”Criticism”
An angry review of a bad review of one of my favourite shows at Melbourne Fringe
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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
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.
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12: Not of End Times, But of Better Times
A bee landed on my balcony and I didn’t know what to do next.
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11: One Big, Congealed, Frankensteinian Monster
Winter is coming and I’ve never felt more alive, or, another dozen reasons to love Comedy Festival
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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.
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09: Engulfed by a Rising Tide
or, My Ideal Death and the Eight Different Immersive Performances I Wish I Could Participate In
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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
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07: Roll the Dice
Boring theatre about fire drills, exciting board games about 17th century queers, and the rise of digital extremism
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06: A Repository of History
Reflections on archiving, whiteness, climate change theatre, and techno-mythology
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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.
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🐼 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
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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.
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03: I’d Love It If We Made It
A week of protest, queer art, and my first audition in four years.
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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.’