Short Blanket is a play that challenged hegemonic ideals of patriarchy, racism, and violence. A play that challenged my own biases and experiences different to my own.
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To grapple with the perennial question of the future is an onerous task on a good day. In a world plagued by climate change, enduring coloniality, racism, a regression of women’s rights and the rise of nationalism, this query only becomes all the more daunting. Try making the discourse comedic, and you are venturing into shaky territory.
Although the play could have purely been a Spice Girls fan piece, Girl Band hits much deeper, showcasing the experiences of being a young woman.
Director Nathan Maynard’s depictions of Country and competing histories was eye-opening, and inspired discussion during and after the show.
With works like That’s What She Said, we can unlearn conditions we’ve been taught to accept and begin to conceive of a society without the prevalence of sexual assault.
It is in this constant back-and-forth between structural inequality and personal resistance which Evaristo locates her personal voice, rippling like a moonlit breeze through the eclipsed amphitheatre.
It was incredibly refreshing and gratifying to see a predominantly BIPOC cast take over and own the stage, especially when Australia’s musical theatre scene is so overwhelmingly white. Musicals that have played in Sydney such as Hamilton and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, pave the way and give hope for more culturally diverse talents gracing Australia’s live stages in the present and near future.
Opposing neoliberalism, austerity and privatisation is important for the left, but our vision for the future is fundamentally disastrous if we only ask for what we once had.
Time and again it has been shown that Fruity Lexia does indeed make you sexier. But how do different goon bags taste?
Grant and I spoke about Country — the notion of a place which transcends something as simple as geography. It is who we are, it is everything that we are.
