Difficult Conversations with Jane Hutcheon

Australia’s pre-eminent thinkers go head-to-head with celebrated journalist Jane Hutcheon to draw out the difficult conversations of our day.

Join us for an evening with two parts:

Part 1: Jane brings her unique approach to get to know each panellist, exploring the art of conversation and difficult topics from each of their perspectives.

Part 2: You, the audience submit your difficult questions to be wrestled with by the panel, like a collective advice columnist, under the guiding hand of Jane as conversation ringmaster.

BYO Difficult Conversations: Everything is on the table.

Jane Hutcheon is a writer/performer and the author of Rebel Talk, the Art of Powerful Conversations. A former foreign correspondent and TV presenter, she created the ABC’s acclaimed TV interview show One Plus One where she interviewed 500 amazing people over a decade. In 2019, Jane toured twenty-one theatres across Australia and New Zealand with actor Sir David Suchet in his retrospective show and discovered that live conversations in theatres produced a magical cocktail of electricity and intimacy.  So, join Jane and the panel, live in the theatre – the church of empathy and possibility! No topic is too difficult and no question too stupid to ask. 

Schedule of Panellists

Wed 11 Sep Debra Keenahan, Jeremiah Edagbami and Benjamin Law
Thu 12 Sep Debra Keenahan, Jeremiah Edagbami and Tim Dean

Design and illustration: Meiying Saw