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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 31/08/2026

"theatre is useless."wrong! here's 14 shows challenging the status quo that you won't wanna miss this september in narrm (melbourne)

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 31/08/2026

i just find backlash against arts criticism so funny. like do you really think it's better if we never say anything negative? ur audiences may not be posting about it but they definitely won't be coming back!

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 30/08/2026

theatre shouldn’t only be for the rich BUT artists deserve to make a buck. so here's how i price my tickets as an indie fringe producer trying to balance my beliefs and my budgets.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 25/08/2026

Theatre in this country has an affordability problem, and I just don't see how we can defend an artform that charges $104 dollars to see theatre about working class lives. What's theatre for if the only people who can access it are those with privilege? (I saw Break of Day at Malthouse Theatre).

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 24/08/2026

As much as I complain about theatre longer than an hour, I do really love shows that deliberately take up time. I saw a production of The Inheritance a couple years ago which was a six-hour epic about gay people and one of these characters died of AIDS in the first act and then FIVE HOURS LATER…

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 23/08/2026

When I was a bit younger, a bit more naive, I thought that theatre shouldn't just comment on politics things. It had to materially do something to change the world as well. What I have learned is that performance isn't going to materially save the world.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 30/07/2026

if you live in narrm (melbourne), here's eleven shows you need to see in august which aren't important musical theatre slop (who the fuck can afford $150 to sit in a dress circle anyways)—as compiled by a theatre critic who sees 200+ shows a year.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 20/06/2026

Here's the top ten shows you need to see this July in Narrm (Melbourne) which you won't see advertised on the side of a bus (yes, this is a Book of Mormon subtweet). My credentials: I've seen 126 shows so far this year lol.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 19/05/2026

the only escape the slop might be live theatre, so, i found the 7 most exciting shows you're gonna want to see irl (if you're in Narrm/Melbourne this June)

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 13/05/2026

I've gone through the entire RISING program and found the 9 shows you won't want to miss out on that are coming to Narrm's big international festival of new art, music, and performance. Here you go 👇

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 12/05/2026

literally I have never understood the golden ratio hype. like i really think if you try hard enough you can fit a spiral in any rectangle

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 29/04/2026

At the risk of sounding like a 45 year old gay man, I love Madonna!!!!

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 28/04/2026

I cannot believe I missed the Heartbreak High hype. Just finished S1E2 and I'm obsessedddd. How good is Australian media when it's given the support to excel???

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 28/04/2026

May is dripping with excellent theatre to see in Narrm so this list of nine shows you have to catch this month was soooo hard to make. But I did it, so here are my top picks for theatre to see to expand your mind:

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 10/03/2026

I'm so fucking keen for this show—created and performed by Cheng Lei, an Australian journalist who was detained in China for 1154 days. The team is wildly exciting and I'm just so keen for political theatre that comes up against the dangers of state censorship!! www.artshouse.com.au/events/1...

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1154 Days - Arts House

A raw and riveting theatrical reflection on freedom, resilience and creativity. While working as a journalist in China, one morning Cheng Lei was lured to work...

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 10/03/2026

saw a delightful show called Back to Te Maunga at La Mama on the weekend and wow I just loved it!! a gorgeous new Māori play about brotherhood and how the past bears down on us and colonialism I am a proud hater of realism but Joel Te Teira's lovely layered script cracked my anti-realism heart.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 09/03/2026

Melbourne Comedy Festival is sooooo soon (and I'm so excited) — I'm planning on writing a daily newsletter/diary during the festival as I try to catch 50+ shows in a couple weeks (lol) wrote up some details and my thinking about this little project on my blog www.ryanhamilton.work/your-vi...

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Your visa to Gag City has been approved, chuckle f*cker

Introducing a pop-up newsletter full of my coverage of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 09/03/2026

i actually don't think you can participate in opera/ballet/chalamet discourse if you don't actually see opera or ballet lol

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 09/03/2026

just watched a video of a hot air balloon flight over narrm and i just think if i ever go on one of them i would end up an emotional sobbing wreck at the majesty of this stupid city i call home. sorry for loving narrm!!!

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 15/01/2026

Thinking about what it means to praise art. I’m less interested in technical excellence than I am in art that represents the cultural/political world I want to live in. I want to say ‘this art belongs and should be our artistic baseline moving forward.’ Sort of using taste as a way to make utopia.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 01/11/2025

i wrote a big scary essay/review about a show i saw at Melbourne Fringe but maybe it’s actually about how we change things and how monash uni fucked me up and also how i have voted in every single election i’ve been a part of. 🔗 www.ryanhamilton.work/we-get-to-de...

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We Get to Decide How We Live Through It

Reviewing ‘Democracy Repair Services’ by Noemie Huttner-Koros, directed by Martha Latham, presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2025

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Arts criticism & journalism being reduced to marketing is incredibly depressing, and I am thankful for the approximately six people/outlets in the BG space who actually do criticism and/or journalism. I don't condemn the rest but I do feel sorry for them.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 03/08/2025

Saw Miss Julie last night at fortyfivedownstairs and I’m a little gagged. It’s a fairly strict adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (which I’ve never seen nor read) set in the melb hospo sector.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 12/07/2025

Saw mother play at Melbourne Theatre Company last night and oh goodness!!! What a beautiful little show. I went in without having read anything about the show (literally didn’t even read the copy I had no clue what it was about) and was delighted on so many fronts.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Inspirational words about fighting fascism from ANDOR. Now with alt text.

