written by Better Strangers Team in Pedagogy | 23.08.2021
On 19 August 2021 the Better Strangers team collaborated with the Australian Capital Territory Association for the Teaching of English (ACTATE) to deliver the online event 'Taking on Shakespeare'.
Celebrating the Reimagining Writing Imaginarium 2021
Written by The Better Strangers Team in Teaching Activities | 28.05.2021
Every year the Better Strangers project runs an Imaginarium for teachers hosted by our partner school Barker College (Sydney). An Imaginarium is a series of 2-hour workshops run over a number of weeks during the school term.
Publications of 2020
Written by Claire Hansen in Publications | 21.12.2020
2020 has certainly presented us with a range of challenges, including significant changes to the way we teach and learn.
New 'Teaching Shakespeare in Lockdown and The Gift of Education' Page!
Written by Better Strangers Team in Pedagogy | 26.06.2020
"The Wars of the Roses" trilogy begins in far north Queensland
Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 12.03.2020
The history of the Wars of the Roses is being played out on a north Queensland stage throughout 2020. The first production takes place in the midst of Townsville’s tropical summer - thick, wet air, lazy thunder, cloying heat.