Critics made complicit in theatrical mass murder

Melbourne critics have volunteered to perform in Oedipus Schmoedipus, a bloody exploration of theatrical death.
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Image: post’s Oedipus Schmoedipus. Photo by Ellis Parrinder. 

Critics from The Age, the Herald Sun and AussieTheatre will be complicit in a series of theatrical suicides and murders in Melbourne next month.

Oedipus Schmoedipus is a feminist reclamation of some of the most famous theatrical death scenes ever written by men, created by Zoe Coombs Marr, Mish Grigor and Natalie Rose from Sydney theatre company called post.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts