
Across the Aisle
By Across the Aisle

Across the AisleMay 21, 2023

Ep 60 - Animal Farm, This is Living
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

Ep 59 - Grand Theft Theatre, Identity
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

Ep 58 - I Liked it But..., Happy Days
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!
Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest
- Cover image Pia Johnson

Ep 57 - Melbourne Now (NGV Ian Potter), Small Metal Objects
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

Ep 56 - After Sun, Queerstralia
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.
Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest
- Cover image Charlotte Wells/Gregory Oke

Ep 55 - The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven, Tár
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.
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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

Ep 54 - Paul Yore (ACCA), Lele
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
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

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

Ep 52 - Shadow, Give Me Pity!
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!
Credits
- Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound editing by Shackwest

Ep 51 - Light (ACMI), Looking for Alibrandi
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

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

Ep 49 - Handa Opera La Traviata, The Power of the Dog
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.
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Credits
- Theme composition Mark Barrage
- Sound engineering and editing by Shackwest

Ep 48 - FINALE - Daddy, Blood Quantum

Ep 47 - The Aspie Hour, Single Asian Female
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.

Ep 46 - Mr Burns, A Post-electric Play, Biladurang

Ep 45 - Become The One, Barbara And The Camp Dogs

Ep 44 - The Legend Of Queen Kong Episode II, The Maids

Ep 43 - Infirmary

Ep 42 - Tash York - Bad Ass, Suddenly Last Summer

Ep 41 - Song For A Weary Throat, Re-Member Me

Ep 40 - Do You Know Me?, Spartacus

Ep 39 - Dybbuks, Blackie Blackie Brown

Ep 38 - William Tell, The Death Of Walt Disney

Ep 37 - Verve, Carrion

Ep 36 - The Nightingale And The Rose, Brothers Wreck

Ep 35 - De Stroyed, House Of Bernarda Alba

Ep 34 - Personal, Fleabag

Ep 33 - Abigail's Party, Uncanny Valley, Girl

Ep 32 - Hir, Good Muslim Boy

Ep 31 - Priscilla, Dragged

Ep 30 - 2017 Year In Review

Ep 29 - Pop Up Globe - Henry V, Birdcage Thursdays

Ep 28 - Taylor Mac Chapter IV, All The Sex I've Ever Had

Ep 27 - Crimson Tide, Big Heart

Ep 26 - Nightdance, Credentials

Ep 25 - The Moors, Merciless Gods

Ep 24 - The Book Of Exodus Part I, Revolt

Ep 23 - Native Girl Syndrome, Spencer

Ep 22 - Joan, This Is Eden

Ep 21 - Passenger, Faster

Ep 20 - The Homosexuals, The Age Of Bones

Ep 19 - I Am My Own Wife, The Happy Prince

Ep 18 - The Interpreters, Hot Brown Honey

Ep 17 - Blaque Showgirls, Deceptive Threads

Ep 16 - Lady Eats Apple, War And Peace

Ep 15 - Lilith: The Jungle Girl, Two Dogs

In Conversation - Katie Sfetkidis (Hotel Obscura)

Ep 14 - The Mill On The Floss, Edward II

Ep 13 - Hotel Obscura
