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📍Naarm/Melbourne
🎟️ see me next in The Saboteur at Improv Theatre Sydney

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Very grateful to have been a part of this and get to watch such skilled artists jazz it.

“Till the Day I Die” by Clifford Odets @ Melbourne Fringe

Directors: Katie Sfetkidis and Mark Wilson

Stage Manager: Seamus Allan

Production Manager: Harry Dowling

Costume: Nathan Burmeister

Sound: Justin Gardam

Cast includes: Cait Spiker, Tim Wotherspoon, John Marc Desengano, Eloise Mignon, Alice Dixon, Syd Brisbane, Miela Anich, Mia Tuco, John Shearman, Emily O’Connor, Will Hall, Mary Helen Sassman, Dana Miltins, Justin Gardam, An Dang, Tilda Tomlinson, Remy Heremaia, Malith Wijayawardhana, Kiril Stamenkov, Blake Hohenhaus, Brian Lipson, Jane Bayly, Emily O’Connor, Jordan Selwyn, Jinghua Qian, Ellen Smith and more.

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Finally!! Fringe Hub at Trades Hall tonight. Finally breathing. Last day of @melbfringe 🎭❤️

Three productions this Fringe. Tonight I just soaked it in. Caught up with the Na-iba team, had a drink and did nothing. Chilled. But had to leave for family affair!

Thank you Melbourne Fringe for all of it.

Padayon!

#melbournefringe #fringehub #tradeshall #naiba #divergenttheatrecollective

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Details of how to purchase in pinned comment 💖🙏#fundraiser #queerjewellery #gaystuff #queercollaboration #supportsmallbiz ps: Farts Happen singlet courtesy of @fuckfabulous children’s show Fart Fabulous 🥰🌈

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🧐 Introducing your first player for The Saboteur: John Marc Desengano!

🕵️‍♀️ He claims he couldn't possibly betray his fellow improvisers for a very simple reason, but is it all a ruse?

👀 Find out Saturday 17 October at Improv Theatre Sydney!

🎟️ Tickets at the link in our bio

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Three IPANers performed in Till the Day I Die at Melbourne Fringe Festival recently. The play was written by a US Jew in 1935 & is set in Berlin at that time. It's about the incoherence of the Nazi ideology & the importance & consequences of fighting against fascism. A radical Australian theatre co. called New Theatre performed it in 1936 in Melb, Syd, Adelaide, Perth & Newcastle - often on the back of a truck as the fed govt banned it after being petitioned to do so by the German Consul. Despite Hitler being in power in Germany, the Lyons govt caved to the pressure. The parallels with the contemporary rise of the far right & the influence of Zionism, here & globally, are unmissable.
Thank you @katiesfet and Mark Wilson for letting us be a part of this history making(again) play.#tillthedayidie #artisaweapon #melbournefringe #SolidarityNotSilence

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Last night I was lucky enough to see @katiesfet production of Till I Die, Clifford Odet’s brilliant play about a cell of communists organising underground against the Nazis.

The cast (especially @johnmarcismyfirstname 💕) brought out beautifully the dignity and often secret heroism of the generations of communists who spent their lives resisting fascism, doing it despite what it did to their personal lives and their aspirations of love and raising children. I was grateful to see put before an audience how difficult every small decision was for these people, the impossible binds they were forced into, how much they sacrificed and above all how right they were.

The play was banned when first performed in Australia in 1936 on request of the Nazi consulate, for criticism of a “friendly power”. As Katie pointed out, it’s an appropriate time to put on a banned play as we watch a new wave of censorship attempting to silence those who speak out for Palestine.

I saw it with good friends, lovely comrades, and Tanya, whose socialist dad named her after a young woman he read about in the communist press who was publicly executed for resisting the Nazis. Her dad was at the battle of cable street, and an organiser of hunger marches. He left school at 7 and was taught to read in his small mining town by the communist party. He broke with them when they betrayed the spanish revolution. The second photo is the two of us toasting him.

I hope it helped anyone who watched it to understand why many of us today are so dedicated to rebuilding the revolutionary socialist tradition, why we seem so fervent, why we insist on writing and selling a socialist newspaper, and above all why all of us need to fight against fascism, genocide and capitalism today.

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Till the Day I Die
By Clifford Odets
Directed by Katie Sfetkidis & Mark Wilson
Trades Hall Carpark

📷 @sarahtakesphotos

#melbournefringe

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Opening Night!!!! We made a very special show with this incredible group of people who believe in the power of art. Much love to each and everyone one of you!! See you in the carpark (hopefully)

📷 @sarahtakesphotos
#artisaweapon #tillthedayidie #melbournefringe

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🫨 The Saboteur returns to Sydney for ONE NIGHT ONLY!

🔪 Which of these amazing improvisers would backstab their fellow cast? Who is trying to ruin the show without being caught?

🫵 Can you unmask the saboteur before it's too late?

🎟️ Tickets at the link in our bio

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Check out our October cast for ITS Flipping the Script!! 🔥

One actor has the script. One improviser tries to ruin their plans. Will they make it work?

📅 Saturday 10th October at 7pm @improvtheatresydney

🔗 Tickets at the link in bio

#whatsonsydney #sydneycomedy #thingstodoinsydney

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Keep an eye out for this fun spot for Snickers with John Marc Desengano this footy finals season! 🏈🍫🧌 #AMM #AMMcommercial

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