A newsletter about theatre & utopia from Narrm's fat/queer culture critic

A long overdue review of my favourite show at Melbourne Fringe (and a working theory of what makes theatre, theatre)

A review of No Seasons by Oli Ayres, presented by Skint at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025

We Get to Decide How We Live Through It

Reviewing ‘Democracy Repair Services’ by Noemie Huttner-Koros, directed by Martha Latham, presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2025

”Criticism”

An angry review of a bad review of one of my favourite shows at Melbourne Fringe

FRINGEFRINGEFRINGE

One week down, two to go.

Things HAVE to Change Around Here! (clickbait title)

A review of a book I've half read (Theatre Blogging by Megan Vaughan) and some new year's resolutions on the future of this blog.

No Drama Drama Club

A community of Melbourne theatre lovers seeing & chatting about theatre together, masks required.

18: Your Feared Present, and Your Inevitable Future

The whirlwind of Fringe is kicking off, I’ve seen some excellent theatre which made me very angry (positively and negatively), and somehow I am the Vice President of the Green Room Awards Association (wth?!)

17: Lighting Fires in the Theatres

I turned 27, Lorde released a new album, and a friend gave me a free haircut. The world is as stubbornly cruel as ever, and I’ve also started soaking chickpeas overnight.

16: Messy, Bodily, Persistent

On smelling like sh*t, the death of reading, militaristic theatre, and Nathan Fielder’s ever-brilliant ‘The Rehearsal’.

15: The Other Name for Disappointment

I’m late to the Andrea Long Chu fan club, currently obsessed with the ‘poetic web,’ and really hecking worried about the state of the world. How about you?

14: Are We Destined to be Aching for More?

So much good theatre, some shockingly bad theatre, and assorted musings on what it means to criticise theatre.

Lipstick on a (Fat) Pig

10 Reasons Why I’m Bloody Tired, or a Personal Response to ‘Fat Pig’ at fortyfivedownstairs | Presented by Forest Collective and BK Opera