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
Ryan Hamilton
Award-winning fat/queer theatre-maker, critic, and creative producer with a background in digital marketing.
We Get to Decide How We Live Through It
Reviewing āDemocracy Repair Servicesā by Noemie Huttner-Koros, directed by Martha Latham, presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2025
āCriticismā
An angry review of a bad review of one of my favourite shows at Melbourne Fringe
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, Iāve 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 Iāve 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 Fielderās ever-brilliant āThe Rehearsalā.
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15: The Other Name for Disappointment
Iām late to the Andrea Long Chu fan club, currently obsessed with the āpoetic web,ā 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 Iām Bloody Tired, or a Personal Response to āFat Pigā at fortyfivedownstairs | Presented by Forest Collective and BK Opera