arts podcast

Virginia and Louise dive into four new releases some of them from our favourite authors!  

They also encourage everyone to get their hands on Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt for a bookclub deep dive episode coming up.  

Books  

The Fraud, Zadie Smyth, 2023, Hamish Hamilton Penguin  

Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Kate Atkinson, 2023, Penguin Random House  

Tom Lake, Ann Patchett, 2023, Harper Collins  

Pearl, Sian Hughes, 2023 UQP  

London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency: A Memoir, Kate MacDougall, 2021 William Morrow  

Salt River Road, Molly Schmidt, 2023 Fremantle Press  

Streaming  

Welcome to Wrexham, Disney  

Podcasts  

The Whistleblowers, ABC Background Briefing

Virginia and Louise have read a swag of newly released books both well-known authors and others new  - and only some with the hype they deserve.

Books

Yellowface  R F Kuang Harper Collins 2023

Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead    2023

The Sitter Angela O’ Keefe Queensland University Press 2023

Old God’s Time Sebastian Barry 2023

Podcasts

The Trial of Lucy Letby UK The Mail Metro Media

Inside Design Jane Ledger

Theatre

‘A Twelfth Night’ - Bell Shakespeare Company 

Get ready for a wild and exhilarating episode as Natalie and Darren dive into the sensational world of Choir of Man. They'll discuss the Olivier-nominated, worldwide smash hit that continues to captivate audiences at the Arts Theatre in the heart of London's West End. Billed as the best night in your local you've ever had, it's a party, a concert, and a lock-in like no other. Get ready to be blown away by breath-taking reinventions of chart-topping hits from artists including Guns'N'Roses, Fun!, Adele, Avicii, Paul Simon, Sia, and many more. The Choir of Man truly has something for everyone! This episode also includes an exclusive interview with cast members Conor Hanley, who plays the Poet, and Mark Irwin, who plays the Barman. Tune in for a high-energy episode filled with incredible music, lively conversations, and a behind-the-scenes look at this phenomenal production. Brew some Jasmine tea and ready to join the ultimate party and experience the magic of Choir of Man like never before!

The second stage of the Superfan Attraction Method is purpose driven content. In this episode I review the various steps that fall under content creation including identifying and engaging with your potential superfans, building your online homebase, creating a social media system, telling your stories, creating photos and videos.

Triple-threat Andy Cook is one of Australia’s greatest showmen with a string of major musical credits to his name including Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Strictly Ballroom, Oklahoma and Chicago.

But when COVID hit moments after he’d achieved a new career high – announced as the villainous Duke in the Australian premiere production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical – Andy’s personal and professional life was thrown into turmoil. 

“I felt like I constantly spent time inside for two years and was an artist sometimes… I remember going to the airport and having severe anxiety about being outside of my house.” 

In this podcast, Andy talks honestly about COVID’s mental health toll, the personal sacrifices of life on the road and taking back control of his artistic voice. 

“Often you feel like you can’t say no when you really need to… If you just jump from gig to gig, you’ve blinked and you’ve missed everything… You start to become resentful of the job, and you never want that as an artist.” 

 
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GUEST: Andy Cook, Australian music theatre star 

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In this episode your hosts, Bianca Schulz and Bronwyn Craddock, tackle the ongoing debate of Instagram and the role it plays in our lives. Is it necessary to maintain a social media presence for our careers as performers? Or do the negative mental effects of it outweigh the pros? We discuss how we can create a healthier relationship with social media: how it can be helpful but also detrimental, and how can we find a balance.

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In this episode, I talk with Artist, Musician and Educator, Paige Clark Perkinson. Paige was a working actor, when she decided to start her family. She talks about her struggles with anxiety and depression while her son was still in her belly, and how after he was born, she found herself questioning if the decision to create a family meant that parts of her would have to disappear. “Things were fine for a while. And then it came time to get back in the game and start acting again. And then there was this whole piece of guilt about where I spent my time. And I felt there was this resistance of my identity being limited to only a mother from then on. I had to say that I was an actor. I am an artist. How dare you? I got really defensive for a while.”

Paige talks about raising her son, who is one quarter Korean, when both she and her mother weren’t raised in the Korean culture. “It’s been a weird experience to be singled out and excluded for something that I really don’t feel a part of. I don’t get the benefits of being part of a community. But I get the detriments of being excluded, because I look like I’m part of that community.”

