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Ep 63 – Burnout Paradise, Staunch ASF

November 16, 2023bloomshed, fortyfivedownstairs, fringe festival, indigenous, ponycam, transcribed

It’s Fringe Mania! Phil and I saw a whole bunch of shows at the best festival of the year and it felt good. Really good. We watched young people sweat and work and contemplate late capitalism from their treadmills in Ponycam’s Burnout Paradise. In intermission we chat the sublime A Dodgeball Named Desire by The Bloomshed and Fringe Theatre Winner Someday We’ll Find It. Our second act takes us to Meat Market where we saw the lyrical and accomplished work Staunch ASF. In Coming Soon we chat Little One’s Theatre swan song Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, (now over) Sydney Theatre Company’s The Visitors and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Red Stitch. If you value our podcast please tell a friend and get them to add it! Our listens are now non-existent and we’re wondering if we still keep going? Love Carla, Phil and Ron.

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Credits

Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
Theme composition ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠⁠⁠
Sound editing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠⁠⁠
Cover image Alliah Nival

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Ep 62 – The Crocodile, Yuldea

October 19, 2023bangarra dance theatre, dance, fortyfivedownstairs, indigenous, spinning plates co., transcribed

Make it snappy. We experienced ⁠The Crocodile⁠ by the formidable Spinning Plates Co. and went deep on fame and all it takes to keep this arts economy going, our second show is the magical ⁠Yuldea⁠ by Bangarra. In Intermission we went deeper on the ethics of zoos and our love of Chinese gardens. In Coming Soon we recommend ⁠The Visitors by Victorian Opera⁠, the ⁠Fringe encore season⁠ at Geelong Arts Centre and ⁠Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.

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Credits

Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
Theme composition ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠⁠⁠
Sound editing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠⁠⁠
Cover image unknown

transcript under the cut

Ep 59 – Grand Theft Theatre, Identity

July 31, 2023australian ballet, dance, indigenous, ponycam, rising festival, transcribed

Happy winter listeners! We hope this finds you well and rugged up. This month we discuss ⁠Pony Cam’s Grand Theft Theatre⁠ and the shows that have left an indelible mark on us. Intermission chatter plugs the HBO show ⁠Barry⁠ (better than Succession? you decide!) and the Music Viva ⁠International Chamber Music Championship⁠. Our second act is the Australian Ballet’s double bill ⁠Identity⁠. An odd pairing we couldn’t wrap our brains around. Our Coming Soon recommendations are ⁠This is Living⁠, ⁠An Uprising of Dreams⁠, the ⁠Women’s World Cup⁠ and hyper local video store documentary ⁠Rainbow Video⁠.

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Credits

Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
Theme composition ⁠⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠⁠
Sound editing by ⁠⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠⁠
Cover image Daniel Boud

Transcript under the cut

Ep 58 – I Liked it But…, Happy Days

June 16, 2023dance, geelong, geelong arts centre, indigenous, melbourne theatre company, transcribed

Happy days are here again, or are they? This month we head to Little Creature’s in Geelong for an education in contemporary dance (and pizza) with Joel Bray’s ⁠I Liked it But…⁠ and do a rare mission to the MTC to see Becketts absurdist tragicomic provocation ⁠Happy Days⁠. In Intermission we discuss our favourite Little Creatures moments, ⁠Loaded at Malthouse Theatre⁠ and ⁠Sydney Dance Company at Geelong Arts Centre⁠. Recommendations for Coming Soon are ⁠Clarice Beckett at Geelong Gallery⁠, ⁠Shadow Spirit at Rising⁠, La Mama’s new festival ⁠Explorations⁠ (featuring ⁠Pony Cam’s Boobs in Space⁠) and ⁠Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition⁠. Please tell a friend about our show today! <3 Carla, Philip and Ron.

