The theatre of Daniel Schlusser
Over the past 20 years, Daniel Schlusser has directed ground-breaking theatre productions in Australia and internationally and is known as a restlessly experimental artist of the stage. He is one of Australia’s most influential directors and an acclaimed performer, writer, choreographer and dramaturg.
In 2006, Daniel Schlusser returned to his home-town of Melbourne, Australia after an overseas sojourn and began to create what has become a distinct phase of significant work for the theatre. This website describes the work as it is being developed and the ensemble that Schlusser is gathering around him. The theoretical function – an attempt to trace lines of development is here joined with the practical function of disseminating the work to a wider audience, attracting national and international opportunities for touring and binding the rationale of the ensemble with it’s practice in a public forum.
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I wouldn’t say Schlusser adapts classics so much as blows them up: this work is much more than rewriting. Using a practice he calls “hyper-realism”, he makes theatre out of classic texts that is not so much a textual exploration as a haunting, a demonstration of how these works live in our collective unconscious.
- Alison Croggon, Theatrenotes