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Hugh Laurie’s 'slightly drunk' tweets were right. House is still great TV
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Telethon Kid | Malthouse
They say laughter is the best medicine, and I hope that counts for the kind of black humour from writer Alistair Baldwin’s debut production. Based on his own experiences with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, Telethon Kid is an absurdist black comedy presented at a cracking pace. Beginning at a big-pharma conference, (a junket posing as a grant opportunity for research), we meet Sam, a character based loosely on Baldwin.
Friends with benefits in lockdown: The intimate partner loophole
I’m currently permitted home visitation from precisely one (1) friend, provided I pinky promise to all relevant state authorities that I fuck them. That, at least, is my reductive summary of the intimate partner loophole under lockdown restrictions in Victoria. At the time of writing, there are only four reasons to leave one’s house: exercise, essential shopping, care, and essential work that cannot be done from home.
Sydney Writers' Festival - Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Although one in five Australians live with disability, people with disabilities remain under-represented in our literature. Growing Up Disabled in Australia is an urgent anthology of first-person stories described by The Sydney Morning Herald as “gripping the reader by the collar while pulling the rug out from under their feet”.
Malthouse Theatre - Telethon Kid
Sam’s adoring subscribers would describe him as an inspiration, and Instagram’s honey of disability positivity activism.
Sydney Writers' Festival - Queerstories
Join Maeve Marsden for a special Sydney Writers’ Festival edition of Queerstories. Fast becoming a national institution, Queerstories was born from a desire to hear the stories LGBTQI+ people want to tell: tales of lives well lived, battles fought, pride, prejudice, love, humour and everything in-between. There’s more to being queer than coming out. Featuring guests Alistair Baldwin, Krissy Kneen, Rebecca Starford, Alison Whittaker and Kaya Wilson.
Growing Up Disabled in Australia eBook : Findlay, Carly, Alistair Baldwin, K. Z. Barton, Dion Beasley, Marla Bishop, Chantel Bongiovanni, Ricky Buchanan, Lucy Carpenter, Emma Di Bernardo, Belinda Downes, Sam Drummond, Kath Duncan, Robin M. Eames, Astrid E
My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn’t it? I didn’t grow up disabled; I grew up with a problem. A problem that those around me wanted to fix. We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us. The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything. Don’t fear the labels. That identity, which I feared for so long, is now one of my greatest qualities. I had become disabled – not just by my disease, but by the way the world treated me.
Cybec Electric 2020
Sign up to get the latest information and updates from MTC Some of Australia’s most exciting playwrights come together to present readings of their latest works, brought to life by a team of talented actors, directors and dramaturgs. Cybec Electric forms part of MTC’s ongoing commitment to the development of new Australian writing, and is only possible due to the support of the late Dr Roger Riordan AM and The Cybec Foundation.
Gaming the algorithm: SEO and the battle between creativity and visibility
You can write something in the best way it can be written, or in the way it’ll get seen by the most people. These two things never align fully. (Image: Unsplash/ Federica Galli) My first proper, paid job was in a form of writing I’d consider somewhat a bastardisation of writing itself. I’m talking about search engine optimisation, or SEO, writing. It’s writing that walks the tricksy line between sentences humans like and sentences Google’s algorithm likes.
End This Hellfire Year By Watching These Delightfully Wholesome Cooking Videos
2018. Globally, it was a year of high highs and “get fucked” lows. Personally? Same. That’s why we needed wholesome cooking videos this year. This year far too much of my time was spent in a dual state of both pure exhaustion and hot anxiety. Often I’d come home from a particularly gruelling day of 2018™ and flop onto bed, my brain too amped to sleep but too drained to engage with the Golden Age of Television people keep trying to tell me we’re in. That’s where online cooking videos comes in.
With 'The Angus Project', We Finally Have A Show That Gets Comedy And Disability Right
"There's a lot of truly batshit absurd stuff that goes on in regional Australia, that people don't realise, and we want to bring that stuff to light, but with a comedic spin." “There’s a lot of truly batshit absurd stuff that goes on in regional Australia that people don’t realise.” Created as part of ABC’s Fresh Blood initiative, The Angus Project has evolved from web series into a full half-hour pilot, filled with laughs, action and — most importantly for a pilot — really good potential for...
Why You Should Give Improv A Go This Comedy Season
It's not all bad. Trust us. American improvisers dominate the podcasts we listen to, the films we watch and the TV we binge. Say the word “improv” to someone in Australia, though, and you’re more likely to be met with an eyeroll than a show of support. But that’s about to change. Would you believe me if I said that some of the best shows at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival weren’t scripted?
10 queer comics who made 2017 their own
As we drag our bruised and weary selves through the final weeks of Garbage Year 2017, there’s never been a better time to reevaluate your comedy intake - purging it of cancelled men like Louis C.K., and filling that overdue void with a more balanced (and funnier) mix of genders, races, sexualities, and abilities.
Lavender Scare: queer colour theory and monsters in the closet
The colour purple (not the 1985 film The Colour Purple, which merits its own article) carries with it a number of symbolic associations. It can denote royalty, conjure mystery or evoke spirituality. But of all the common associations the colour purple carries, there is one that is regularly overlooked on the Crystal Healing Colour Symbolism blogs I’ve come across while researching this article; its association with queerness. Purple is a recurring colour throughout recent queer history.
Comedy in a queer bookshop is the safe haven I didn't know I needed
"It’s a trait of the deeply lucky, and the deeply unlucky, to learn at a young age that laughing at misfortune is key to surviving it." It’s a trait of the deeply lucky, and the deeply unlucky, to learn at a young age that laughing at misfortune is key to surviving it. Much like a plucky young orphan Annie - but with muscular dystrophy in lieu of the comparable genetic anomaly that is being ginger - I faced adversity from a young age.
‘Disability Impressions Offensive’ Decrees Meryl Streep To Room Of Award-Winning Disability Impressionists
Australia’s less annoying, more disabled version of Perez Hilton - Alistair Baldwin - gives you the inside scoop on Meryl Streep’s iconic Golden Globe speech against Trump and his offensive imitation of a disabled reporter.
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