Well, our Adelaide correspondent Elena Verker’s lost her voice, so we literally won’t hear from her this month – BUT, she did see the State Theatre Company’s new production Dear Son adapted from the book by Thomas Mayo by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey and if she was here she’d be saying how great it is and that you should see it before it closes on August 16 AND she also managed to line up a local guest artist, Bridget Alfred who’s head honcho of SALA – the South Australia Living Artists Festival…

Speaking of festivals, MUDfest – Melbourne Uni’s biennial student arts festival is back and one of its Co-Directors – Riya Gupta – will tell us about how this year’s theme – Refraction – has influence the programme…

Meanwhile, at Theatre Works Briony Dunn is adapting and directing The Machine Stops from a 1909 novella by EM Forster that predicted the internet, TED Talks and video calls…

And finally, Screens & Streams may be a week late, but we make up for it with a bumper edition when Marc Gracie drops in for a look at three movie franchises that are trying their best to maintain our interest…

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It’s August already and this month we’re devoting our whole Theatre Network Australia spot to a special TNA member of the Month – it’s the new TNA CEO Amrit Gill.

Then Producer and Musical Director Ben Samuel is here for a chat about Songs for a New World and to tell us why a Producer would add in more performers than the script actually calls for…

Then we’re off to the Royal Botanic Gardens with our ear buds in for a new episode of Sonica Botanica - the free self-guided listening experience set in the new climate-adapted Australian Drylands and we’ll find out what that means when we chat with Creative Producer Sally McPhee…

After that, we head down on the Peninsular Link to McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery where we’ll welcome back Music Curactor Monica Curro to find out what the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is doing there…

And finally, a very short Screens & Streams this week when Tom Middleditch swings by to let us know all the access arrangements we can take advantage of in this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. But fear not… we’ve only delayed the arrival of Marc Gracie until next week when there’ll be a bumper Screens & Streams to make up for our tardiness…

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Yvette Walker from Brown’s Mart kicks of our Darwin spot for July and introduces us to Monkey, Lead Producer and Sound Designer for Crown and Country as part of the Darwin Festival …

Then, we drop in on Bloomshed’s rehearsals for their latest production – Pride and Prejudice – and talk Jane Austen, housing shortages and playdoh with James Jackson …

After that, Peter Knight is here to talk about his new album Too Long; Didn’t Read and why all the track titles are cloud names…

And finally, Melbourne Fringe is quite a way off, but we’re sneaking in a quick catch up with Creative Director Simon Abrahams to talk about First Trimester, one of its upcoming shows where you could be involved – as a sperm donor… What’s all that about? That’s Simon’s job to explain…

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