Susie Dee on a lifetime spent staging the revolution: ‘Theatre can shift consciousness’

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The Australian director has presented her vital works around the globe for four decades, but she always comes back to Melbourne

Today, Dee and Cornelius are nearly synonymous as a theatre-making duo, making urgent productions which highlight Australia’s working class, giving voice to characters rarely highlighted on Australian stages. Savages, which won four 2013 Green Room awards, looked at the violent masculinity among four men on a cruise ship; writing about 2016’s Animal, the Age

It was Cornelius who first suggested Dee should direct one of her plays a few years later. It was also Cornelius who invited Dee to work at Melbourne Workers, a company originally focused on performing Australian stories in workplaces during lunch hours, “not just in theatres for middle-class people”.

Cornelius says Dee makes work that “takes your breath away. Never sentimental. Only vital, full of an amazing life force.” Nicci Wilks and Susie Dee performing in Caravan, a Malthouse show directed by Dee for Melbourne festival 2018.It is difficult to define Dee’s output. She has worked with dozens of playwrights and hundreds of artists, shifting between theatre spaces and site-specific works; between tiny, independent spaces like La Mama and TheatreWorks, and big stages like Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse, where she directedBut there are constants.

 

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