The Melbourne Fringe Festival has just kicked off, which means that there are over four hundred and fifty events vying for your attention.

One of them stars this episode's guests Hannah Camilleri and Oliver Coleman. It’s a play called Prune which is a comedy about a woman who won’t get out of the bath.

Both Hannah and Oliver have been nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, so it’s guaranteed to be funny*

Get your tickets to Prune:

https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/prune/

Get your tickets to Oliver's show Seeing What Happens:

https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/oliver-coleman-seeing-what-happens-an-improvised-stand-up-comedy-show/

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Real life couple Hannah Waterman and Huw Higginson are performing as husband and wife in the moving play about love, loss and laughter Colder Than Here at the Ensemble theatre.

On this episode of the Quiz, they do exceptionally well and take some fascinating trips down memory lane... and all sorts of other lanes too!

Get tickets to Colder Than Here here:

https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/colder-than-here/

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Julia Zemiro has been on this podcast many times before, but this time she’s brought along Susie Youssef to partner with. Which is kind of what she’s done with her tv show Great Australian Walks on SBS. She was the solo host of the first season, but now for the second season, Julis is sharing the hosting duties with Susie and Gina Chick.

Great Australian Walks is a great show, and Julia and Susie are great people. This episode is an utter delight!

Watch Great Australian Walks here:

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/great-australian-walks/season-2

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It’s no secret that this podcast skews towards the big cities of this country, mostly those on the Eastern Seaboard. In fact, most podcasts in general favour the big cities. Kirsten Diprose and Damian Callinan are doing their bit to change that with their brand new podcast: Town Criers. She's a journalist and and he's a comedian and together they are sharing the driving on a road trip through rural Australia, to reveal everything worth celebrating about small country towns. 

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Joining John to answer the questions on this episode of The Saturday Quiz is the director Bert LaBonté and one of the actors Ras-Samuel from the Pulitzer Prize winning play Topdog/Underdog, which is playing right now in the Lawler at Melbourne Theatre Company’s Southbank Theatre. The Suzan-Lori Parks play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two down-on-their-luck brothers wrestling with the realities of the American Dream. 

The first play by an African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it is playing right now until the 21st of September.

Get your tickets to Topdog/Underdog here:

https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2024/topdogunderdog/

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Alexei Tolioppoulos and Lauren Bonner have both recently joined a real-life pub trivia team. But that doesn't mean they get all the questions correct on this episode.

Alexei learns that no matter how good you are at your expert category, if the questions don't tend that way, you're in for a world of pain.

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If you're a reader or listener of any of the Schwartz Media publications, you're sure to have encountered Erik Jensen and Michael Williams. Erik is the Editor in Chief at Schwartz and Michael is the Editor of The Monthly magazine, as well as hosting the podcast Read This. They're both intimidatingly intelligent, so it's no surprise that they do very well at the quiz on this episode.

Apologies for some of the sound issues on this episode - my microphone seems to have been playing up.

My thanks as ever to Cindy MacDonald for writing the questions in the quiz. Play along at home by going to https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/ where you can find every quiz from the paper all the way back to issue number one.

This podcast is recorded on the lands belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I pay my respects to their elders past and present and acknowledge their traditions of sharing knowledge and stories for millennia on this land.

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Runt is a brand new family movie in cinemas around the country from September 19, but if you’re in Melbourne, you can see it at MIFF on the 25th of August.

Written by Craig Silvey, based on his book of the same name and directed by John Sheedy, Runt tells the story of Annie Shearer and her best friend, a stray dog called Runt. When her family's farm comes under threat from drought and a local landowner, Annie concocts a plan to save it: by putting Runt’s herding talents to good use in the Agility Course Grand Championships at the Krumpets Dog Show in London.

Starring Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber, Deborah Mailman, Jack Thompson and Tom Budge, and introducing the wonderful Lily LaTorre as Annie.

Runt also stars the guest on this episode, Matt Day, who, despite not finishing high school, does very well all by himself at the quiz.

Get tickets to the final MIFF screening of Runt here:

https://miff.com.au/program/film/runt

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The Melbourne International Film Festival has just opened!

On this episode of the quiz, the guests are MIFF programmer Kate Jinx and pop culture author and critic Brodie Lancaster.

Jinx's MIFF list:

Matt and Mara 

https://miff.com.au/program/film/matt-and-mara

Welcome Space Brothers

https://miff.com.au/program/film/welcome-space-brothers

The World According to Allee Willis

https://miff.com.au/program/film/the-world-according-to-allee-willis

Janet Planet

https://miff.com.au/program/film/janet-planet

Universal Language

https://miff.com.au/program/film/universal-language

Consuming Culture Talk with Brodie:

https://miff.com.au/program/film/consuming-culture

Trivia with Alexei:

https://miff.com.au/program/film/miff-trivia-presented-by-umbrella-entertainment#top

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Gabbi Bolt and Maverick Newman are both extraordinarily multi-talented performers; They sing, they dance, they act, they even play classical piano in the hilarious parody musical Murder For Two, which is an outrageous blend of music, mayhem, and murder. In this hilarious 90-minute show, two performers play 13 roles – not to mention the piano – in a rip-roaring parody of classic murder mysteries.

After twice selling out the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, this show is heading to Parramatta Riverside Theatre on the 9th and 10th of August, before a season in the Fairfax Studio in the Melbourne Arts Centre from the 15th to the 25th.

Get your tickets here:

https://riversideparramatta.com.au/whats-on/murder-for-two/

Or here for the season in Melbourne:

https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2024/comedy/murder-for-two

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