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Malthouse Theatre is offering social media addicts free tickets to a current production that celebrates and satirises YouTube.

14 Apr 2015

Richard Watts

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Currently showing at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, Meme Girls – starring and co-created by Ash Flanders – is a warts-and-all look at the confessional nature of YouTube; part satire, part celebration of the social media age.

In a canny marketing move, the Malthouse is now offering popular social media users free tickets to a special performance of the production to celebrate the 10^th birthday of YouTube, the video-sharing platform launched in 2005.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts