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Essay: why did fanfic only become lame when girls started doing it?
Lily was once a committed fangirl. [YOUR NAME] is a play about fanfiction, that Lily’s directing at KXT on Broadway. Read her essay about both of those things here.
Interview: getting philosophical with Teresa Tate Britten
Teresa Tate Britten (pictured, far right) is from Tennant Creek. Her acting career is her “signpost message to the world”, and her next show, Human Activity, is an important one. Read her chat about it with Clare here!
Essay: I wrote a play about vagina dentata and all I got was empathy for men
Erica wakes up every morning wanting nothing more than to tell the best stories she can. She’s written a play about women who grow teeth in their vaginas, called The Hero Leaves One Tooth. Read her essay about the process here.
Review: Dumb Kids is a funny and tender play
Bec was a queer teenager once. Dumb Kids is a play by Jacob Parker about growing up queer. Read Bec’s review of it here!
Kaleidoscope Recs: the best theatre made by women and non-binary folk coming up in May/June
Lily Hayman can’t keep away from the theatre. She runs Purple Tape Productions with Tyler Fitzpatrick, which aims to give opportunities to women and gender diverse artists. Check out her recommendations for five (plus a bonus!) shows made by women and gender diverse artists coming up this May/June.
Interview: A sprinkle of feminine rage with Lucy Heffernan
Clare loves a good chat with endless tangents. Lucy Heffernan’s one-woman show, Party Girl, is playing this week at Purple Tape’s TAPE OVER festival at KXT on Broadway. Read Clare’s interview with Lucy here!
Review: All His Beloved Children is a sermon in mythmaking
Charlotte went to a Catholic school and was forced to write an essay on sin in Year 9 Religion. All His Beloved Children is a play about myths, morals, and how we twist them for our purposes. Read Charlotte’s review of it here!
Review: Gundog is brilliant and bleak
Bec likes to hurt her own feelings. Gundog is a brilliant and bleak work, the despair of which seeps into you for days after you’ve left the theatre. Read Bec’s review of it here
Kaleidoscope Recs: five bits of theatre that aren’t afraid to go big
Richard Hilliar is a person who believes you should go to the theatre to see capital T THEATRE. He’s also the writer/director of Apocka-wocka-lockalypse, a play with puppets singing about climate collapse. Check out his recommendations for five bits of theatre that aren’t afraid to go big coming up this March/April.
Essay: Nobody Special knows how to be alone
MKA theatre brought their show for one audient to KXT on Broadway’s Vault in January. Charlotte the theatre critic doesn’t know how to be alone, or how to write about anything without inserting themselves into the narrative. This is an essay about Charlotte’s experience of Nobody Special, the show, and not being special, the life.
Kaleidoscope’s 2022 Round Up: the art that changed the course of our year
We asked some of our writers to tell us about the pieces of art that changed the course of their year in 2022. We don’t believe in “best”, but we do believe in the power of well-made, exciting bits of creativity to make us feel things. Read about some of them here!
Review: Tongue Tied has trouble focusing on its real subject
There are so many stories about journalists out there, it’s sometimes hard to make your mark. Read Charlotte’s review of brand new Australian play Tongue Tied, about Mia the journalist, here.