Play Reading | Queer Canon – FAQT – Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

Name: Play Reading | Queer Canon – FAQT
Start: 2024-08-25T14:30:00+10:00
End: 2024-08-25T16:00:00+10:00
Location: Heritage Reading Room

Play Reading | Queer Canon – FAQT

August 25 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

$15 – $30

Heritage Reading Room

Queer Canon - Hosted by John Kachoyan

Until comparatively recently, live performance work and story telling on the Australian stage was still rare and scandalous.

That doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. From 1800s male impersonator Effie Fellows to modern classics of the Australian stage like Love by Patricia Cornelius, queer theatre has of course always been here.

Theatre Director and historian John Kachoyan, together with local actors present and discuss readings of key scenes from important queer Australian plays including Michael Gow’s Away and Peter Kenna’s A Hard God.

This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.