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. 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. 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. 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. 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.  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. 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.

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 twitter, facebook, instagram and our website.  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

Hello Aislers! So lovely to be in your ear buds again. This episode we experience the visual, aural, spiritual and psychological immersion of Paul Yore's Word Made Flesh - a comprehensive retrospective of his work at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. In intermission we chat summer drinks and our love of dance works, and the practice, now we are all emerging from our Covid cocoons. Our second act is Lele at the exciting Neighbourhood Contemporary Arts Festival. We are taking a break for the summer but will return in February with another morsel for you. Enjoy and stay safe <3. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest Cover image of Paul Yore: Word Made Flesh installation view by Andrew Curtis

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

Across the Aisle attends MIFF! Phil reporting deep from the trenches of all the pleasures of MIFF (queues, choc tops, darting from one venue to the other) and Carla from her loungeroom on the Surf Coast annihilated on edibles. Films covered are Back to Back Theatre's award winning Shadow - a luscious celluloid imagining of their stage plays that "wonders whether an AI-led near-future society will further disenfranchise the disabled community" and the gloriously deranged Give Me Pity! starring Sophie von Haselberg as Sissy St. Clair in her first Saturday Night Special - ingenue, entertainer, demonically possessed.  We also chat cinema going (how do you do it?) and what is Coming Soon. Enjoy!

In this month's episode Carla and Phil discuss the smaller blockbuster Melbourne Winter Masterpieces on at ACMI from the Tate Modern – Light. And then we head off and the crack of dawn for sauce day at The Malthouse theatre for the stage adaptation of much-loved teen novel Looking for Alibrandi. In intermission the gang chat favourite winter drinks, Virginia Woolf's diaries and Hannah Kent's delightfully queer ghost story, Devotion. And perhaps a little too late in Coming Soon our picks for Melbourne Writers festival and MIFF. Bon appetite and tell your friends! Connect with us on twitter, facebook, instagram and our website.  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

It's official! Across the Aisle is back for a 5th season after a (we can't quite believe it) 3 year 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. Connect with us on twitter, facebook, instagram and our website.  If you love our show please consider donating to our server costs. Credits Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

Hello and welcome BACK to Across the Aisle. It is episode 49! And as with all things everything has changed, and we are no longer performing arts monogamous. We are arts with a capital A polyamorous. So, please watch Handa Opera’s 2012 production of La Traviata on the Opera Australia website and The Power of the Dog on Netflix (or in the cinema if at all possible). During Intermission we talk pandemic specific changes to our arts consumption and in Coming Soon we pick a few highlights to think about for potential future episodes. Thank you to all our listeners for your support over the years. If you'd like to help us keep the lights on for our back catalogue please contribute to our server costs here. Connect with us on twitter, facebook, instagram and our website.  __ Credits Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

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!

The gang saw Aspergers musical cabaret The Aspie Hour and Michelle Law's debut play Single Asian Female at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. During "Intermission" we talked the rest of the fest, primarily Maria Bamford, DeAnne Smith and Sweaty Pitts Pity Party. And in "Coming Soon" we chat our attendance at the Green Room Awards and the upcoming Australian Podcast Awards.

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.

In this episode the gang discuss two vital, new Australian, works - Become the One by Lab Kelpie and Barbara and the Camp Dogs 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.