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 25/06/2025

I’ve always found the signage at Parliament station directing you to either end of the station concourse sooo weird because the entrances to the ‘Collins St’ side of the station are closer on the whole to Bourke st.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It’s been very underreported but the ABC has just gutted its arts and culture team. It will go down from 12 national arts, culture and entertainment reporters to 3. One of those will focused on writing PR for TV shows. It’s vandalism. We covered it on our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

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How the Media Helped Israel Bomb Iran, the ABC’s Future, and the State of Australian TV

Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 18/06/2025 · 1h 8m

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 19/06/2025

Jinkx Monsoon to play Mary Todd Lincoln in ‘Oh, Mary!’ beginning August 4.

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Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wowee, the outgoing director of Festivals Adelaide has some pretty strong words about the sector. www.indailysa.com.au/news/busines...

Jochym said she had “witnessed several ways in which we collectively have been abdicating responsibility for this remarkable industry”.

“We do it by burying our heads in the sand for fear of upsetting someone above; creating environments where people bury their heads in the sand; minimising our worst; ignoring the real and daily anxiety our teams feel about the precarity and seasonality; failing to properly value the labour, skill and sacrifice required to deliver festivals and events; under resourcing, underpaying, essentially dehydrating this industry and expecting over-delivery; acting like crabs in a bucket; holding onto decades-old grudges or institutional mistrust.

“Pretending like there’s no existential threat to this sector when I’ve cried too many times with people who feel like they’re drowning. Businesses on knife’s edge, contracts drying up and people walking away from careers they love because they can no longer afford to stay.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 13/06/2025

ok what if i made a play which was kill climate deniers combined with a theatre awards night and we hold the state arts minister hostage demanding money for the arts ??? is this something ???

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 09/06/2025

Here’s a little (big) piece I wrote about Fat Pig, an opera which staged last weekend in Melbourne. It’s not really a review, just me trying to make sense of the feelings that seeing it brought up. It feels pretty scary to be so critical—but then again I’m just so tired of anti-fatness in theatre.

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🐷 Lipstick on a (Fat) Pig

10 Reasons Why I’m Bloody Tired, a Personal Response to ‘Fat Pig’ at fortyfivedownstairs | Presented by Forest Collective and BK Opera

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

two men announce they are breaking up at the beginning of pride month, and you're all laughing?

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 05/06/2025

Now I’ve only just watched the first two episodes of Overcompensating but I don’t get the hype at all. I read an American describing it as ‘groundbreaking’ which (if the first two episodes are anything to go by) is just not true. Not sure if I’ll finish the rest of it.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 03/06/2025

OK. DOCTOR WHO FINALE. MY THOUGHTS. First of all, RTD is really coming for Moffaf’s gig with all this nonsensical plot. The underverse?? Diva what??? Second of all, this pacing is a goddamn dumpster fire and Belinda’s character arc was a fucking MESS….. UNTIL….

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 26/05/2025

Coming out as a mylk hater. Not plant milk specifically, just the obnoxious spelling of it.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 19/05/2025

‘Glee’ premiered 16 years ago today.

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 18/05/2025

I could cry I love this latest season of doctor who so much. This Eurovision episode, the gay couple, the morrocanoil of it all, Graham Norton, Susan!!!, god I’m obsessed. This is doctor who at its absolute peak and I’m so glad to get to watch it. UGH

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 17/05/2025

Finally caught up on season three of The Bear and I’m so disappointed? Nothing happened? Just entirely listless and morose. And the finale? I mean? Was it even a finale?

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 16/05/2025

war criminal this war criminal that have we considered not going to war? maybe staying home? not an expert here but that might save a couple civilians’ lives

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Will the Australian War Memorial NOW deal with its exhibit lionising war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith?

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Crystal Jane @crystaljane.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

From before the campaign began, mainstream media has been trying to engineer an image of young men as being more far right than ever before — culminating in SBS interviewing two right-wing agitators to make its point. No leftist Gen Z men were ever included in the selective framing. SO I DID IT:

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That army of right-wing young men coming to save Dutton? A mirage

Political commentators got the read on young men very wrong, in part because they would not be swayed from their US-inspired framing.

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Crystal Jane @crystaljane.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is truly were the worst impulses of Aus mainstream media to push the (sometimes far) right, at the exclusion of the left. I'm in no way saying that Gen Z men are all left radicals & there are definitely problems to deal with but we wont have clarity of we keep going like this

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 15/04/2025

truly i think tidying up our balcony and getting an outdoor armchair has done the most to secure my mental health over the past month. nothing like watching the trees on my curbside rattan lounger.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD

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Ryan Hamilton 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @ryanhamilton.work · 07/04/2025

strolling down swanston st to the tune of jb’s baby life is good

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