Across the Aisle

Carla and Philip go to North Melbourne Town Hall for the Festival of Live Art's "Town Hall Ticket," and also Her Majesty's Theatre for the Australian musical "Georgy Girl."

Philip and Carla talk about Art Centre Melbourne's reboot of Melbourne Theatre Company's "North by Northwest," then Malthouse Theatre's production of "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Plus, at intermission, the Netflix series "Love" and this year's (terrible) White Night.

Philip and Carla discuss "Elegy" at Gasworks Arts Park for Midsumma, then dive deep with Meow Meow's "The Little Mermaid". At intermission there is much discussion about Our Cate, both the ACMI exhibition and Carol.

Philip and Carla discuss "The Medea Project" at Brunswick Art Space, then give a preview of the 2016 seasons of several Melbourne theatre companies.

We discuss Nicola Gunn's latest production "Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster" plus Little Ones Theatre's silent film style retelling of Bram Stoker's "Dracula."

In this Melbourne Festival episode, Carla and Philip overview the festival with a special focus on two productions: Desdemona at Southbank Theatre and The Bacchae at Theatre Works.

We discuss Detroit written by Lisa D'Amour and produced by Red Stitch Actors Theatre. We also cover Sophocles' Antigone adapted by Jane Montgomery Griffiths and produced by Malthouse Theatre.

In our second episode we discuss I Am a Miracle written by Declan Greene and produced by The Malthouse Theatre. We also cover Picnic written by Marieke Hardy and produced by KAGE Theatre.

In our first episode we discuss Melbourne Theatre Company's Neon Season - the "Festival of Independent Theatre". We cover Gary Abrahams/Dirty Pretty Things "The Lonely Wolf", Patricia Cornelius' "SHIT" and Elbow Rooms "We Get It".