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57 Available Episodes (57 Total)Average duration: 00:38:27
Apr 21, 2023
Ep 56 - After Sun, Queerstralia
00:36:37
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.
Feb 15, 2023
Ep 55 - The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven, Tár
00:43:32
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.
Cover image of Kristen Smyth as Jesus, Queen of Heaven by Daniel Rabin
Dec 23, 2022
Ep 54 - Paul Yore (ACCA), Lele
00:37:11
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 <3.
Credits
Produced and recorded by Carla Donnelly and Philip Thiel
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
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!
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.
Ep 49 - Handa Opera La Traviata, The Power of the Dog
00:38:02
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.
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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!
May 20, 2019
Ep 47 - The Aspie Hour, Single Asian Female
00:36:55
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.
Apr 21 | 00:36:37
Ep 56 - After Sun, Queerstralia
Feb 15 | 00:43:32
Ep 55 - The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven, Tár
Dec 23 | 00:37:11
Ep 54 - Paul Yore (ACCA), Lele
Nov 08 | 00:41:46
Ep 53 - Memoir of a Tired Carer, Sunshine Super Girl
Oct 02 | 00:36:42
Ep 52 - Shadow, Give Me Pity!
Aug 27 | 00:40:42
Ep 51 - Light (ACMI), Looking for Alibrandi
Jul 13 | 00:38:41
Ep 50 - QUEER (NGV), Titicut Follies (ACMI)
Mar 19 | 00:38:02
Ep 49 - Handa Opera La Traviata, The Power of the Dog
Jul 02 | 00:41:21
Ep 48 - FINALE - Daddy, Blood Quantum
May 20 | 00:36:55
Ep 47 - The Aspie Hour, Single Asian Female
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