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Credits

Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
Theme composition ⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠
Sound editing by ⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠
Cover image Pia Johnson

transcript under the cut

Ep 53 – Memoir of a Tired Carer, Sunshine Super Girl

November 9, 2022disabled people, fringe festival, indigenous, melbourne theatre company, transcribed

We’re back baby! We went to a Fringe show, Memoir of a Tired Carer, and no one got Covid. Team Aisle also travelled to wilds of North Geelong Arena to see the Evonne Goolagong biographical play (feel good hit) Sunshine Super Girl. In Intermission we chat Fringe highlights, Bangarra Dance Theatre and experimental new opera The Lighthouse. In Coming Soon we recommend Bodies of Water, Beth Gibbeson – A Thread of Light, Lele and Richard Mosse – Broken Spectre (at NGV). Please join us with your favourite bevvie.

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Credits

Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
Theme composition Mark Barrage
Sound editing by Shackwest

transcript under the cut

Ep 50 – QUEER (NGV), Titicut Follies (ACMI)

July 13, 2022ACMI, disabled people, documentary, film, indigenous, LGBTIQ+, NGV, people of colour, transcribed, visual art

It’s official! Across the Aisle is back for a 5th season after we can’t quite believe it 3 years hiatus. In June 2022 we cover the monumental QUEER exhibition at the NGV and Titicut Follies as part of the Frederick Wiseman retrospective at ACMI. We hope you enjoy having us back in your ears, and please tell your friends.

Titicut Follies (along with many other Frederick Wiseman films) is available for viewing on the Kanopy platform. You can get access to this free resource through your school or local library. Tracey Moffatt’s male gaze obliterating Heaven is available to rent on Vimeo (do it, it’s SO WORTH IT).

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Credits

Theme composition Mark Barrage
Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

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Ep 48 – Finale – Daddy, Blood Quantum

July 10, 2019dance, indigenous, LGBTIQ+, people of colour, yirramboi

Welcome to the LAST EPISODE of Across the Aisle. That’s right, after 4 years and 48 episodes we are ending. This episode is our Yirramboi special, covering Joel Bray’s Daddy and Ngioka Bunda-Heath and Tracey Bunda’s Blood Quantum. Join us for a greatest hits look at our back catalogue during intermission – where we both award our top 3 of the past 4 years and a wooden spoon!

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Theme composition Mark Barrage
Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

Ep 46 – Mr. Burns – A post-electric play, Biladurang

June 20, 2019anne washburn, fortyfivedownstairs, immersive, indigenous, LGBTIQ+, lightning jar theatre

Hello! It’s been too long since our last chat. In this episode the gang envision story telling beyond the apocalypse with Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Lightning Jar Theatre; and we return to the lofty heights of the Sofitel to experience Joel Bray’s immersive and intimate dance piece, Biladurang. During intermission we discuss radical television and colonially problematic, but beautiful nonetheless, gardens.

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Credits

Theme composition Mark Barrage
Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

Ep 45 – Become The One, Barbara and the Camp Dogs

March 1, 2019indigenous, lab kelpie, LGBTIQ+, malthouse theatre, melbourne international comedy festival, midsumma

In this episode the gang discuss two vital, new Australian, works – Become the One by Lab Kelpie about the statistical anomaly of zero homosexual Australian Rules Football players and Barbara and the Camp Dogs – an incredible rock opera about family, PTSD, and the therapy of singing at Malthouse Theatre. During Intermission things get heated when Carla and Philip discuss whether non-queer people should play queer roles and Coming Soon features all the women at Melbourne International Comedy Festival we would like to see. Thanks for listening and please financially subscribe. We only have 3 episodes left of this season before are forced to close due to lack of funds.

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Credits

Theme composition Mark Barrage
Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

Ep 39 – Dybbuks, Blackie Blackie Brown

September 23, 2018ash flanders, ben mendelson, declan greene, indigenous, jewish, malthouse theatre, nakkiah lui, richard watts, samarah hersch, theatre works

In this months episode the gang are joined by a very special guest Richard Watts, Australia’s pre-eminent arts journalist, arts advocate and homosexualist; together they cover Samarah Hersch’s Dybbuks at Theatreworks and Nakkiah Lui’s Blackie Blackie Brown at the Malthouse Theatre. During intermission Bendo Mendo’s (Ben Mendelson) theory on what makes Australian actors so compelling is discussed with great interest. Richard has Carla and Philip maniacally scribbling during Coming Soon with his hot tips for shows in October. Listen and share! If you like our work please support us by subscribing, donating or buying us a coffee.

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Credits

Theme composition Mark Barrage
Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest