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Michael Cathcart

Melbourne
As seen in: ABC Radio Australia, ABC News (Australia), ABC Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), The Spokesman-Review, The ABR Podcast, The Stage Show
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Best of The Stage Show

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By Michael Cathcart
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Verified
The Stage Show with Michael Cathcart has wound up after eight years on air. In this highlights of 2025 episode: Playwright Andrea James researched a story from the 1840s, in which colonial newspapers suggested that a 'white woman' – maybe the survivor of a shipwreck – had been taken captive by Gunaikurnai people in what is now eastern Victoria. Andrea interrogates the legend in a riveting play called The Black Woman of Gippsland. First broadcast April 29, 2025.
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Best of The Stage Show: How Anais Mitchell wrote Hadestown

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By Michael Cathcart
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Verified
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold in the hit folk musical  Hadestown. It's won Tonys, Grammys and is now in Australia. We speak to the singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell, who wrote Hadestown as a concept album, before touring it around in an old bus and then turning it into a remarkable stage show with the Broadway director Rachael Chavkin. First broadcast March 18. Back stage... The make up artist.
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Best of The Stage Show: Robyn Nevin and Patricia Cornelius - ABC listen

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By Michael Cathcart
| The Stage Show
In 2025 Australian theatre legend Robyn Nevin directed And Then There Were None, a classic murder mystery by Agatha Christie. She talks to Michael about the darkness in Christie's stories, her view on changing acting styles and how Robyn finds her 'inner clown'. Playwright Patricia Cornelius explains why she had five actors playing the world's most famous hacker — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in her 2025 play TRUTH. She's joined by director Susie Dee.
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