🌀 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
🌀 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.
🐼 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
🌀 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.
🌀 03: I’d Love It If We Made It
A week of protest, queer art, and my first audition in four years.
🌀 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.’
👹 MONSTER by Florian Wild
A monstrous exhumation of fear and divinity delivered with wit and charm
🌀 01: Imposter Syndrome
The one in which I begin a newsletter
📈 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.
😮💨 238 Shows in 366 Days
An analysis of my theatre-watching habits in 2024 plus my top ten shows of the year
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🔮 FUTURE
Co-creator — 2024 | Melbourne Fringe
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⚔️ Beowulf: Reforged
Producer — 2024 | Waterside Metal Art
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🤣 MICF Review Roundup | Part Two
It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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🤡 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.
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🐰 Every Lovely Terrible Thing by Adam Fawcett
An ambitious exploration of the costs of keeping secrets and the price we pay to tell them.
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📰 Broadly Relevant
Co-host — 2024 | Podcast
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👰 ALTAR by Em Tambree
A melancholic hour of reconciliation and reckoning: with the past, the stories we tell about ourselves, and queer futures.
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🔪 The Long Pigs by WE3
The Long Pigs is a tight 60 minute clowning spectacular, which takes the art form into an excitingly macabre world featuring some of Australia’s best clowns.
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🎙️ Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson
A magnetic performance, sumptuous design, and a carefully constructed narrative come together to create an electrifying insight into the life of one of Jazz's greats.
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👻 How Do I Let You Die? by Michele Lee
How Do I Let You Die? is an insightful journey into the cultural and spiritual limbo of a second generation immigrant
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🐺 Hour of the Wolf by Matthew Lutton & Keziah Warner
Hour of the Wolf takes all of the idiosyncrasies which made Malthouse's last try at immersive theatre so charming and engrossing, and replaces them with a docile and synthetic attempt at recreating the magic
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💐 Orlando by Rachel Lewindon and Willow Sizer
This electro-folk musical adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most well-known works is filled with so much joy and wit that I couldn't help but fall in love.