Theatre First

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 234You Look Like Your Father (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia)Based on a true story; an honest, raw and unapologetically relatable tale of fatherhood.Bouncing back and forth over three decades, this new play follows two generations of the same family line, as all involved face the challenges and exhilaration that parenthood brings. Breaking away from the magical view that Hollywood portrays of having children, these two entwined stories do not hold back at the hardships, internal struggles, relationship strains, and demons that this big life change can have.Whilst big softie Zac has been unhealthily obsessed with not becoming his father, the self-assured George does not hesitate in speeding towards his own dad’s mistakes each day. But with both of them now facing the reality that fatherhood could be around the corner for them, the scars their childhood left with them are torn wide open.From the mind of prolific British playwright Kieran Gould-Dowen, this story is scarily familiar to all.For more information visit https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/you-look-like-your-father/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 233Ulster American (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)A searing comedy on show business post-#MeToo that brilliantly captures the confusion of ‘woke’ men trying to mansplain their positions of power.A talented young female writer, an A-list actor and an ambitious West End director meet to discuss the most important new play of the decade – if they can only agree on what it’s about! Fragile egos, the fault lines of modern politics and the all-pervasive power of Hollywood threatens to derail the whole project.For more information visit https://redstitch.net/gallery/ulster-american/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #ulsteramerican  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 232Sunday in the Park with George (Watch This, Melbourne, Australia)In Paris, 1884, George Seurat strives to transform the way we see. While he sketches in a park, preoccupied with composition, balance, light and harmony, his subjects are busy wrestling with life in a changing world - in particular, his muse and mistress, Dot, who feels both alive and invisible within his gaze. A century on, another visual artist - also named George - faces a similar dilemma as he attempts to forge a new direction amidst the pressure of high-end commissions and the merciless glare of New York critics.Inspired by Seurat's Impressionist painting, 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte', Sunday in the Park with George is a masterpiece in its own right. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine bring the past into the present tense, with poignant and painful truths about life, love, the creation of art and the struggle to be seen. One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study won a Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for an astounding ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical. For more information visit https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/other-companies/sunday-in-the-park-with-george/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 231Australian Realness (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)The summery embrace of an Aussie family Christmas. Familiar characters pop the cork on mid-range bubbly for a raucous celebration of festive traditions. But, all is not well.As adult kids regress to the parental homestead, Mum and Dad’s apparent wealth is waning. They’ve sold the Audi. There are fewer presents. They’re even renting out the back shed to supplement their income.There’s a bunch of yobbos in the backyard!Following a Christmas dinner invitation, ocker antics start to infect the house. First, it’s the tracky dacks. Then, it’s the durries. Before you know it, the working class are treading their unsophistication all over the polished floorboards … or so it may seem.Zoey Dawson pries open social divides with incisive comedy and exacting satire. Directed by Janice Muller, the cast members shine twice, each playing two characters—one bourgeois, one bogan.Australian Realness fast-forwards from the dawn of the Howard era to revel in the shattering of expectations and artificial class divisions.For more information visit https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/australian-realness Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 230Let Men Tremble (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia)Contemporary and experimental theatre company The Danger Ensemble return to Theatre Works following their hugely divisive 2018 production The Hamlet Apocalypse.Inspired by The Scarlet Letter, a 17th-century puritan romance, Let Men Tremble throws colonial concepts of sin, sex and the role of women in society into a modern-day crucible.Lead by award-winning Director/Designer Steven Mitchell Wright the cast of thirteen take a piece of seminal American literature and transform it into cuttingly-contemporary Australian theatre.For more information visit http://www.theatreworks.org.au/program/let-men-tremble/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 229Ghost Quartet (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia)Music, Lyrics, and Text by DAVE MALLOY (creator of the hit Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812)A musical to die for…Drawing inspiration from murder ballads and The Twilight Zone, GHOST QUARTET elegantly blurs the line between a contemporary concept album and traditional musical theatre. Four musicians gather to drink whiskey and share centuries-old stories about love, death, and betrayal, exposing mysterious and dangerous details from their own past along the way. Don’t miss this sleek and sinister song cycle by DAVE MALLOY (creator of the hit Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812).For more information visit http://www.gasworks.org.au/event/ghost-quartet/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #gasworks #ghostquartet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 228Sensory Decadence (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia)The experiencing self lives each moment. The remembering self constructs the story afterwards.Human beings are naturally inclined to value remembering over experiencing. But what would happen if the Experiencing Self were triumphant? In a vibrant celebration of sensation, five circus artists pursue the ecstatic, immediate completeness of experience, through exhilarating and contemporary circus.This Winter One Fell Swoop Circus present the premiere season of Sensory Decadence by bringing their trademark skill set and style to bear on what Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman calls the two selves; the Experiencing Self (that lives each moment) and the Remembering Self (that constructs the story afterwards). Drawing on influences spanning from ASMR to the surrealist world of readymades, Sensory Decadence invites Melbourne audiences to explore a unique alternative world.For more information visit  http://www.gasworks.org.au/event/sensory-decadence/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 227Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)After premiering in Sydney, Roald Dahl’s delicious tale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is now playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne and is on sale in Brisbane.It’s a delectable treat featuring songs from the original film, including Pure Imagination, The Candy Man and I’ve Got a Golden Ticket, alongside a brand new, toe-tapping and ear-tickling new score.Willy Wonka is opening his marvelous and mysterious chocolate factory to a lucky few. That includes Charlie Bucket, whose bland life is about to sweeten with colour and confection beyond his wildest dreams. He and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a mesmerising joyride through a world of pure imagination.For more information visit  https://charliethemusical.com.au/tickets/melbourne/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #charlie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 226Golden Shield (MTC, Melbourne, Australia)A riveting new play filled with disarming humour, Golden Shield sees trailblazing writer Anchuli Felicia King smash the personal against the political in a globetrotting thriller.Tenacious young lawyer Julie Chen (Fiona Choi) brings her sister Eva (Jing-Xuan Chan) on board as a translator in a risky legal battle with international ramifications. Leading a class action exposing an American tech giant’s involvement with the Chinese government’s internet firewall, Golden Shield, they must put their differences aside to confront large-scale censorship, corporate greed, and their own complicated past.For more information visit  https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/golden-shield/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #goldenshield #mtc  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 225Solomon’s Secrets (Saltpillar Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)Solomons’ Secrets focuses on a run-of-the-mill Melbourne family the Solomons, including parents Helen and Clive and their children Josh, Roz, Anna and Jen as they navigate life’s big issues: relationships, fertility, parenthood, aging, sex, love, and death. With humour and pathos, the play examines the lengths people go to protect the ones they love and the price we pay for withholding the truth.For more information visit  https://www.saltpillar.org.au/next-productionTheatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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