Theatre First

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).TrusteesIn a major policy shift, the government has announced a moratorium on funding for performing arts organisations Australia-wide. The Trustees of Melbourne’s fictional Lone Pine Theatre Company gather to assess the damage—but what dark clouds might rise from the ashes?Amid the chatter and outrage and belligerence of public conversation lies a void: the Great Australian Silence. What are we afraid of hearing? Who are we afraid will say it? Political theatre outlaws Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of Belarus Free Theatre have conceived an explosive new work with some extraordinary Australian performers: Tammy Anderson, Natasha Herbert, Niharika Senapati, Hazem Shammas, and Daniel Schlusser.Who is meant to have an opinion in modern Australia? Maybe it’s best you don’t answer that.For more information visit  https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/trustees Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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 #trustees 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).AmbushedAmbushed is a new Australian musical.At the centre of this poignant, comical and uplifting musical is Angela.Angela is a single mother with two children.Her daughter Kat is a confident, strident young woman starting university whilst her son Tom is deeply reflective and unsure of the world outside the home.Angela feels she met her soulmate in high school and has never shaken off the belief that if she looks to the universe for signs, then the universe will bring him back to her.For more information visit  https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/ambushed/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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 #ambushed 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).Ich Nibber DibberNatalie Rose, Mish Grigor and Zoë Coombs Marr sure talk a lot of shit. First loves, bowel movements, birthing moans and the global financial crisis: they tackle the messy issues, and it’s all on tape.post are an acclaimed collective known for fiercely intelligent and entertaining theatre. In this colossal act of self-examination, Nat, Mish and Zoë fast-forward through 10 years of camaraderie and captured key moments, embarrassing, hilarious and profound.In a single sprawling conversation, the three post women come of age and a decade of history is distilled to gleeful incomprehensibility and wild revelations.For more information visit  https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/ich-nibber-dibber Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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).Alone OutsideFollowing their success with A Prudent Man in 2016, Lab Kelpie return to Fringe with this powerful one-woman play by West Australian playwright Liz Newell that explores the conflict, awkwardness and nostalgia of returning home.Having just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, Daphne reluctantly returns from The Big Smoke to the tiny country town she grew up in to visit her ailing grandmother.Experiencing run-ins with a revolving door of people she hasn’t seen in years, Daphne eventually reconnects with former best-mate Aidan, sharing a long-held secret that finally brings her the sense of clarity she hadn’t realised she’d been missing.A meditation on the concept of 'home' that examines the places and people that continually call us back – whether we like it or not – Alone Outside is a moving and ultimately uplifting look at the fraught paths we walk towards self-acceptance.For more information visit  https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/alone-outside/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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).Unsolicited MaleYou’re working late. Your boss offers to take you to dinner on the way home. What do you do?Q44 Theatre Company present 'Unsolicited Male' as part of this year's Melbourne Fringe. In part inspired by the #MeToo movement, the play explores the dynamics of power in the workplace. Instead of Hollywood moguls, the protagonists are people like you and I, yet the dynamics are not all that far removed from those of the casting couch.“I think the play is not only pertinent at this point in time but I am particularly interested in it’s perspective. It presents a very nuanced look at the psychology underpinning our attitudes around relationships between men and women.” – Suzanne Heywood, DirectorFor more information visit  https://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/events-exhibitions/melbourne-fringe-unsolicited-male Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#unsolicitedmale #theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Age Of Stephen John Peter Farnham is arguably one of Australia's most skilled, successful & adored male pop/ rock singers of all time. Stephen Valeri... is most definitely not. BUT that won't stop him from attempting to convince you that he and Farnsey actually have more in common than first meets the eye.With a little 'Help' and 'Comic Conversation', this Farnsey Fanatic is ready to set 'Hearts on Fire' and cram as many hits from Australia's favourite son as humanly possible into 60 minutes. 