Interview: Sebastian Kainey, Future Works
Jim Thomas speaks to artist, Sebastian Kainey, about his works showing in the Future Works exhibition at the Brunswick Street Gallery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 20, 2016•8 min
Art Smitten
Art Smitten is SYN's weekly guide to arts, culture and entertainment in Australia and around the world. With a focus on youth and emerging arts, we're here to showcase culture ahead of the curve. From our base in Naarm/Melbourne, contributors interview, review, and cover the very best of what the world’s second-most liveable city has to offer. Whether it's film, fashion, photography or Fauvism you're into, Art Smitten is the place!
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Review: Duets - The Stain Theatre Troupe x La Mama Theatre
There will be some mildly sexual language and content throughout this review. If that might be a problem for you, tune out for the next five minutes or so - but, you'll be missing the breakdown of a great show. A live band of sorts, and performance goes with the music Duets is a show that will probably take you out of your theatre-comfort zone, unless you usually attend shows that include women performing suggestive acts with a banana and a tomato, or men in sequined morph suits gyrating to musi...
Aug 20, 2016•6 min
Review: The Mill on the Floss - Optic Nerve x Theatre Works
Mill on the Floss is a theatrical adaptation by Optic Nerve of the 1860 novel of the same name written by Mary Ann Evans under the pseudonym George Eliot. Optic Nerves adaption of Mill on the Floss was a theatrical re-telling of the story of Maggie Tulliver. This adaption is much the same as the book, it is set in 19th century England, and it spans across 10-15 years of Maggies life starting when Maggie was 9 years old. This story is about the oppression of Maggies imagination, intelligence and ...
Aug 10, 2016•7 min
Review: Kothanodi - Indian Film Festival Melbourne
For any fans of the fantasy genre, Bhaskar Hazarika's Kothanodi is a great entry point into this year’s Indian Film Festival. For anyone's who's not as keen on swords, dragons and castles, this adaptation of four classic Assamese folk tales is not that kind of fantasy movie. Taken from a compendium entitled Burhi Aair Sadhu (Grandma’s Tales) compiled by Lakshminath Bezbaroa, the stories all have a maternal relationship at their centre and a different harsh truth to deliver about motherhood. The ...
Aug 10, 2016•7 min
Review: The New Girl in Class - Indian Film Festival Melbourne
To say that The New Girl in Class is the weakest offering of the Indian Film Festival would be something of an understatement. Amrita Dasgupta's documentary on the life of a 9-year-old autistic girl is certainly never boring, but for all of the wrong reasons. The story that Dasgupta wants to tell and the story that she has actually documented are so embarrassingly different that the end result approaches the so-bad-it's-good territory. It is so perfect a manual on how not to represent autism tha...
Aug 03, 2016•6 min
Review: Milk Bars
Milk Bars in an installation and performance piece, it is based at The Mechanics Institute in Brunswick by Metanoia Theatre. The installation spread all across the Mechanics Institute, with five spaces and the theatre space being used as a central meeting point and bar that most audience members gravitated towards. The installation ranged from abstract to realistic interpretations of ‘a milk bar’ some were very interesting and beautiful, my favorite was the dressing room of the theatre that had ...
Aug 03, 2016•4 min
Interview: Jeff Wortman, Changes: A Theatrical Tribute to the Music of David Bowie
Christian and Beth are joined by Jeff Wortman, lead singer of Robot Child (Waleed Aly’s band) and the Musical Director of the production Changes: Theatrical Tribute to the Music of David Bowie. Changes will be performed until the 6th August at the Gasworks Theatre, 21 Graham St, Albert Park. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 03, 2016•7 min
Interview: Görkem Acaroglu, Milk Bars
Christian was joined by Görkem Acaroglu, director of live art installation piece, Milk Bars . It will be performed at the Mechanics Institute Brunswick, 270 Sydney Road Brunswick, from the 27th July to the 6th August. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2016•14 min
Review: Guernica, Melbourne Ballet Company
Guernica is a two-act ballet inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War in the nineteen-thirties. The Melbourne Ballet Company’s resident choreographer Simon Hoy brought his unique style of contemporary ballet combined with Prokofiev’s powerful original score. Guernica is part of the Company’s 2016 Premiere Season Intention and Desire . The body of work was inspired by the messages within Picasso’s famous mural of the same name. You will not get...
Jul 27, 2016•2 min
Review: Abigail/1702, Boutique Theatre
To anyone who's been holding out for a good theatrical sequel, Roberto Aguire Sacasa's Abigail/1702 is the latest member of that rare species. Picking up 10 years from the ending of its predecessor, Arthur Miller's The Crucible , Sacasa plucks out Miller's two-faced antagonist, Abigail Williams, and turns her into a very successful protagonist. The past decade has transformed the jealous young girl into a desperately puritanical young woman. Once a fierce denouncer in the Salem witch trials who ...
