🌀 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.
Latest
🐷 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
🌀 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.
🧮 MICF ’25 in 9 charts
55 shows, 4 weeks, and 1 crepe. A data driven wrap up of my MICF 2025 viewing habits.
🌀 12: Not of End Times, But of Better Times
A bee landed on my balcony and I didn’t know what to do next.
🌀 11: One Big, Congealed, Frankensteinian Monster
Winter is coming and I’ve never felt more alive, or, another dozen reasons to love Comedy Festival
🌀 10: What To Abandon and When To Abandon It
Fourteen comedy festival reviews, reflections on queer ancestors, climate art, and the cruelty of AI, plus more investigations into using chatbots for theatre.
🌀 09: Engulfed by a Rising Tide
or, My Ideal Death and the Eight Different Immersive Performances I Wish I Could Participate In
🌀 08: Hopelessness, Helplessness, and the Ibises
On pessimism, endangered Ibises, turning your Instagram DMs into a performance venue, and why maybe we all just need to stop scrolling
🌀 07: Roll the Dice
Boring theatre about fire drills, exciting board games about 17th century queers, and the rise of digital extremism
🌀 06: A Repository of History
Reflections on archiving, whiteness, climate change theatre, and techno-mythology
🌀 05: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
It’s been a quiet week filled with planning and reading. I’ve been thinking about shows I saw as a teen, new ways to review theatre, disabled ecologies, Judith Butler, and how to build sustainable theatre businesses.
Reviews
🐼 If You Can, Have Everything Be Soft
A dialogic response to ‘Tiny, Fluffy, Sweet’ by Ran Chen, presented by Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA
In the Round
🌀 04: A Time for Remembrance and Repetition
A week of rewatching theatre, reflections on queer possibilities in the club, and the beginning of a plan for my year.
In the Round
🌀 03: I’d Love It If We Made It
A week of protest, queer art, and my first audition in four years.
In the Round
🌀 02: Taking a Punt
The world is burning but at least I got to stand at a confluence of the Birrarung and say ‘Wow, I love this city.’
Reviews
👹 MONSTER by Florian Wild
A monstrous exhumation of fear and divinity delivered with wit and charm
In the Round
🌀 01: Imposter Syndrome
The one in which I begin a newsletter
Writing
📈 A Running Tally of Every Show I've Seen in 2025
All of the shows, performances, and concerts I've seen in 2025 thus far. Refreshes with new shows automatically.
Writing
😮💨 238 Shows in 366 Days
An analysis of my theatre-watching habits in 2024 plus my top ten shows of the year
Producer
🔮 FUTURE
Co-creator — 2024 | Melbourne Fringe
Producer
⚔️ Beowulf: Reforged
Producer — 2024 | Waterside Metal Art
Reviews
🤣 MICF Review Roundup | Part Two
It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Reviews
🤡 MICF Review Roundup | Part One
It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Highlights so far include a musical about sperm donation, exquisite feminist clown, campy scifi standup and heaps more.