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An underground bunker filled with a thousand ping pong balls (which are actually other things) and a table tennis table (which is itself). 3 days, 3 characters, and some very rapid dialogue make this fringe play by Sam Steiner the perfect companion piece to his other play (podcast favourite) 'You Stupid Darkness!'

We talk 'Table Tennis Play' as it's own subgenre, our love of ephemera, and how everything is a game.

Content Warnings: Death/Dementia

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In the ancient play The Frogs, which has survived 2.5 thousand years and been a lynchpin of many hundreds of academic careers, Dionysus and his slave (eesh) Xanthius go in desperate search of funny bits they can do. Some good funny bits include: spanking, calling the audience idiots, and slagging off the guy who once gave the author a bad review.

We talk ancient Greek theatre funding, the looming threat of (Spartan) war, and which writers we would bring back from the dead.

Content Warnings: War/Slavery/Death/Execution/Murder/Sexism

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A 300 year epic told through 17 minute portraits, Joel Tan's No Particular Order is a very heavy going, incredible piece of writing detailing the rise and fall(?) of an unnamed despot in an unnamed country in an unnamed time.

We talk war, dictatorships, and whether ART can ever do justice to the atrocities that so many must suffer.

Content Warnings: War/Fascism/Sexual Assault/Murder/Seeking Asylum/Racism/Sexism/Death/Child Death/Animal Death/Gore/Most Other Traumatic Events

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