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Writing about theatre & utopia from Ryan Hamilton, an award-winning fat/queer indie producer & theatremaker based in Narrm (Melbourne)
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i wrote a big scary essay/review about a show i saw at Melbourne Fringe but maybe it’s actually about how we change things and how monash uni fucked me up and also how i have voted in every single election i’ve been a part of.
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We Get to Decide How We Live Through It
Reviewing ‘Democracy Repair Services’ by Noemie Huttner-Koros, directed by Martha Latham, presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2025
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November 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
i wrote a big scary essay/review about a show i saw at Melbourne Fringe but maybe it’s actually about how we change things and how monash uni fucked me up and also how i have voted in every single election i’ve been a part of.
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Arts criticism & journalism being reduced to marketing is incredibly depressing, and I am thankful for the approximately six people/outlets in the BG space who actually do criticism and/or journalism. I don't condemn the rest but I do feel sorry for them.
August 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Arts criticism & journalism being reduced to marketing is incredibly depressing, and I am thankful for the approximately six people/outlets in the BG space who actually do criticism and/or journalism. I don't condemn the rest but I do feel sorry for them.
Saw Miss Julie last night at fortyfivedownstairs and I’m a little gagged. It’s a fairly strict adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (which I’ve never seen nor read) set in the melb hospo sector.
August 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Saw Miss Julie last night at fortyfivedownstairs and I’m a little gagged. It’s a fairly strict adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (which I’ve never seen nor read) set in the melb hospo sector.
Saw mother play at Melbourne Theatre Company last night and oh goodness!!! What a beautiful little show. I went in without having read anything about the show (literally didn’t even read the copy I had no clue what it was about) and was delighted on so many fronts.
July 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Saw mother play at Melbourne Theatre Company last night and oh goodness!!! What a beautiful little show. I went in without having read anything about the show (literally didn’t even read the copy I had no clue what it was about) and was delighted on so many fronts.
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Inspirational words about fighting fascism from ANDOR. Now with alt text.
July 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Inspirational words about fighting fascism from ANDOR. Now with alt text.
I’ve always found the signage at Parliament station directing you to either end of the station concourse sooo weird because the entrances to the ‘Collins St’ side of the station are closer on the whole to Bourke st.
June 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I’ve always found the signage at Parliament station directing you to either end of the station concourse sooo weird because the entrances to the ‘Collins St’ side of the station are closer on the whole to Bourke st.
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It’s been very underreported but the ABC has just gutted its arts and culture team. It will go down from 12 national arts, culture and entertainment reporters to 3. One of those will focused on writing PR for TV shows. It’s vandalism.
We covered it on our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
We covered it on our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
How the Media Helped Israel Bomb Iran, the ABC’s Future, and the State of Australian TV
Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 18/06/2025 · 1h 8m
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June 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
It’s been very underreported but the ABC has just gutted its arts and culture team. It will go down from 12 national arts, culture and entertainment reporters to 3. One of those will focused on writing PR for TV shows. It’s vandalism.
We covered it on our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
We covered it on our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
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Jinkx Monsoon to play Mary Todd Lincoln in ‘Oh, Mary!’ beginning August 4.
June 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Jinkx Monsoon to play Mary Todd Lincoln in ‘Oh, Mary!’ beginning August 4.
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Wowee, the outgoing director of Festivals Adelaide has some pretty strong words about the sector. www.indailysa.com.au/news/busines...
June 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Wowee, the outgoing director of Festivals Adelaide has some pretty strong words about the sector. www.indailysa.com.au/news/busines...
ok what if i made a play which was kill climate deniers combined with a theatre awards night and we hold the state arts minister hostage demanding money for the arts ??? is this something ???
June 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
ok what if i made a play which was kill climate deniers combined with a theatre awards night and we hold the state arts minister hostage demanding money for the arts ??? is this something ???
Here’s a little (big) piece I wrote about Fat Pig, an opera which staged last weekend in Melbourne.
It’s not really a review, just me trying to make sense of the feelings that seeing it brought up.
It feels pretty scary to be so critical—but then again I’m just so tired of anti-fatness in theatre.
It’s not really a review, just me trying to make sense of the feelings that seeing it brought up.
It feels pretty scary to be so critical—but then again I’m just so tired of anti-fatness in theatre.
🐷 Lipstick on a (Fat) Pig
10 Reasons Why I’m Bloody Tired, a Personal Response to ‘Fat Pig’ at fortyfivedownstairs | Presented by Forest Collective and BK Opera
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June 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Here’s a little (big) piece I wrote about Fat Pig, an opera which staged last weekend in Melbourne.
It’s not really a review, just me trying to make sense of the feelings that seeing it brought up.
It feels pretty scary to be so critical—but then again I’m just so tired of anti-fatness in theatre.
It’s not really a review, just me trying to make sense of the feelings that seeing it brought up.
It feels pretty scary to be so critical—but then again I’m just so tired of anti-fatness in theatre.
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two men announce they are breaking up at the beginning of pride month, and you're all laughing?
June 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
two men announce they are breaking up at the beginning of pride month, and you're all laughing?
