Malthouse Theatre casts a long Shadow

The company’s Indigenous retelling of King Lear will tour to London thanks to $50,000 from the Victorian Government.

21 Jul 2015

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

Malthouse Theatre’s The Shadow King, 2013. Photo by Jeff Busby.

First presented at the 2013 Melbourne Festival, Malthouse Theatre’s The Shadow King will have a 2016 season at London’s Barbican Centre, it was announced today.

Victoria’s Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, confirmed funding of $50,000 to support the award-winning production’s international premiere.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts