Ben Brooker

Ben Brooker is a writer, editor, critic, essayist, and playwright. His work has been featured by Overland, New Matilda, New Internationalist, Australian Book Review, RealTime, and Daily Review. Ben was a featured playwright at the Emerging Writers’ Festival Adelaide Roadshow in September 2014, and at the National Play Festival in Adelaide in July 2015. His most recently produced work for the stage was the dystopian triptych This Storm (which he also directed), a critical and commercial success at the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival. He is currently an inaugural S_ydney Review of Books_ Emerging Critics Fellow.

Works By Ben Brooker

The Prompt of the Real
Glover uses the historical record to unpack the mythology that still surrounds the composition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, that is, Orwell’s heroic struggle against terminal illness to complete his magnum opus. Glover’s art lies in the careful curati...
13 Feb. 2018
The Golden Age
'Australia’s critical culture is a living culture, constituted moment-to-moment by many interdependent parts, the decline of which has been exaggerated.'
4 Apr. 2017
The Life In Them Words
‘Finely balanced and spiced with well-placed expletives, Patricia Cornelius talks as she writes. The poetic/profane dynamic that surges through her short, grungy plays about the Australian underclass is audible in her voice too. There is frequentl...
24 Nov. 2016
James Waites: A Man of the Theatre
Like Camus, whose striking good looks he shared, the Sydney theatre critic James Waites felt nowhere more at home than in the theatre.
13 Oct. 2016

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Ben Brooker

Works By Ben Brooker

The Prompt of the Real

The Golden Age

The Life In Them Words

James Waites: A Man of the Theatre