By Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA)
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
In our most stressful episode to date, Callum is joined by the podcast's Prod Manager, Madeleine Burgess to compare 2017's 'Lady Bird' with the reigning King of the Ring 'From Dusk Till Dawn'. Will 'Lady Bird' take home the glory, or will it lose and take Maddie with it? Will this show even have a Prod Manager for the next episode? Listen to find out.
Madeleine is an actor, writer, intern to the Artistic Director of MUST and occasional production manager (really only for From MUST Till Dawn, a choice she is very much reconsidering after finally watching the movie). At MUST Madeleine has performed in R+J (MSC), DNC and MUSTBOP (she loves an acronym) and she is currently facilitating the From Scratch monologue writing project. After a brief but tumultuous dalliance with Law, Madeleine has landed on a much more sensible career in the arts. She is convinced her Literature degree will come in handy for something more than the Saturday quiz one day. Her status as a serial over-committer (including Screen Acting classes at NIDA Melbourne - who let her in there?), means Madeleine is often ‘tired’ and ‘cold’, nothing an oat chai latte can’t fix. Keep an eye out for Madeleine performing in ‘The Archies of Asa Graves’ a podcast by Shrew Loose Productions, later in the year.
We're back from break and we got a real (St. Elmo's) fire of an episode for you. It's a true clash of the titans as we see 80's romance drama 'St. Elmo's Fire' face off against the seven time defending world champion film 'From Dusk Till Dawn'. Which shlock will rise to the top?
L.E.A.F Festival: https://locomotion.productions/leaf
Sarah Matthews
Sarah’s tried a lot of things around MUST with varying levels of success. She loves acting, producing, writing, and CabFest-ing, but while she greatly enjoyed pretending to rig lights, she gently suggests nobody asks her for tech help again. She’s currently working on a very fun outdoor festival scheduled for mid-October, so if you would like to create art with your friends in a beautiful Monash-adjacent park, check out @locomotion.red !
When she’s not doing theatre things, Sarah’s probably eating a cheese toastie, talking about how much she loves teaching, or buying fun earrings online (she’s very sad Callum’s the only person who saw how groovy her podcast earrings were).
Sarah is very enthusiastic about most things. She’s not sure she can include ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ in “most things”.
In the first minisode, Callum reviews the pilot episode of the 2014 'From Dusk Till Dawn' television series all by himself. Will this adaptation do justice to its source material?
In an alternate dimension, this is the most popular and revered film podcast in the world. Sadly that's not the universe we live in. But that shouldn't stop you from listening to this week's episode were the cerebral sci-fi horror film 'Coherence' does it's best to out-weird and out-confuse the champion of strange twists 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.
Bernd Faveere, at a young age, decided to well and truly commit to the phrase “jack of all trades”, not realising the second half of the saying is “master of none”. Despite this startling realisation, Bernd has had a jolly good time dipping his toes in all things MUST and MSC the last couple of years, performing in MUSTBOP: The Pride of Africa (2015), MSC’s Twelfth Night (2016), and the 2018 O-Show Back to the First Year, directing The Importance of Being Earnest (2018), doing assistant marketing for Disinhibition (2019) with a sprinkle of CABFEST 2019 hosting, all while studying a double degree in Commerce and Arts with majors in Economics, Literature, and Theatre, respectively. Quite the smorgasbord, he knows. When he’s not found doing these things, he can be found telling people to watch the film Coherence. No seriously, go watch the film.
In the first episode of 2021, Callum is joined by ex-Muster and film and theatre extraordinaire Daniel Lammin to see if Ingmar Bergman's 1966 surrealist thriller masterpiece 'Persona' can stand against the film titan that is 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.
Daniel Lammin is a graduate of Directing at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and the Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University. He received a Green Room nomination in 2014 for ‘Master Class' (Left Bauer Productions). His other directing credits include ‘Awakening’ (MUST/fortyfivedownstairs), ‘Sneakyville’ (Before Shot), ‘Strangers in Between’ (Cameron Lukey/Don’t Be Down Productions), ‘Ryan’ (La Mama), ‘Columbine’ (MUST), ‘The Cutting Boys’ (La Mama) and ‘The Laramie Project’ (MUST). Daniel is also a film critic and writer for the Australian film website SWITCH (www.maketheswitch.com.au) and host of the Disney history podcast ‘Ink & Paint: A Journey Through the Disney Animated Classics’ (www.inkandpaint.com.au).
Children's classic against vampire slash flick. See how well Barbie fairs against the horde before we're sued by Mattel.
Emma's Insta - https://www.instagram.com/eb.artistry/?hl=en
Planes, Trains and Hauntomobiles. How will Hayao Miyazaki (first) final masterpiece 'The Wind Rises' fair against 'From Dusk Till Dawn'?
