”Criticism”
An angry review of a bad review of one of my favourite shows at Melbourne Fringe
Ryan Hamilton
Award-winning fat/queer theatre-maker, critic, and creative producer with a background in digital marketing.
FRINGEFRINGEFRINGE
One week down, two to go.
Writing
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.
Projects
🎀 No Drama Drama Club
A community of Melbourne theatre lovers seeing & chatting about theatre together, masks required.
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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?!)
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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.
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16: Messy, Bodily, Persistent
On smelling like sh*t, the death of reading, militaristic theatre, and Nathan Fielder’s ever-brilliant ‘The Rehearsal’.
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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?
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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.
Writing
🐷 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
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13: I Want a Future That Lives up to My Past
A whirlwind of a month filled with COVID, drowned iPhones, Green Room awards, and one of my absolute favourite series of art prints.
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🧮 MICF ’25 in 9 charts
55 shows, 4 weeks, and 1 crepe. A data driven wrap up of my MICF 2025 viewing habits.