Grace Davidson-Lynch
A Lesson in Listening
If I think about it for a moment too long, I feel a red flash of shame on the back of my neck. The shame I felt as a child if I was...
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Grace Davidson-Lynch
Writing - Dramaturgy - Education
Dramaturgical Musings
Join me as I explore horror, movies, video games, education, writing and, occasionally, even theatre.
You can learn more about my experience as a dramaturg and playwright here.
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Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Jun 29
- 8 min
Are Rude Audiences Ruining Theatre?
The theatre is a bastion of ideological discourse. It is a force for change and for good, asking more of its patrons than other more...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Mar 31
- 5 min
Everybody Should Be a Writer
I’ve written before about the ways that theatre education is beneficial for young people beyond basic theatre training – there is plenty...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Feb 28
- 5 min
The curse of sensitivity
Do you remember the first bad review you received? I mean review very loosely. Your art probably started getting reviewed in primary...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- May 31, 2022
- 5 min
Getting Comfy with Dramaturgy
This year, I tutored my first university dramaturgy course. It’s always daunting stepping into a new job, but with these students I was...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- May 2, 2022
- 5 min
When is it art, and when is it true crime?
In the late 1940s, in a suburb of Washington, DC, a 13-year-old boy began to hear strange noises in his family home that no one else...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Mar 31, 2022
- 5 min
Ignorance is Bliss - the whiteness of Australian theatre
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to attend the inaugural Australian Playwrights’ Festival, organised by Currency Press to celebrate...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Feb 24, 2022
- 5 min
Thoughts on a first play
Hydrarchos is a play I wrote. It debuted at NIDA’s Festival of Emerging Artists on the 23rd of February. And it was designed to be...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Jan 25, 2022
- 6 min
I should have become a teacher (but I didn't)
Australia, like many other countries, is about to be plunged into a teacher shortage. This week, I've seen article after article...
Grace Davidson-Lynch
- Oct 31, 2021
- 5 min
Halloween 2021- Pepper's Ghosts and the horror of existential anxiety
Halloween originates in the ancient Celtic celebration of Samhain. At the end of autumn, the recently deceased would begin their journey...
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