Sunday, 20 March 2022

Geelong ensemble win one of the world’s richest theatre prizes

Back to Back, an ensemble of disabled actors, wins DK2.5m Ibsen prize for their ‘exciting, unsettling and thought-provoking’ work

A small Australian theatre company made up of neurodiverse and disabled actors has won one of the world’s richest theatre prizes, the DK2.5m (AU$384,000) Ibsen award.

Back to Back, which was established in 1987 and is based in Geelong, were announced as the winners of the biennial prize on Sunday night in Norway. The pioneering theatre company is the first Australian recipient of the award, dubbed “the Nobel prize for theatre”, which goes to an individual or company “that has brought new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theatre”.

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