A Recorded Companion: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/a-recorded-companion/
From Dusk Till Dawn Youtube Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAGxtCDiZb8
Emlyn Sugden
Emlyn Sugden is a friend, buddy and pal of Callum’s. OH, and he’s an actor at MUST, having performed in Holloway: A Brand New Musical, Slaughterhouse Five and of course, the odyssey that was, Furr on The Forwardline. Apart from finishing a degree in theatre, performance and musical theatre, during lockdown Emlyn has watched a lot of films. Perhaps, one would argue, not enough. Having watched such classics as From Dusk Till Dawn to The Wind Rises, back to From Dusk Till Dawn again, Emlyn still, to this day thinks, “watching bad movies is not fun”. A polarising opinion that got him onto this prestigious podcast.
It’s old, it’s arty and it’s France. But can ‘Playtime’ go toe-to-toe with ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’?
See the summary here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LU-oOBgWVgxzWvcXeEPOkBZ-Nc_kR_0HbiYjAvNbSCg/edit?usp=sharing
StrangeKit Website: https://www.strangekit.com/
HOLESP@CE Fringe: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/holespce/
A Recorded Companion: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/a-recorded-companion/
Savanna Wegman
Savanna Wegman is Co-Director of STRANGEkit performance art collective and in her third year with MUST. She has delved into the directing and visual design guilds of theatrical creation and has worked on End Transmission (2018), Monash Shakespeare Company’s R&J (2019) and Do Not Collect $200 (2019). Through her creations, Sav is currently learning more about 3D art/design, alternate realities and cowboys. She is reading books about love, feminist science fiction and talking ferrets, and in lockdown is also practicing her soup making skills (current speciality = minestrone). At uni Sav studies theatre and performance, literature and digital humanities in a Bachelor of Arts and enjoys listing things in threes maybe a bit too much. She’s keen to discuss all things Playtime and Tarantino and expose some rare angry thoughts in this podcast which is very unlike Sav.
Celina Mack
Celina is a Narrm based performance artist and director. Celina has been performing regularly for many years, with experience acting and creating in plays, musical theatre, short films and immersive theatrical events. Celina has completed performance training across multiple institutions including Meisner Melbourne and VCA. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre and Performance at Monash University, also minoring in Film and Television Studies. Since beginning at Monash, Celina has realised her overwhelming passions for experimental performance and video art, collaborative devising and directing! This is where Celina first met Savanna Wegman and they began trialling their techniques for the absurd, co-directing small projects and experimental endurance/installation art pieces. Celina is excited to continue making artistic works which can be described as absurdist, surrealist, structuralist, mundane, affective or even daringly meaningless, with the aim of combining many artistic mediums and questioning any need for their separation.
Vampire's on bobsleds? What a crazy idea! Let's see how far we can take it in this week's episode when Cat Duff and I compare Disney's "Cool Runnings" with the irreverent "From Dusk Till Dawn"
Caitlin Duff cannot stay in one lane. She’s a menace. Currently co-producing the Phone-It-In Film Festival at MUST, she has been a performer in MUSTBOP Cosmic Wars (2018), Slaughterhouse Five (2019), sound designer for Do Not Collect $200 (2019), and co-director for the (n)O-Show (2020, before it was unfortunately cancelled). She has also been a performer, writer, and lighting designer on various projects outside of MUST. She’s honestly really bad at saying no. She is good at making people laugh. Most of her work focuses on comedy or even finding levity for catharsis in dramatic work. As a film studies minor with one unit from the course under her belt, she has the authority needed to rant, rave, and ridicule any film with a perfect air of unearned superiority. She froths heated discourse on the lack of female, queer, and bipoc representation in auteur theory. She learnt what auteur theory is yesterday.
Links Mentioned:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/02/19/jamaicans-are-bobsledding-again-but-cool-runnings-is-still-racist/
In the first episode, I'll be joined by Gregor Campbell to see if every 15-year old's favourite movie "Fight Club" can hold it's own against cult classic "From Dusk Till Dawn"
Gregor Campbell - The current director of MUSTBOP, Fur on the Forward Line, Gregor Campbell is in his fourth year at MUST (he promises he will leave eventually). He had been involved as an actor with MUST in Climbers, Do Not Collect $200 and the Time Travel O-show and has been involved both on and off stage with the Monash Shakespeare Company. A Law and Politics student Gregor is known for his “Hot Takes” (Campbell, 2020) and being ‘that guy at the party’ (Everyone else, 2020) so he was incredibly excited when his MUSTBOP writer (second plug) Callum invited him to discuss From Dust till Dawn so long as he could talk about Fight Club a movie which to no one’s surprise Gregor has opinions on.
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The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.