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Review: Metropolis challenges what a musical can be
Charlotte likes musicals that do something new. Metropolis is a dystopian musical written in six months by the brilliant team at Little Eggs Collective. Read Charlotte’s review of it here.
Essay: Belvoir’s Into the Woods demonstrates musical theatre’s constant dilemma
Charlotte is on a mission to intellectualise musical theatre. Belvoir’s new version of Into the Woods is smart and exciting, but ultimately not confident enough in its vision to create something new. Read Charlotte’s review/essay about it here.
Essay: on performing the oldest profession
Maddy is a sex worker of many kinds and a musical theatre performer of many other kinds. Sometimes she’s even performed as a sex worker in a musical, and she’s sick of the harmful way sex work is shown on the stage, screen and elsewhere. Read her essay about it here.
Essay: the newest production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is shocking but it’s not surprising
Maddy is an Australian musical theatre performer who’s shocked, but not surprised, about the atrocities in the production of Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat that’s currently touring Australia. Read her full essay on the role of actors and institutions in it’s making here.