Writing | Grace Davidson-Lynch

Dramaturgical Musings

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IWD 2024 - What I Learned About Art from the Women I Love

Lesson One - Nana When we were kids, we used to stay with my Nana at her house in Newcastle during the school holidays. She still lives...

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Feb 29, 20248 min read

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...

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Dec 1, 20238 min read

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

Jun 29, 20238 min read

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...

Education

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Mar 31, 20235 min read

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...

Playwriting

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Feb 28, 20235 min read

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...

Education

Grace Davidson-Lynch

May 31, 20225 min read

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

May 2, 20225 min read

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...

Playwriting

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Mar 31, 20225 min read

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...

Playwriting

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Feb 24, 20225 min read

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...

Education

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Jan 25, 20226 min read