Jul 27, 2016•6 min
Review: The Servant of Two Masters, La Mama Theatre
Theatre company 'Make a Scene' alongside the La Mama Learning Company are currently presenting their interpretation of Carlo Goldoni's masterpiece 'The Servant of Two Master's. It is showing at Australia La mama theatre in Carlton until July 31st. The cast includes Christian Bagin, Sharon Davis, Roby Favretto, Irene del Pilar, Freya Pragt, Lelda Kapsis and Darcy Kent. Many actors play both a primary and a secondary or extra character, and the lightning quick costume changes became just as fun as...
Jul 27, 2016•5 min
Interview: Simon Hoy, Guernica
Reviewer, Caroline Tung, is joined by Simon Hoy, Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer at the Melbourne Ballet Company. They discuss the MBC's production of Guernica , based on Pablo Picasso's 1937 war mural and William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2016•19 min
Guide: Melbourne International Film Festival
Hello and welcome to the Art Smitten guide to the Melbourne International Film Festival. My name's Ben and I love films a bit too much. If you didn't know, the end of next week is the beginning of over two weeks of the Melbourne International Film Festival – or MIFF – as it takes over many of the screens in the city, and pushes film to the forefront of Melbourne's minds. There’s such a wide array of films in this year’s festival, so there’s bound to be something for everyone. Unless, of course, ...
Jul 27, 2016•3 min
Review: Retro Futurismus, fortyfivedonwstairs
Retro Futurismus is a sci-fi cabert, created by Anni and Maude Davey along with Anna Lumb, Gabi Barton and Teresa Blake, with new special guest stars performing every week. Retro Futurismus as been shown all over Australia to much acclaim and is now performing a new season at 45 Downstairs this month. Retro Futurismus transformed 45 down stairs into a feminie sci-fi wonderland. It was a beautiful, welcoming atmosphere, I was greeted by one of the performers and directed to a great seat where I w...
Jul 27, 2016•3 min
Review: Performance Management - In Cabaret
If you’ve ever felt that your office was one hoop short of a circus, Scott Hollingsworth’s Performance management is the cabaret that will speak to your funny bone. Hollingsworth’s one-man show is an outrageous, unapologetically offensive performance, that highlights the ridiculous in the mundane. The show came back for one night last Sunday, with minor alterations to last year’s performance. Set at the Southern star observation wheel in docklands, Scotts own SHHH Productions presented Performan...
Jul 27, 2016•2 min
Discussion: Abigail/1702
Hosts Jim and Christian, along with AP Thierry, discuss Abigail/1702 , the sequel to Arthur Miller's The Crucible . Boutique Theatre's production of Abigail/1702 , is being performed at the Victorian Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street Carlton from 14th July to 30th July. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2016•8 min
Interview: Samuel Tupou, Duplikator
Hosts Jim and Christian were joined in the studio by artist Samuel Tupou, who is opening his new art exhibition, Duplikator . Duplikator will be displayed at the Linden Art Gallery, 26 Acland Street St Kilda, from the 20th July to the 9th October. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2016•10 min
Interview: Anthony Weigh, Edward II
Hosts Christian and Jim are joined in the studio with playwright, Anthony Weigh, who spoke about his upcoming play Edward II , produced by Malthouse Theatre. It will be performed at the Merlyn Theatre, The Coopers Malthouse, 113 Sturt Street Southbank from the 29th July to the 21st August. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2016•9 min
Review: Adama - Australian Centre for the Moving Image x Melbourne International Film Festival
Never underestimate the power of a child's imagination. Children often understand much more than we think about our adult world. When confronted with something complex and scary, they seize upon what they do know and invent like crazy to fill in what they don't know. This is something every great children's storyteller understands, and something that I certainly hope first-time feature director Simon Rouby never loses sight of. His debut, Adama, takes on the task of showing the horrors of the ba...
Jul 20, 2016•5 min
Review: Heathen - Mailbox Art Space
I had never been to the Mailbox Art Space prior to their current exhibition, Heathen. Of 'Heathen', the promotional shots of the works gave me the impression of huge canvases filled with extravagant, thought provoking watercolours. After getting mildly lost in my own city looking for a gallery space on flinders lane, myself and a friend realised that we had to go up a flight of stairs tucked away at the 141-143 Flinders Lane Pawson House heritage building. The stairs were choked with people talk...
