Art Smitten

Experience. Strength. Hope. These words don’t carry much meaning by themselves, but together in the context of Melbourne Playback Theatre Company’s latest performance SticksnStones of the Birrarung Marr - Stories of First Nations Place Making, Culture and Legacy , they provided a pivotal focus for the evening’s event. SticksnStones was the second public event by Melbourne Playbac...

Adalya reviews The Wheeler Centre’s author talk event with Hanya Yanagihara  in conversation with Jason Steger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was fantastic to hear that The Arts Centre’s season of Sugarland is being targeted at VCE students, but don’t let that make you think that the play itself is mostly for high school students. Fraser Corfiel and David Page’s debut production of Rachel Coopes and Wayne Blair‘s latest theatrical work is one of those stories of adolescence that engages teenagers both past and...

Hosts Lauren and Andrew are joined in the studio with Caitlin, a jazz student at the Australian National University School of Music. She shares her story of how she feel in love with jazz and the, perhaps surprisingly, vibrant jazz scene in Taiwan.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When I heard Renee Geyer was a famous international jazz singer I was thrilled to get the chance to go and see her sing. As I am an amateur singer with jazzy vocals myself it felt like it was a match made to be. However Renee Geyer was different to my initial assumptions. If I were to liken the whole experience to dating a person you met online, Renee Geyer would be a date you hade hopes for, only...

Rachel attended the opening night of Malthouse Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams' classic 'memory play',  The Glass Menagerie .  The Glass Menagerie is being performed on 18 th May to 5 th June at the Merlyn Theatre in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Lauren and Andrew are joined on the line with actress ROSE RILEY.   She is playing the role of Laura Wingfield  in the Malthouse Theatre’s production of The Glass Menagerie .   The Glass Menagerie is being performed on 18 th May to 5 th June at the Merlyn Theatre in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Lauren and Andrew were joined in the studio with LENKA VANDERBOOM -  Melbourne Playback Theatre Company ensemble member and Creative Director of SticksnStones  on the Birrarung Marr .  The event includes a panel event with esteemed First Nations’ Victorians followed by a professional playback theatre performance.   SticksnStones is on Friday 27 th May, 6pm at D...

Laurent spoke to award winning dancer CHARMENE YAP,  a member of Sydney Dance Company and performer in the touring production CounterMove . CounterMove   will be performed at the Melbourne Theatre Company Southbank Theatre 25 th May to 4 th June Photography by Peter Greig (still from CACTI) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MITCHEL EDWARDS , emerging playwright, and actor  AARON TREVASKIS  join Lauren in the studio to talk about a new Australian and post-apocalyptic play,   Yellow Skies . Yellow Skies is produced by Baker's Dozen Theatre and is being performed at Metanoia Theatre at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 18 th -29 th May.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recently I got to visit the Linden New Art Gallery. The current exhibition that is being held at the moment is the ‘ Wild Lands ’ exhibition with two sections following different artists and there particular styles of different wild life. When walking into the gallery on the left side is the ‘Wild Lands’ exhibition, featuring the artists: Chris Mason, Bronwyn Hack, Dionne C...

Adalya joins Lauren in the studio to share her thoughts about the Tinnalley String Quartet & Lior concert she attended earlier this month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lauren is joined in the studio with DEFRON , a local Melbourne hip-hop artist and the leader behind the Walk This Way project. Defron talks about his trip to New York and the hip hop scene in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Green Room is the latest film by Jeremy Saulnier, an American filmmaker whose two previous films, Murder Party (2007) and Blue Ruin (2013), both explore and analyse violence in various forms and settings. And now Green Room , which premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2015, extends this obsession to even darker territory. It centres on a punk band who goes to play at a small concert venue in t...

Earlier this week, Beth interviewed Next Wave festival artist RANI PRAMESTI and her show Sedih // Sunno .  Sedih // Sunno is being performed as part of the NEXT WAVE festival and is on until May 15 th at the North Melbourne Town Hall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Earlier this month, Andrew had the opportunity to speak with Michael Williams, head of The Wheeler Centre, about the event: Paul Kelly does Shakespeare . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Lauren and Andrew chatted to GUY ABRAHAMS, CLIMARTE CEO and co-founder & THORNTON WALKER, one of the 10 commissioned artists from CLIMARTE Poster Project 2016 .   The CLIMARTE Poster Project  Forum is on Tuesday 17 th 6pm at Carlton Connect Initiative LAB-14, 700 Swanston St Carlton, and the  Exhibition is on at the same location until May 28 th . See omnystudio....

Hosts Lauren and Andrew were joined in the studios by two very special guests - their mothers!  Lee and Janet discuss their experiences of motherhood and how the media portrays motherhood.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia's first production of The River , by Jez Butterworth, called for a complete revamp of the Red Stitch Actors Theatre. To make a small fishing cabin by the river feel like an arena, the audience is seated on two sides of the stage as they watch a devout fisherman entertain his novice fisherwomen guests. Sometimes you are getting a monologue delivered straight to you, at other times the act...

Saturday April 23, 2016 marked 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, and exactly 452 years since his birth. You have to appreciate the perfect symmetry of being born and being taken on the same day of the year, apparently due to some overzealous celebrating at his favourite pub. It also gives his global fanbase a reason to have two big celebrations each century. The latest of these, he...

A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay written by Virginia Woolf. It is based on a series of lectures Woolf gave at two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in 1928. The lectures employ a fictional narrator and narrative and they explore the idea of ‘women and fiction’. It argues space for women writers, both figuratively and literally, in the world of literature that...

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a film written and directed by Taika Waititi, based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Trump. It opened in New Zealand on March 31 st 2016 and set box office records, which is no surprise because the film is phenomenal.  It follows the story of Ricky Baker played by Julian Dennison, a young delinquent from the city. He is sent by child welfare to live d...

Will had the opportunity to review 3 shows from the Next Wave festival: microLandscapes , Ground Control and Voices of Joan of Arc .  All shows are being performed at the Northcote Town Hall until May 14 th except for microLandscapes, which finishes on Sunday May 8 th Image: Janine Gibson from Voices of Joan of Arc, Next Wave Festival 2016   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Hosts Lauren and Andrew were joined in the studio with  EMMA FISHWICK , creator and choreographer & KYNAN TAN, composer and projection visual artist from Next Wave festival show microlandscapes .  Emma and Kynan talked about their process of developing  microlandscapes , and where they would like to take the show in the future.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

Review by Ebony Beaton Studio Ghibli’s lesser known film Only Yesterday is this year celebrating it’s 25 th anniversary and is being re-released in Australia. Only Yesterday is unlike other studio Ghibli films. It cuts back the magical and child-like imagination that is usually the main premise within their films. It is a realistic drama, it is made for adults and is particularly aimed...