Art Smitten - The Podcast

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 information.

Review by Ebony Beaton Studio Ghibli’s lesser known film Only Yesterday is this year celebrating it’s 25th 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 at women. It’s set in 1982 and follows Taeko, she is 27 and unmarried, and she grew up and lives and works in Tokyo. She takes a holiday to the countryside to visit the family of her elder brother of her brother-in-law, and is helping them on their organic farm to harvest safflower. She travels on the over night train and on her journey there begins to recall her childhood back in the 1960s. When she arrives at the station she is greeted by her brother in law's second cousin, Toshio, they barely know each other but quickly create a very strong bond. Through the film she finds her self more and more nostalgic of

Content warning: contains swearing. Review by Ebony Beaton Fucking Parasites directed by Adam J A Cass, is a grim look into the world of two teenage girls who are imprisoned in an immigration processing centre and waiting to find out if they have been granted refugee status after fleeing from their homelands with their parents. They spend their time playing and parodying adults in their lives, such as nurses, their parents and lawyers. It is written by Swedish playwright Ninna Tersman, she wrote it about 10 years ago and was inspired by her experience in Sweden with refugees as well has her experiences while traveling New Zealand, and is based on interviews with asylum seekers, refugees, migration board officers, lawyers, doctors and policemen both in New Zealand and Sweden. I really enjoyed Adam J A Cass’s and this casts interpretation of this text. The set was quite abstract and stark, pastel blue boxes as rooms with small passages ways to each painted on the floor, with furniture and objects in the s

Katie reviews Metanoia Theatre’s production Coriolanus. Coriolanus is being performed at Heartstring Theatre until May 8th.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JOSH LYNZAAT (access officer) and TIM SNEDDON (co-writer/sound designer) from the DIG collective chat to hosts Ben and Jonathan about their upcoming production DoubleSpeak.  DoubleSpeak is on Friday 20th - Saturday 21st May at 7:30pm at Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, VIC.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DANIEL TOBIAS, Green Room Award winner for Best Writing earlier this year, join hosts Ben and Jonathan to discuss his nationally acclaimed production The Orchid and The Crow.   The Orchid and The Crow is being performed at Theatre Works, St Kilda 3rd – 15th May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Ben and Jonathan are joined in the studio with BENG OH, director of the encore season of The Yellow Wave, and co-founder of 15 Minutes from Anywhere artist collaboration with writer Jane Miller.  The Yellow Wave is being performed at The Butterfly Club, Tuesday – Sunday 26th April – 8th May, 2016See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.