Dramageddon - Broadwave
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Episodes
Melbourne Writers' Festival
August 14, 2020 14:27 - 77.7 MBDramageddon is a genre-bending choose- your-own-adventure podcast created by playwright Jean Tong and comedian Lou Wall. Each episode pits two queer people against the climate apocalypse in 2050. This MWF-themed special tests Candy Bowers and Nevo Zisin on their survival skills, forcing them to address ethical questions such as: write or run? Publish or punish? Paperback or zombie snack? It’s the end of the world; bring on the Dramageddon! Produced by Xen Nhà with Queen Victoria Women’s C...
Day 0
May 24, 2020 04:37 - 46.2 MBThis episode takes us all the way back to Day 0, as comedians Zoë Coombs Marr and Nina Oyama emerge from an isolated three month getaway to find the world unlike how they left it. The pair battle generational differences, debate the perks of never having to shit again, and figure out how to survive when the apocalypse first hits. Zoë Coombs Marr is a performer, writer and comedian. Her work has been seen everywhere from stinky garages to the Sydney Opera House. Her latest comedy hour, Boss...
Day 735
May 17, 2020 06:08 - 38.5 MBIt’s all aboard for performers Carly Sheppard and Tahlee Fereday as they jump on a cruise ship to escape the zombie plague that’s taking over land and sea. Join them for rats, cruise ship orgies, and zombie physiology getting in the way of their final plan. Based in Melbourne, Carly Sheppard is an Indigenous dancer and choreographer descending from the Wallangamma and Takalaka Tribes of North QLD. After studying at NAISDA Dance College and the Victorian College of the Arts, Carly has been ...
Year 96
May 07, 2020 03:15 - 59.7 MBPlaywright Morgan Rose and writer/editor Roz Bellamy discuss the weirdest ways to escape awkward pick-ups at the bar, how educators can support the next generation of change-makers, and how to talk big and difficult ideas with young people. Morgan Rose is an internationally produced playwright, performance maker, and dramaturg. Her writing is sad-funny/funny-sad, with a focus on the absurdity of the contemporary world. She was a recipient of the INK writing commission with Red Stitch Actors...
Day 800
May 02, 2020 04:07 - 44.2 MBIt's a real funny or die world for comedians Geraldine Hickey and Anna Piper Scott in their plight to see if stand up comedy has it's place in Dramageddon. The pair talk Adelaide Fringe (pre- and post- apocalypse), how to handle a heckler and deliver a rousing rendition of "To Be With You" by Mr Big. But will they deliver a killer set - or be killed by their set? Geraldine Hickey is an Australian comedian best known as co-host of the Breakfasters program on Melbourne’s beloved community rad...
Day 45
April 23, 2020 01:46 - 59.3 MBTrapped in an enforced quarantine, married couple Mia MacDonald and Steph Hughes discuss being “crafty with finding sperm”, tiny cock viruses, how to keep milk cold in a world with no fridges, and divorce! Mia Mala McDonald is a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Mia is deeply interested in people and this is the real essence of her work. Her process allows her to see things in a new way, small things in the way people behave and she strives to disclose these intimate personal narr...
Day 635
April 16, 2020 00:39 - 51.6 MBSecret martial artists (and theatre artists) Sapidah Kian and Natesha Somasundaram get into the nitty gritty of totalitarian leadership, cannibalism as punishment, and tickle torture - as the new leaders of the post-Apocalyptic Mt-Dandenong -Hotel-slash-lesbian-commune. Sapidah Kian is a director, actor, theatre maker and dramaturg, working across theatre, film, television, and radio. Since 2014, she has been a lecturer in acting and directing at the Victorian College of the Arts. She was D...
Day 267
April 09, 2020 09:07 - 45.4 MBMulti-disciplinary artists Lara Thoms and Danielle Reynolds discuss anxiety diarrhoea, emetophobia, and improvise Apocalypse acrostic poems to say goodbye - all while trying to get some good farming technique going to survive Dramageddon. For a full transcript of this episode, head to this link. Lara Thoms is a multi-disciplinary artist who is interested in the socially engaged, site-specific and participatory possibilities of contemporary art and performance. Lara regularly works with non...
Day 69
April 09, 2020 07:31 - 46.1 MBSinger Mama Alto and poet Fury forge through an Apocalyptic Melbourne as hunter-gatherers - while self-ranking the Dramageddon stank and sharing the best way to survive a live-shooter situation. For a full transcript of this episode, head to this link. Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste & gender transcendent diva. She is a transgender & queer person of colour who works with the radical potential of storytelling, strength in softness and power in vulnerability. Website | Instagram...
Trailer: Dramageddon is coming
April 03, 2020 06:01 - 1.55 MBQueen Victoria Women's Centre and Broadwave present Dramageddon, created by Jean Tong and Lou Wall and recorded at Castaway Studios. Created before we found ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, Dramageddon is the perfect slice of satire to distract you from the world right now. Find out more about Dramageddon, and read the Q&A with podcast creators Jean and Lou
Meet Jean and Lou: Creators of Dramageddon
April 03, 2020 00:42Meet Jean Tong and Lou Wall, the creators of Dramageddon