What started as Paige’s “day job” working as an arts educator, has now become her primary focus. She is still an artist, she is still an actor, she is still a musician, but they have moved to the background of her life. She loves her students, she loves her job, but she acknowledges the little deaths she has had to go through in her life. “I am mourning expectations, mourning the loss of these hopes. That’s definitely how I would describe even my reaction to wanting a girl but having a boy. I was mourning the expectation. And I will be happy about what I do get. But first I need to mourn the change.”

Highlights from Paige:

"Whether it's at nine in the morning, and they're asleep or it's at eight o'clock at night, when we're in tech rehearsal and tensions are running high, I think about using my powers for good. Theater tips over into the realm of non-academic. It gets really personal and emotional and I thrive on being there for them. I gives me purpose, it gives me meaning."

"So that's how I'm approaching having a quarter racial, Korean son— helping him notice the differences in other kids around him. We live in a diverse neighborhood, I think, and in the summertime, he'll say, 'Oh their skin is brown' and I will tell him that yes, some people's skin is brown, some is peach, some is very dark and that is all okay."

"I wish at 18 I had believed that. I wish I could have stood in my own beauty and my own power at that age. Saying it now, I think I'm definitely trying to more mindfully do that for myself.  I am 35. I weigh more now than I did when I was 18. But I can still say, "You're beautiful. You're enough. You look great. "

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Artist and art therapist Laura talks movingly to host Frances about the often-demanding but rewarding practice of clinical, psychotherapy-based art therapy.

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Recorded January 2022
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Hello 2022! Please be kind. Our offering for the new year is a closer look at local versions of international reality TV blockbusters: Drag Race and The Real Housewives, aka brand Benjamin Law.

First up, RuPaul’s ride-or-die Michelle Visage dropped by ahead of the inaugural season of Drag Race Down Under.

Then, Brian Moylan on his tell-all book about the Real Housewives reality TV empire, followed by actual Real Housewives of Melbourne, Jackie Gillies and Cherry Dipietrantonio.

Settle in for deep and meaningful chats with two of our favourite Stop Everything! guests of 2021: screenwriter and director Steven Canals and singer, songwriter and artist Ngaiire.

Steven reflects on the end of Pose, the award-winning series hailed as ground breaking for trans representation. Steven shares what it was like to be in the room when series lead Billy Porter shared his HIV status with the cast and crew of Pose, and his view of the current TV landscape.

Ngaiire discusses the release of her long-awaited album ‘3’ which puts her Papua New Guinean roots front and centre in a conversation covering music, motherhood, home and breaking free of industry expectations.

Remember that window in 2021 when there were few covid cases, no lockdowns and people could travel across state borders? Yeah! That actually happened, and during that blessed window, we hosted a show, live, from the Sydney Writers Festival.

Ok sure, BW was beamed in via a giant screen on stage, but three out of four people on a stage ain’t bad.

In this RN summer highlight, BW + BL talk to Carly Findlay, editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia, and Sam van Zweden, the author of Eating With My Mouth Open in a conversation covering the body, disability, fatness – and the medicalisation, language and politics around these things.

If you need support or to talk to someone. The Butterfly Foundation is a site where you can find resources for eating disorders and body image: www.butterfly.org.au

Lifeline is also available 24 hours: https://www.lifeline.org.au/

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This entrepreneur podcast is an extension of their real-life experiences as business owners, salaried employees and industry mavericks who made mistakes along the way and lived to talk about it.

WE SPEAK TO: Darryl Lim

A performer, deviser, playwright and researcher. In 2016, he founded Split Theatre, a Singapore theatrical production house that focuses on developing stories from the personal experiences of its actors, with an emphasis on creating original, process-driven and ensemble-focused works. 

He is hosting the "Don't Cancer Me Can" production will run from 18 - 21 December at The Arts House (2pm and 8pm shows for 18th - 19th, and 8pm shows for 20th - 21st), with ticket prices going for S$35.00 each. Tickets  here: https://tinyurl.com/DontCancer-Split 

He is also hosting a 10-week Work On The Self Program.

