Melbourne Writers' Festival
Dramageddon is a genre-bending choose- your-own-adventure podcast created by playwright Jean Tong and comedian Lou Wall. Each episode pits two queer people against the climate apocalypse in 2050. This MWF-themed special tests Candy Bowers and Nevo Zisin on their survival skills, forcing them to address ethical questions such as: write or run? Publish or punish? Paperback or zombie snack?
It’s the end of the world; bring on the Dramageddon!
Produced by Xen Nhà with Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, published by Broadwave
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Day 0
This episode takes us all the way back to Day 0, as comedians Zoë Coombs Marr and Nina Oyama emerge from an isolated three month getaway to find the world unlike how they left it. The pair battle generational differences, debate the perks of never having to shit again, and figure out how to survive when the apocalypse first hits.
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Day 735
It’s all aboard for performers Carly Sheppard and Tahlee Fereday as they jump on a cruise ship to escape the zombie plague that’s taking over land and sea. Join them for rats, cruise ship orgies, and zombie physiology getting in the way of their final plan.
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Year 96
Playwright Morgan Rose and writer/editor Roz Bellamy discuss the weirdest ways to escape awkward pick-ups at the bar, how educators can support the next generation of change-makers, and how to talk big and difficult ideas with young people.
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Day 800
It's a real funny or die world for comedians Geraldine Hickey and Anna Piper Scott in their plight to see if stand up comedy has it's place in Dramageddon. The pair talk Adelaide Fringe (pre- and post- apocalypse), how to handle a heckler and deliver a rousing rendition of "To Be With You" by Mr Big. But will they deliver a killer set - or be killed by their set?
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Day 45
Trapped in an enforced quarantine, married couple Mia MacDonald and Steph Hughes discuss being “crafty with finding sperm”, tiny cock viruses, how to keep milk cold in a world with no fridges, and divorce!
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Day 635
Secret martial artists (and theatre artists) Sapidah Kian and Natesha Somasundaram get into the nitty gritty of totalitarian leadership, cannibalism as punishment, and tickle torture - as the new leaders of the post-Apocalyptic Mt-Dandenong -Hotel-slash-lesbian-commune.
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Day 267
Multi-disciplinary artists Lara Thoms and Danielle Reynolds discuss anxiety diarrhoea, emetophobia, and improvise Apocalypse acrostic poems to say goodbye - all while trying to get some good farming technique going to survive Dramageddon.
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Day 69
Singer Mama Alto and poet Fury forge through an Apocalyptic Melbourne as hunter-gatherers - while self-ranking the Dramageddon stank and sharing the best way to survive a live-shooter situation.
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Trailer: Dramageddon is coming
Created before we found ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, Dramageddon is the perfect silly slice of satire to distract you from the world right now. Subscribe now to hear episodes 1 and 2 when they drop next Thursday 9 April
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Meet Jean and Lou: Creators of Dramageddon
Meet Jean Tong and Lou Wall, the creators of Dramageddon
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