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 u...
Jan 28, 2024•45 min
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 Lit...
Nov 16, 2023•40 min
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. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and re...
Oct 19, 2023•41 min
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...
Sep 30, 2023•43 min
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 th...
Aug 17, 2023•39 min
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...
Jul 26, 2023•46 min
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 Spi...
Jun 16, 2023•40 min
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 ...
May 21, 2023•45 min
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 ...
Apr 21, 2023•37 min
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 yassificat...
Feb 15, 2023•44 min
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 fo...
Dec 23, 2022•37 min
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 ...
Nov 08, 2022•42 min
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 So...
Oct 02, 2022•37 min
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 M...
Aug 27, 2022•41 min
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 schoo...
Jul 13, 2022•39 min•Ep. 50
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 a...
Mar 19, 2022•38 min
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! Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition ...
Jul 02, 2019•41 min
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. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition...
May 20, 2019•37 min
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. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Apr 22, 2019•35 min
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. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark ...
Feb 27, 2019•35 min
This month Team Aisle go gayer and queerer than usual with our annual Midsumma show. We cover Sara Ward's incredible space rock opera The Legend of Queen Kong Episode II and our second show is Adam Ibrahim and Samuel Russo's queering of Jean Genet's The Maids. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Feb 18, 2019•32 min
Join us for a special episode covering The Infirmary - a Triage Live Art Collective immersive experience. This episode is told in the first person of our experience in surrendering to the process of death and care. We hope you enjoy it. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Jan 02, 2019•29 min
It's summer! The gang bring you all summer related goods including how to be a Badass by Tash York at The Butterfly Club and Suddenly Last Summer by Little Ones Theatre at Red Stitch. During intermission we discuss the mini-series Waco and King Lear via National Theatre Live. Coming soon heralds Midsumma - top picks include Merciless Gods, The Legend of Queen Kong Ep II + The Homosapiens. Also there is Christian Marclay's 24 hour video piece The Clock at ACMI and MON FOMA, Sydney Festival. Conne...
Dec 12, 2018•33 min
Melbourne International Arts Festival episode! The gang talk all things festival - featuring Song For a Weary Throat by Rawcus Ensemble (and featuring the Invenio Singers) and Re-Member Me by Dickie Beau. Intermission chats include the Elysian Ensemble and Hubei Symphony Orchestra. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Nov 26, 2018•31 min
This month the gang have two very disparate experiences - Do You Know Me? a site specific work on homelessness for Melbourne Fringe Festival and Spartacus, the brand new production of a very old tale by the Australian Ballet. During intermission MOMA at NGV a given D- and both hosts discuss their favourite works from the recent Fringe Festival. Coming soon recommends include classical music and visual art. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Ph...
Oct 19, 2018•37 min
The gang are joined by a very special guest Richard Watts, Australia's pre-eminent arts journalist, arts advocate and homosexualist, together they cover Samarah Hersch's Dybbuks at Theatreworks and Nakkiah Lui's Blackie Blackie Brown at the Malthouse Theatre. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Sep 22, 2018•38 min
The gang go and see William Tell by Victorian Opera and The Death of Walt Disney by MKA. We talk feudal hipster DILFS, gender non-binary opera representations, exploding apple fails, soprano sexism, our current favourite podcasts, the myths about lemmings and Korean garbage disposal. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Aug 31, 2018•37 min
The gang see The Australian Ballet's latest contemporary dance piece "Verve" and Justin Shoulder's "Carrion" at Arts House, where the future human is a shapeshifting turtle. During intermission we revisit The Crown and Queer Eye and discuss snacking methods for festival season, our late MIFF picks and suggestions for stoner film experience. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing...
Aug 09, 2018•44 min
The gang get dilated pupils of lust at Little Ones Theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's poem The Nightingale and the Rose - staged at Theatre Works. They then spend quality time with an Indigenous family rocked by suicide in Brothers Wreck at The Malthouse. Both performances affected our hosts quite deeply. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel Theme composition Mark Barrage Sound editing by Shackwest...
Jul 22, 2018•39 min
Jasmine Moseley of the The Australian Ballet joins us for Intermission and Coming Soon - featuring the Head On Photo Festival and virtual reality in Canberra. This month's shows discussed are De Stroyed by Jillian Murray and Suzanne Chaundy Director at fortyfivedownstairs and The House of Bernarda Alba - an Australian reimagining of the Federico Garcia Lorca play, by Patricia Cornelius and Leticia Ines Caceres at Melbourne Theatre Company. Connect with us on instagram. Credits Produced and...
Jun 25, 2018•39 min