DRINKING:

• David: Three Foxes Negroni
• Terng: Blue Moon Belgian White 300 mL
• Darryl: Pokka Oolong Tea

WE CHAT ABOUT:

• Why and how he started Split Theatre
• How Split Theatre is giving the people of Singapore “a voice”
• The “you matter’ philosophy
• How participating in Split Theatre works
• David’s fascination with Leonardo DiCaprio
• The teaching style of Jerzy Grotowski
• Split Theatre’s 10-Week Work On Self program
• Jokes about MLM (Multi Level Marketing)
• How Split Theatre markets itself
• Darryl’s experience with lymphoma
• Using theatre to discover who we are and accepting other people

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
• I and Though by Martin Buber
• Visit our book recommendations section for more books from our guests

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It’s the year 10191. We’re folding time and space and going deep on the science fiction classic, Dune.

We start with Frank Herbert’s best-selling 1965 novel, make a pit stop at David Lynch’s indelible and sometimes inscrutable 1984 screen adaptation, and finally contemplate Denis Villeneuve’s star-studded 2021 release of Dune part one. 

Science fiction author and Dune scholar Haris Durrani and film critic Luke Goodsell join BW at the High Council to discuss everything from battle pugs to the deep Islamic and Arabic references of the source material.  

And BL is haunted by Kendall Roy’s terrible birthday party and late capitalism in the latest episode of Succession.

Show notes:

The Guardian remembers David Dalaithngu: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/30/david-dalaithngu-obituary-walkabout-star-a-consummate-actor-who-helped-reinvent-australian-film?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Haris Durrani Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/28/dune-muslim-influences-erased/

Haris Durrani's Medium article: https://hdernity.medium.com/gurney-halleck-the-moor-or-othello-in-space-682bfd99c760

Luke Goodsell's Dune review: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/dune-review-denis-villeneuve-sci-fi-epic/100659654

Succession season 3 episode 7 recap: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/succession-season-3-episode-7/620816/

Lynsey Warren is the owner and creator at Raindrop Crafts, as well as a handmade business coach and virtual craft fair organiser. As a youngster Lynsey loved art class at school, and doing craft activities at home, but she decided not to complete her Art A-Level and settled into a routine of office working.
Lynsey continued to dabble with crafting, from cross-stitch to making her own cards, but it was on a visit to a friend's house that she stumbled upon what would become her new creative passion, a craft that would literally take her on a magical journey.

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(We nearly named this episode: It’s Billy Porter, b*tches!)

Emmy, Grammy and Tony-award winner Billy Porter is in the House of Stop Everything! to talk about his new memoir, Unprotected (Abrams).

The icon of stage, television and the red carpet speaks candidly about trauma and healing, going public with his HIV status, playing Pray Tell and his passion for fashion (2019 Oscars tuxedo gown, we see you and we honour you).

Show notes:

Unprotected: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/books/review/unprotected-billy-porter.html

Pose: https://binge.com.au/shows/show-pose!1230

Billy Porter's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theebillyporter/

Billy Porter's Emmy win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NA7BpvnRMA

Billy Porter does Broadway Karaoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NA7BpvnRM

UK Drag Race’s breakout star Bimini Bon-Boulash is on Stop Everything! to talk about their new book, Release the Beast, nonbinary representation on television, loving yourself and being vegan, haha!

We’re also celebrating Brooke Blurton, the Bachelorette’s First Nations, bisexual lead. It’s not just a first for Australian television but a worldwide first for the long running franchise.

Also: proles and Pru; and BL + BW’s take on Dave Chappelle’s controversial Netflix comedy special, The Closer.

Show notes:

Bimini Bon-Boulash instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biminibabes/?hl=en

The Bachelorette recap: https://punkee.com.au/the-bachelorette-2021-premiere-tweets/132678

Pru Goward's AFR column: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/don-t-underestimate-the-underclass-20211018-p5910c

Pru Goward AFR column on ‘underclass’ condemned as disturbing and abusive: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/20/pru-goward-afr-column-on-underclass-condemned-as-disturbing-and-abusive

Dave Chappelle’s The Closer walkout: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-21/netflix-workers-walk-out-over-dave-chappelle-special-the-closer/100556538

Hannah Gadsby on Netflix and Chappelle :https://www.instagram.com/p/CVCiLl9FWoB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Dahlia Belle's letter to Chappelle in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix

Social media’s ablaze over Who is the Bad Art Friend, aka “the kidney story,” the New York Times Magazine long read chronicling a very extra saga about live kidney donation, friendship, white saviours, allegations of plagiarism, artistic license and, horror of horrors — the publication of group chat texts.

