Glittery Clittery: A ConSENSUAL Partyclosesthis weekend - a sparkly, sex-positive, feminist cabaret/gameshow about women, culture and female anatomy.Tessa Waters, Rowena Hutson and Victoria Falconer-Pritchard from Fringe Wives Club join Richard to sing, laughand beat the patriarchy. Showing as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Independent theatre collective the Corinthian Food Store Collective are visiting Melbourne from Sydney with their unique and revolutionary showThis, This is Mine. This intimate story of personal history in space takes place in the living room of a home - someone's home.Director Duncan Ragg and performer Matilda Ridgwaydiscuss the process of developing and touring the show.
Ashley Crawfordhas just written a book about a photographer. Martin Kantor, who passed away in 2015, was widely recognised as a maverick of Australian photo portraiture. His work has been immortalised in Photo, written by Ashley Crawford and Richard Guilliat, launched at Brightspace. Ashley joins Richard to talk about Martin's history and character as an icon of Australian art.
About this program
Visual art, theatre, film and literature. Segments include:
- 'Art Attack' - fortnightly visual arts reviews with Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith.
- 'Shoot the Messenger' - fortnightly theatre news & reviews with Fleur Kilpatrick.
- 'Drawn Out' - monthly chat about comic books and graphic novels with Bernard Caleo.
Please email talks@rrr.org.au for all interview requests.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Richard Watts has many years experience working in the arts industry, including five years as the Artistic Director of the youth arts organisation Express Media, seven years on the Board of Melbourne Fringe (including three years as Chair), and six years on the Committee of Management at La Mama Theatre, where he currently serves as Chair. Richard has helped program a range of festivals including Next Wave, the National Young Writers' Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Emerging Writers' Festival (which he founded) and he has written for various broadsheets, journals, zines and magazines. Currently he pays the rent by working as the Performing Arts Editor at www.artshub.com.au. In his spare time he watches old Doctor Who episodes.
The podcast intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.
https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion
