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Dr. Rob Vs.

Australian theatre has never known what keeps hitting it...

Australian theatre tells its own story so badly.Dr. Rob thinks they can do the job better. That's what this podcast is.A life in the Australian theatre is complicated, exhausting, misrepresented and misunderstood. Dr R

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  • 4. Dr Rob Vs. Moira Finucane

    42:34||Season 1, Ep. 4
    In this episode Dr Rob talks to the incomparable Moira Finucane about her early career leading up to the twentieth anniversary of The Burlesque Hour.

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  • 3. Dr Rob Vs. The Shows: La Belle Epoque

    30:01||Season 1, Ep. 3
    In this episode with a new format Dr Rob goes and talks to playwright Future D. Fidel, director Budi Muller and dramaturg Todd MacDonald about La Belle Epoque.
  • 2. Dr. Rob vs. The Australia Council

    01:10:21||Season 1, Ep. 2
    The Doctor of the disordered stage is back. In this second episode of Dr Rob Vs, Dr Rob tells the story of government funding for the performing arts, deconstructs a post apocalyptic play from the 1950s and reflects on two more months in the industry.
  • 1. Dr. Rob Vs. Independent theatre

    01:02:49||Season 1, Ep. 1
    In this pilot episode of Dr Rob Vs., Dr. Rob introduces the podcast, complains about being a working actor, rewrites a classic Australian play that almost no-one has ever heard of and makes a range of hyperbolic assertions about the end of theatre as we know it. If that's your thing, this is a good time.