Art Smitten

Gill and Daniel chat to Sammy J about this new solo show  Hero Complex , playing in the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the Victoria Hotel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Piece for person and Ghetto Blaster is an experimental dance work by Nicola Gunn. This work has had seasons all across Australia and overseas. It is a story of a man and woman and a duck. Piece for person and Ghetto Blaster goes for about and hour and a half and Nicola is on stage the entire time, constantly dancing and telling the story. Nicola is an absolutely phenomenal performer, just like not...

Waiting in dark anticipation in La Mama theatre with foreboding music in the background, you could sense the experience of the director, Lloyd Jones, in non-text based performance theatre. Windows, written by Ayse Bayra-moglu, is a new work which has undertaken some swift development from play-reading to fully mounted performance in the last year. It still retains the casual essence of play-readin...

Rebi, Jim and Molly interview Rachael Beesley a solo violinist and musical director, performing in Italian Romance, an upcoming concert from the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, taking place at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall of the Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) on Friday March 24 and the City Recital Hall, Angel Place in Sydney on Saturday 25 March (both at 7.30pm) featuring Beethoven and M...

Adalya and Daniel chat to Jessica Wilson about her new theatre show Passenger , which takes place on us a bus tour, departing from Footscray Community Arts Centre Thursday-Saturday and from the Arts Centre on Sunday. The show runs from March 23-26 as part of the Women of the World Festival Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adalya and Daniel chat to Miranda Picton-Warlow, manager of the VCE Season of Excellence and Sia Smyth, the curator of  Top Designs  2017, which will be on display at Melbourne Museum from 18 March – 16 July 2017. Click here to listen to our interview with Cameron Moorhouse, one of the artists from  Top Arts 2017. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben interviews film director Rebecca Zlotowski about her latest feature, Planetarium, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Natalie Portman, which is being screened in the Alliance Française French Film Festival. Click here to listen to our interview with the festival's Artistic Director, Philippe Platel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gill interviews Megan Patty, the organiser of the Melbourne Art Book Fair, which runs from March 16-19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Stratton is a pioneer in both critiquing films, and Australian films themselves. If you ever want to be a critic, you should take a good look at some of Stratton’s reviews, as they emphasis what is important about filmmaking, and how to perfectly break it down, dissect it, and give a professional opinion. David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, reveals a lot more about the man behind a criti...

Molly and Rebi interview Susan Provan, the director of the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, running from March 29 - April 23. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Logan is the brand new marvel film under the banner of 20th Century Fox, adding to the long running series of X-Men Films. Logan concludes the trilogy of Wolverine, the two previous films, X-Men Origins: Wolverine , and The Wolverine , being mildly successful, but for the most part not critically rated very highly. This all changes with Logan , which has been met with massive praise, easily trumpi...

The Dancer (or La danseuse) is the feature debut of French director Stéphanie Di Giusto starring Soko as the revolutionary dance pioneer Loie Fuller. To start with, this film is beautiful. In the locations, in the cinematography, in the dance - the film itself captures and mirrors the longing of the protagonist Loie Fuller for the beauty she is searching for in dance. The film opens in the...

Hamish, Christina and Rebi interview the new Artistic Director of the Alliance Française French Film Festival, running in Melbourne from March 8-30. Click here to listen to Ben's interview with Rebecca Zlotowski, director of  Planetarium , one of the films in the festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel reviews La Mama Theatre's production  The Fever , by Wallace Shawn (of  Toy Story and  Princess Bride fame). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hamish and Christian interview singer-actor Rhonda Burchmore, who’ll be performing in Morning Melodies at the Arts Centre of April 3, at 11am & 1.30pm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats with artist Tristan Meecham, the ‘Marathon Man’ playing a starring role in the Fun Run at the Arts Centre on Sunday March 12 at 4.30pm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebi, Molly and Jim chat with the members of Open Spatial Workshop, an artist group who's current exhibiton, Converging in time is on now at the Monash University Museum of Art until April 8. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Molly, Jim and Rebi chat with Amy Boyd, manager of the Vivien Anderson Gallery, about the 2017 Women's Show, featuring 20 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander female artists, including Maree Clarke. The exhibiton is running until March 25. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebi and Molly chat to Brunswick Music Festival programmer and performing musician Chelsea Wilson. The festival runs over 2 weeks from Sunday March 5-19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sandra Thibodeaux’s The Age of Bones is an ambitious, playfully political Indonesian-Australian coproduction now being hosted by La Mama in Carlton.  For a play that extols (and some might say preaches) the virtues of working together across national and natural borders, it’s very pleasing to see how the production itself has exemplified this cultural harmony at every stage of its...

The Homosexuals, Or Faggots, is a new stage production at the Malthouse written by local theatre maker Declan Green, of Sisters Grimm, and directed by Griffin Theatre Companies artistic director Lee Lewis. I’ve been a fan of everything I’ve seen of Declan Greens works, and The Homosexuals, Or Faggots is no exception. It is a contemporary farce, set in a luxury apartment in Sydney owned...

Smithers reviews actor turned writer Camilla Blunden's solo show All This Living . Click here to listen to our interview with Camilla. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Molly interviews Nella Themelios, one of the curators of  High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion , an exhibition that's on at RMIT Design Hub in Carlton until March 18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aquarius  is a three-part feature film depicting the life and struggles of its central character Clara, an ageing music critic played by Brazilian actress and former Golden Globe nominee Sonia Braga. The film opens in 1980, where Clara lives with her family in Aquarius, an elegant nineteen forties apartment on the beachfront of Recife, a seaside town on Brazil’s east coast. During a fam...

The one person show is an exhilarating performance for both player and audience. For one, the performer is completely alone on the stage and must accept the accompanying pressures and risks. There is nobody to pick up the slack if the performer forgets a line, bumbles a scene, loses energy or has an attack of self doubt. If the audience reacts poorly to a line, or to a scene, or an act, there is n...