Across the Aisle

Our last episode! We have been thinking about ending the show for quite some time and felt this was an appropriate punctuation point; The Visitors (spoilers - the best play Carla has ever seen) and the last production of Little One's theatre Lesbian Vampires of Sodom. A production company we felt a great affinity with (and along a similar timeline to this show). All great things must come to a conclusion, even 2000 year long lesbian vampiric frenemies. Thank you to everyone who have supported us over the years. Thank you to the incredible artists, whose works we have discussed and been inspired by. To Ron from Shackwest who has always made us sound so incredible. The Mark Gomes who has provided us with our compelling and perfect theme song for all these years and finally to Phil whose luminous proximity has made me so sharp and human xx Carla

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. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sound editing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠⁠⁠ Cover image of Staunch ASF by Alliah Nival

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. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sound editing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠⁠⁠ Cover image Kate Longley

Welcome to our MIFF 2023 episode! We took the opportunity to hibernate over winter and do some MIFF online films covering the mind boggling "quiet part out loud" selection process for the Prague Academy of Art in ART TALENT SHOW, and the documentary CASA SUSANNA about a trans retreat of the same name in the 1960's Catskills. In Intermission we talk our MIFF methods, the ruthless (and mean) shitcanning of gay romcom Red, White and Royal Blue. And in Coming Soon it's Fringe Mania with our second lot of recommendations which are now all on our Instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ⁠⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠⁠ Sound editing by ⁠⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠⁠ Cover image unknown

HELLO PIGGIES. We get down and dirty with The Bloomshed and their meltingly good Animal Farm. In Intermission we discuss the Venn overlap between this and Barbie. Our second act takes us to the Malthouse for This is Living - Ash Flanders ode to chronically ill queers who want to run away to the country (Carla was ATTACKED). And in Coming Soon we recommend the Pulse program at Melbourne Fringe and the REWIRE program at Geelong Arts Centre. This was a truly joyous return to form, and felt like the before time with a little more existential death rattle thrown in. Our favourite! Long live queer irony as the pathway to pleasure and salvation. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ⁠Mark Barrage⁠ Sound editing by ⁠Shackwest⁠ Cover image Gregory Lorenzutti

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. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ⁠⁠Mark Barrage⁠⁠ Sound editing by ⁠⁠Shackwest⁠⁠ Cover image Daniel Boud

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.  Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ⁠Mark Barrage⁠ Sound editing by ⁠Shackwest⁠ Cover image Pia Johnson

A joyous episode this month traversing the best that Melbourne and Geelong has to offer with the epic Melbourne Now, a wide ranging art survey of all things Melbourne and Back to Back theatre's Small Metal Objects thrillingly stage in Geelong's Market Square mall. In Intermission we discuss reading (also listening) and our seasonal self care (spoiler one of us is now exclusively a cold shower devotee, can you guess). In Coming Soon we recommend more Rising morsels and Sydney Dance Company's ab [intra] at Geelong Arts Centre. Hoping this episode finds you engaged and present in this rebooting time. Love Carla and Philip. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest Cover image Jeff Busby

New episode alert! In March we went to the cinema to see the singular and extraordinary After Sun and then from the the safety of our living rooms we experienced ABC TV's Queerstralia. In intermission we discussed the $10 Vline revolution, Phil being an MTC subscriber, the very specific time of life where everything zeitgeisty being made by people exactly our age and in Coming Soon we recommend upcoming shows at Yirramboi, Rising and Back to Back. Enjoy and PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT OUR SHOW. Love you. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest Cover image Charlotte Wells/Gregory Oke

Hello darling listeners. It is summer, well officially not it seems weather wise, and you know what that means?! GAYNESS. Big gay vibes with our annual festivals Midsumma and Mardi Gras heating things up and stripping thing off. So, of course, we deep dive on some delicious shows from our family - The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven and the impenetrable Rorschach that is Tár. This is the double feature you have always wanted. We also talk our most loved and loathed coporate yassification, Sydney Festival and much more. Please tell your friends! No one listens to our show. Sending love. Connect with us on ⁠⁠instagram.⁠⁠ If you love our show please consider donating to our server costs. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest Cover image of Kristen Smyth as Jesus, Queen of Heaven by Daniel Rabin