Writer’s Note: Fuck Your Funding
We open the show *this Wednesday* for five nights only. Ahead of opening, I thought I'd be a little indulgent and write my first ever writer's note.
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I'm hosting a free panel on the future of arts criticism!
Very keen to invite you along to 'Arbiters or Arbitrary', a panel featuring Jamie Tram, Bryget Chrisfield, and hosted by myself as part of Emerging Writers' Festival—this Thursday evening!
"Good criticism is a commitment to cultural leadership"
My contribution to a roundup of responses to the criticism of criticism in 2026, written for Guy Webster's 'This is not a review'.
When f*gs say ‘protect queer art,’ this show better be what they’re talking about
Finn McGrath, Johanna Cosgrove, Beat Boyz, Chelsea Heaney, Guneet Kaur, Lucas Meintjes, Conk, Handful of Bugs, and Hannah Camilleri at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
My Least Fave MICF Show :(((
Josh Thomas, Elf Lyons, Laura Davis, and Doug & Max—it's been a big couple days at the fest with some hits and one big miss.
Marathon, not a Sprint
I saw Mel McGlensey's Normal and Tricksy Collins' Assigned Magician at Birth the other day and I really desperately need you to know about them.
Two Queer Comedy Shows, Two Chappell Roan References
A brilliant night of queer comedy and theatre at The Motley Wherehaus seeing Jenna Suffern’s Lobster in a Glass and Yoz Mensch’s My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram
Mrs Lovett’s Little Devil and the Eighteen Lives
A diary of my first four show day at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, featuring peaches, pies, puns, and plenty of politics.
Gag City faces torrential rain (with Clowns & Animatronic Cats)
A night at the Motley Bauhaus catching Happy Birthday Taylah Whelan, Coco the Time Travelling Tart, and Caitlin Duff’s Freidah
Your visa to Gag City has been approved, chuckle f*cker
Introducing a pop-up newsletter full of my coverage of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026
Here's the theatre that reminded me why I love this art form so much
Out of the 234 shows I saw in 2025, these are the ones that left the biggest marks on me
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
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We get to decide how we live through it
Reviewing ‘Democracy Repair Services’ by Noemie Huttner-Koros, directed by Martha Latham, presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2025
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”Criticism”
An angry review of a bad review of one of my favourite shows at Melbourne Fringe
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FRINGEFRINGEFRINGE
One week down, two to go.
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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.
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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.
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.