Across the Aisle
Across the Aisle
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It’s Fringe Mania! Phil and I saw a whole bunch of shows at the best festival of the year and it felt good. Really good. We watched young people sweat and work and contemplate late capitalism from their treadmills in Ponycam’s Burnout Paradise.
In Intermission we chat the sublime A Dodgeball Named Desire by The Bloomshed and Fringe Theatre Winner Someday We’ll Find It. Our second act takes us to Meat Market where we saw the lyrical and accomplished work Staunch ASF.
In Coming Soon we chat Little One’s Theatre swan song Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, (now over) Sydney Theatre Company’s The Visitors and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Red Stitch.
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Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest
- Cover image of Staunch ASF by Alliah Nival
Make it snappy. We experienced The Crocodile by the formidable Spinning Plates Co. and went deep on fame and all it takes to keep this arts economy going, our second show is the magical Yuldea by Bangarra. In Intermission we went deeper on the ethics of zoos and our love of Chinese gardens. In Coming Soon we recommend The Visitors by Victorian Opera, the Fringe encore season at Geelong Arts Centre and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.
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Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest
- Cover image Kate Longley
Welcome to our MIFF 2023 episode! We took the opportunity to hibernate over winter and do some MIFF online films covering the mind boggling "quiet part out loud" selection process for the Prague Academy of Art in ART TALENT SHOW, and the documentary CASA SUSANNA about a trans retreat of the same name in the 1960's Catskills.
In Intermission we talk our MIFF methods, the ruthless (and mean) shitcanning of gay romcom Red, White and Royal Blue. And in Coming Soon it's Fringe Mania with our second lot of recommendations which are now all on our Instagram.
Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest
- Cover image unknown
HELLO PIGGIES. We get down and dirty with The Bloomshed and their meltingly good Animal Farm. In Intermission we discuss the Venn overlap between this and Barbie. Our second act takes us to the Malthouse for This is Living - Ash Flanders ode to chronically ill queers who want to run away to the country (Carla was ATTACKED). And in Coming Soon we recommend the Pulse program at Melbourne Fringe and the REWIRE program at Geelong Arts Centre. This was a truly joyous return to form, and felt like the before time with a little more existential death rattle thrown in. Our favourite! Long live queer irony as the pathway to pleasure and salvation.
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Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest
- Cover image Gregory Lorenzutti