Jul 20, 2016•5 min
EXQUISITE CORPSE STORY - Season 2 2016
The moment you have all been waiting for – the line-by-line story created by this season’s Art Smitten guests IS FINALLY UNVEILED! Da da duuuuuum. Read aloud by Lauren Klein: Starting line: Sitting in a crowded cafe, he checked his watch anxiously… Omrane Khuder: He then noticed that his date was running late Paul Knox, Hannah Vanderheide and Jorge Tsipos: He knew she couldn’t be, because of the thing they had discussed. It had been a long discussion with many twists and turns. As he pondered, h...
Jul 11, 2016•4 min
Host Discussion: TED Talk - K-Pop
If you had to conduct a TED talk RIGHT NOW, what would it be on? What is your specialist/niche knowledge area? Well for host Erin, her TED talk would be about K-Pop from 2009 - 2013! Erin even teaches Lauren some handy Korean phrases. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 11, 2016•4 min
Interview: Declan Greene, Conviction
Hosts Lauren and Erin were joined in the studio with former SYNner DECLAN GREENE – the director and dramaturg of the world premiere show CONVICTION , “a caustically funny examination of contemporary feminism and self-authorship”. Declan is also the 2016 Resident Artist at the Malthouse Theatre. CONVICTION is being performed at the Northcote Town Hall, Main Hall 189 High Street Northcote starting the 21st July to 6th August. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 11, 2016•15 min
Review: Revolting and Ridiculous - A Roald Dahl Retrospective
Christian and Andrew review The Wheeler Centre’s one night only event Revolting and Ridiculous: A Roald Dahl Retrospective . The event took place at the Athenaeum Theatre on July 7th. "This year marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth – so the Wheeler Centre will get revolting and ridiculous on stage with guests including Andy Griffiths, Jess McGuire, Kate McLennan, Tim Rogers, Anna Burke and more. They’ll wax nostalgic, perform extracts from Dahl’s vast body of work, delve into the re...
Jul 11, 2016•11 min
Review: Hitchcock/Truffaut & Dial M for Murder
The 1966 book Hitchcock/Truffau t was as intriguing and exciting a read as its title suggested. Based on Francois Truffaut's 8-day interview with Alfred Hitchcock, it offered readers the chance to feel like a fly on the wall for the meeting of two of the most avant-garde film directors of the decade. At the time of their meeting at Hitchcock's Universal Studios office in 1962, the British auteur had recently released his fortieth feature, the hugely successful Psycho , while the young man from a...
Jul 11, 2016•6 min
Review: Courage To Kill, La Mama Theatre
La Mama Theatre is an ideal place to host the Australian premiere production of Lars Noren’s Courage to Kill. This tense two-hander, sometimes three-hander, from Sweden’s most celebrated playwright definitely works best in an intimate venue. It is one of those many plays that take place entirely in a domestic setting, in this case inside a young man’s apartment that he is forced to share with his father. While in some plays this makes the home seem like a bigger, grander place for having been th...
Jul 11, 2016•4 min
Review: Cut The Sky, Marrugeku Theatre
Cut The Sky is a dance theatre work by Marrugeku Theatre. It is in interdisciplinary work combining dance, video, poetry and song. Cut The Sky is part of the ‘Performing Climates’ for the Performance Studies International Conference or PSI hosted by Arts House. This year PSI is in Melbourne and it focus is on making conversations and exploring climate change though the lens of performance. Cut The Sky is an intercultural exploration of how climate change is affecting the earth. It explores what ...
Jul 11, 2016•3 min
Review: Come Away with Me to the End of the World, Ranters Theatre
Come Away with Me to the End of the World by Ranters theatre was a series of conversations between nameless characters on stage. The actors seemed to be playing nobody or themselves - they talked of seemingly random things like their trip to Japan or the Italian dance classes they were taking, or meeting someone while going for a morning jog. Some of these conversations were mundane or even boring, some were absurd and surreal, some were long and winding, some were very short, and some conversat...
Jul 11, 2016•4 min
Review: Our Kind of Traitor
Our Kind of Traitor may well be the least confusing film adaptation of a John le Carré novel that we are ever going to see. If you enjoy political thrillers but don't exactly the have the head for real, convoluted espionage, Susanna White's film is sure to be the thing for you. Unlike the rather cold and brittle Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , this story of a man about to inform on the Russian mafia has a much stronger human element, one that often even takes precedence over the political machinatio...
Jul 11, 2016•5 min
EXQUISITE CORPSE STORY - SEASON 1 2016
This season Art Smitten asked each guest to contribute a sentence to an ongoing story. Guests were only read the previous contributed line of the story. The end product was read aloud by producer Lauren on the last show of season 1, Sunday April 10th. STARTING SENTENCE: Sarah didn't know what to expect when she walked in... Gemma Flack : She glanced around the room and noticed a strange triangular mound in the corner. Erkki Veltheim : In this mound there is a very small door with a very small ke...
Jul 09, 2016•4 min
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