If you’re wondering whether to read the 9,500-plus word piece, rest easy, BL + BW have done the heavy lifting and happily unpack the entrails for you.

Twenty years after the release of Mariah Carey’s Glitter, we’re taking another look at the infamous box office flop and asking, did the critics really get it right back then, or do the haters need to GTFO? With Maria Lewis, ACMI assistant curator, author and Mariah Carey superlamb.

Also: what’s the connection between anti-vax protests in New York City and Australia? And what’s next for Britney Spears now that her father Jamie’s been suspended from her conservatorship?

Show notes:

Who’s The Bad Art Friend?: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html

ACMI Glitter watch party: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/acmi-watch-party/glitter/

Crowds of anti-vaccine protesters chant 'save Australia' during rally in New York: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/crowds-of-anti-vaccine-protesters-chant-save-australia-during-rally-in-new-york/cbfa3a6b-300b-4ad8-82c6-ef8fb94db80a

Hey, it’s Ben Lee! The singer songwriter recently unmasked on The Masked Singer Australia joins BL + BW to talk about his turn on reality TV, his new single Born for this Bullshit and its sexy video clip, the pandemic (blargh) and, well, it’s Ben Lee so a whole bunch of other topics too.

The Television Academy continues to disappoint us with its conservative choices at the Emmys; The Crown will continue interminably until a republic is declared. We want justice for Michaela Cole and Pen15 but we are glad that Jean Smart won for Hacks.

Also: The Newsreader finale delivers; Ben Law sings Horses, Daryl Braithwaite’s iconic cover of Rickie Lee Jones’ original song.

Show notes:Ben Lee backs the COVID-19 vaccine: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/ben-lee-backs-music-industry-covid-19-vaccination-campaign/100439498

Lil Nas X song "That's what I want": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYDRA5JPLEEmmys recap: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/emmys-2021-ted-lasso-mare-of-easttown-the-crown-best-moments/100475934

We have tweet manifested our way into an interview with Simu Liu! The star of Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Marvel's first Asian-led superhero film, talks to BW about playing the historic role, preparing for the film's intricate fight scenes and what it's like to act opposite living legends of Asian cinema, Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung.

"Did it hurt? When your attempt at a meme backfired? Yes it did 😩” ABC youth broadcaster triple J had to walk back an attempt at humour this week after a tweet from the station set off a conversation about ageism and sexism in the music music industry plus other mishaps on the internet this week (Warren Mundine, we're looking at you).

Also: Please don't call WA Premier Mark McGowan "State Daddy;" we look to nature and wholesome reality TV for respite from interminable lockdowns.

Show notes:

Simu Liu twitter: https://twitter.com/SimuLiu/status/1431154869902118912

triple J's "did it hurt?" tweet: ttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/01/ageism-is-alive-and-well-triple-j-lampooned-for-insulting-tweet

Warren Mundine's C word tweet: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sbs-board-member-warren-mundine-apologises-for-expletive-tweet-20210901-p58nts.html

Back to Nature: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/back-to-nature

Nature Track: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/nature-track/

Beauty and the Geek: https://www.9now.com.au/beauty-and-the-geek-australia/season-7/episodes

With the release of her long-awaited album ‘3’ singer-songwriter Ngaiire is putting her Papua New Guinean roots proudly and defiantly at the front and centre of her music. Ngaiire returns to Stop Everything in a conversation with BW covering music, motherhood, home and breaking free of industry expectations.

BW + BL discuss The Chair, the Netflix show starring Sandra Oh as Dr Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman of colour to chair the English department at prestigious (and fictional) Pembroke University, and the minor feelings the series engenders.

Also: The Croods enter the pandemic discourse; Kyle MacLachlan’s Aussie accent; will The Wiggles really go broke for going woke?

Show notes:

Ngaiire: http://www.ngaiire.com/

Sandra Oh on The Chair: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/sandra-ohs-masterly-performance-of-empathy-in-the-chair

Kyle McLachlan in hotel quarantine: https://twitter.com/Kyle_MacLachlan/status/1429920647564742667?s=19

The Wiggles Fruit Salad TV trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wII8eRBFiiw