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'Described by Robert Reid as 'one of the most unforgettable actors we've seen',1 Yoni Prior has been a performance-maker and champion of the Australian independent theatre scene for over thirty years. After Gilgul disbanded, Yoni took up the helm as Head of the Drama Department at Deakin University (then Rusden State College), working as an actor trainer, director, researcher, and creating a number of digital theatre collaborations between Deakin University, the University of Amsterdam, the British Museum and Cambridge University. Matt Delbridge, Head of Theatre at VCA and funnily also a student of Yoni's and a member of Gilgul, was kind enough to lend us his office to do this interview as it was too noisy in the staff room and too cold out in the park. [...]that was an amazing time where Lyndal Jones had just started as director of student theatre, and introduced experimental work, street theatre, political theatre to the existing mix of plays and musicals. [...]there was this amazing collision of dance and impulse-based training that kept returning me to my body, back to my impulses in spaces where thinking was just not going to cut it.' (Publication abstract)
