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 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