Now I’ve only just watched the first two episodes of Overcompensating but I don’t get the hype at all. I read an American describing it as ‘groundbreaking’ which (if the first two episodes are anything to go by) is just not true.
Not sure if I’ll finish the rest of it.
Not sure if I’ll finish the rest of it.
June 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Now I’ve only just watched the first two episodes of Overcompensating but I don’t get the hype at all. I read an American describing it as ‘groundbreaking’ which (if the first two episodes are anything to go by) is just not true.
Not sure if I’ll finish the rest of it.
Not sure if I’ll finish the rest of it.
OK. DOCTOR WHO FINALE. MY THOUGHTS.
First of all, RTD is really coming for Moffaf’s gig with all this nonsensical plot. The underverse?? Diva what???
Second of all, this pacing is a goddamn dumpster fire and Belinda’s character arc was a fucking MESS….. UNTIL….
First of all, RTD is really coming for Moffaf’s gig with all this nonsensical plot. The underverse?? Diva what???
Second of all, this pacing is a goddamn dumpster fire and Belinda’s character arc was a fucking MESS….. UNTIL….
June 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
OK. DOCTOR WHO FINALE. MY THOUGHTS.
First of all, RTD is really coming for Moffaf’s gig with all this nonsensical plot. The underverse?? Diva what???
Second of all, this pacing is a goddamn dumpster fire and Belinda’s character arc was a fucking MESS….. UNTIL….
First of all, RTD is really coming for Moffaf’s gig with all this nonsensical plot. The underverse?? Diva what???
Second of all, this pacing is a goddamn dumpster fire and Belinda’s character arc was a fucking MESS….. UNTIL….
Coming out as a mylk hater. Not plant milk specifically, just the obnoxious spelling of it.
May 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Coming out as a mylk hater. Not plant milk specifically, just the obnoxious spelling of it.
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‘Glee’ premiered 16 years ago today.
May 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
‘Glee’ premiered 16 years ago today.
I could cry I love this latest season of doctor who so much. This Eurovision episode, the gay couple, the morrocanoil of it all, Graham Norton, Susan!!!, god I’m obsessed. This is doctor who at its absolute peak and I’m so glad to get to watch it. UGH
May 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I could cry I love this latest season of doctor who so much. This Eurovision episode, the gay couple, the morrocanoil of it all, Graham Norton, Susan!!!, god I’m obsessed. This is doctor who at its absolute peak and I’m so glad to get to watch it. UGH
Finally caught up on season three of The Bear and I’m so disappointed? Nothing happened? Just entirely listless and morose. And the finale? I mean? Was it even a finale?
May 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Finally caught up on season three of The Bear and I’m so disappointed? Nothing happened? Just entirely listless and morose. And the finale? I mean? Was it even a finale?
war criminal this war criminal that have we considered not going to war? maybe staying home? not an expert here but that might save a couple civilians’ lives
May 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
war criminal this war criminal that have we considered not going to war? maybe staying home? not an expert here but that might save a couple civilians’ lives
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Will the Australian War Memorial NOW deal with its exhibit lionising war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith?
May 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Will the Australian War Memorial NOW deal with its exhibit lionising war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith?
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From before the campaign began, mainstream media has been trying to engineer an image of young men as being more far right than ever before — culminating in SBS interviewing two right-wing agitators to make its point.
No leftist Gen Z men were ever included in the selective framing. SO I DID IT:
No leftist Gen Z men were ever included in the selective framing. SO I DID IT:
That army of right-wing young men coming to save Dutton? A mirage
Political commentators got the read on young men very wrong, in part because they would not be swayed from their US-inspired framing.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
From before the campaign began, mainstream media has been trying to engineer an image of young men as being more far right than ever before — culminating in SBS interviewing two right-wing agitators to make its point.
No leftist Gen Z men were ever included in the selective framing. SO I DID IT:
No leftist Gen Z men were ever included in the selective framing. SO I DID IT:
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This is truly were the worst impulses of Aus mainstream media to push the (sometimes far) right, at the exclusion of the left.
I'm in no way saying that Gen Z men are all left radicals & there are definitely problems to deal with but we wont have clarity of we keep going like this
I'm in no way saying that Gen Z men are all left radicals & there are definitely problems to deal with but we wont have clarity of we keep going like this
May 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This is truly were the worst impulses of Aus mainstream media to push the (sometimes far) right, at the exclusion of the left.
I'm in no way saying that Gen Z men are all left radicals & there are definitely problems to deal with but we wont have clarity of we keep going like this
I'm in no way saying that Gen Z men are all left radicals & there are definitely problems to deal with but we wont have clarity of we keep going like this
truly i think tidying up our balcony and getting an outdoor armchair has done the most to secure my mental health over the past month. nothing like watching the trees on my curbside rattan lounger.
April 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
truly i think tidying up our balcony and getting an outdoor armchair has done the most to secure my mental health over the past month. nothing like watching the trees on my curbside rattan lounger.
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🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD
strolling down swanston st to the tune of jb’s baby life is good
April 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
strolling down swanston st to the tune of jb’s baby life is good