'Take The Pressure Down' with #FarnseyFacts, high belting choruses, epic sing-a-longs and a make-shift budget bagpipe solo to end all others.If you're a Farnsey Fanatic like Stephen, get ready for a night of unforgettable music, stories and laughs in a loving tribute to the greatest voice our country has ever produced. If you cringe at the opening chords of 'You're The Voice', probably best to sit this one out.For more information visit  https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/age-of-stephen/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#ageofstephen #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).Lottie In The Late Afternoon (The KIN Collective, Melbourne, Australia)In a tiny house on the edge of a cliff, two couples try to have a relaxing weekend away because EVERYTHING IS AMAZING AND UNDER CONTROL… ISN’T IT?Comedy legend, Marg Downey (Fast Forward, Kath & Kim), directs a star-studded cast in this disturbing and hilarious new play with a Seinfeld meets Samuel Beckett feel to it. Featuring The KIN Collective’s Michala Banas (MTC’s The Odd Couple, Upper Middle Bogan), Ally Fowler (Shrine, Wentworth), Laura Maitland (Yes, Prime Minister, The Lonesome West) and Linc Hasler (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Glimpse), Lottie in the Late Afternoon is a play about sadness, art and the dangers of nostalgia in Trump’s America. The universal themes of gender expectations, financial instability, robots taking all the jobs, embarrassing accidents, and how much we really know when we can’t google it, makes this a play for the ages.Critically acclaimed Aussie, LA-based playwright and screenwriter Amelia Roper brings her hilarious new comedy home to Melbourne for its world premiere. Between her work on Netflix’s GLOW, and plays Zürich and She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, Amelia has become one to watch in the American and Australian entertainment scenes.For more information visit  https://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/wp2016/event/lottie-in-the-late-afternoon/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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).Tomfoolery (Gasworks, Melbourne)Shake, rattle and roll your funny bones along to see Susan, Michael, Sean and Peter sing over 20 hilarious, ghoulish Lehrer songs including POISONING PIGEONS IN THE PARK, THE MASOCHISM TANGO and THE VATICAN RAG in brainy, laugh like drainy,cabaret-ny ‘TOMFOOLERY’!Directed by Theresa Borg.Starring Susan-Ann Walker, Michael Dalton, Sean Weatherly and Peter Hurley.Lighting & Sound by Bob WeatherlyFor more information visit www.loadedproductions.com.au Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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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The Dumb Waiter (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia)Starring One of Australia’s favourite actors and Gold Logie Award Winner, John Wood as Ben and Don Bridges in the role of Gus.In a dank and dark basement room, Gus and Ben wait for their next hit job. They’ve been working together for quite some time and have their routine down to an efficient art-form. But there’s something different about this job. As increasingly bizarre orders begin to be sent down via the basement’s dumbwaiter and the tension between the two men builds, it becomes clear that things are not as they appear.One of Harold Pinter’s most famous works, The Dumb Waiter is a darkly funny and terrifically suspenseful play that reveals Pinter’s skill for crafting unique and engaging theatre. Taut and tense, The Dumb Waiter continues to offer new insights into human nature and the way in which the individual is complicit in society’s darker impulses.Directed by Greenroom Nominee, Paul WatsonFor more details, visit:  https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/the-dumb-waiter/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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).Blasted  (A Malthouse Theatre Production, Melbourne, Australia)A gin-swigging journalist and his young lover check into an anonymous hotel room. When a soldier and a war zone explode through the bathroom window, things become barbaric.This was the debut script of in-your-face playwright prodigy Sarah Kane. Her prescient dissection of our response to violence was heralded as ‘depraved’ by some, ‘tender’ by others. So ignited the polarising firestorm of Kane’s blazing career.Starring David Woods (Ganesh Versus the Third Reich), Eloise Mignon (The Wild Duck), Fayssal Bazzi (The Government Inspector) and Directed by Anne-Louise Sarks (The Testament of Mary) Blasted will give Malthouse Theatre audiences the chance to experience the power and controversy of Sarah Kane, and the play that shook the world.For more details, visit:  https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/blasted Theatre First RSS feed:   https://audioboom.com/channels/4839371.rssSubscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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 #malthouse #malthousetheatre #blasted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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