The Saturday Quiz

Very occasionally, there is a new piece of theatre created which gets everything just right, that it becomes an instant classic. My Brilliant Career is one of those shows. The new musical based on the novel by Miles Franklin, with a book by Sheridan Harbridge and Dean Bryant, music by Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant and directed by Anne-Louise Sarks is quite simply brilliant.In the central role of Sybylla Melvyn, Kala Gare is phenomenal.After you've listened to this episode, I urge everyone to go see this incredible show.Or at the very least, check out Melbourne Theatre Company's Instagram and revel in the sublime songs from the musical.Book tickets to My Brilliant Career here:https://tickets.mtc.com.au/production/18097

Lucy Ansell and Caroline Lee are both currently starring in the Red Stitch production of José Rivera’s play “Your Name Means Dream” which explores the notion of what it means to be human in a world increasingly encroached upon by AI. No AI was used in discovering the answers to these questions though.Get your tickets to "Your Name Means Dream" here:https://www.redstitch.net

Stop what you're doing and get in the car and drive to Mitchelton Estate Winery for this weekend's Comedy in the Vines - a mini festival of great comedians and fantastic wines in Nagambie, Victoria, a little over an hour away from Melbourne.While you're there, make sure you check out Ethan and Sweeney's show In Pour Taste - a comedy wine tasting. It's hilarious! Ethan and Sweeney might get the award on this podcast for "most improved" since their first appearance on the show - but this episode his no less unhinged.

This is the 200th episode of The Saturday Quiz, and what better way to mark the occasion than by having two of the funniest comedians to have ever answered the quiz, do it all over again?Zoë and Alexei have never been on the show together, but their rapport is brilliant. And somehow, they wind up with mostly correct answers.As always, play along at home by getting your copy of The Saturday Paper.I don't always get a chance to record a sign off for every episode, so let me please send a special thank you to Cindy MacDonald for all the questions she has supplied me with across 200 episodes. I'm forever in her debt.

The last time Geraldine Hickey and Vidya Rajan were on this podcast together, they performed remarkably well, pretty much getting ten out of ten. Will they be able to do the same with this, somewhat more difficult quiz?Listen to find out!Also listen if you want to hear all the bonus facts about pigeons that the ABC cut out of Geraldine’s appearance on Question Everything. 

Stephanie Caccamo and Elenoa Rokobaro are two of the cast members of Well-Behaved Women - a show with music and lyrics by Carmel Dean and directed by Blazey Best - which has just opened at Belvoir Street Theatre. Well-Behaved Women celebrates extraordinary women who have made history. From Cleopatra to Virginia Woolf to Frida Kahlo and more, these women are legends who smashed the glass ceilings and refused to behave. Well-Behaved Women is on now until November 3Get you tickets here:https://belvoir.com.au/productions/well-behaved-women/

The Melbourne Fringe Festival has just kicked off, which means that there are over four hundred and fifty events vying for your attention.One of them stars this episode's guests Hannah Camilleri and Oliver Coleman. It’s a play called Prune which is a comedy about a woman who won’t get out of the bath.Both Hannah and Oliver have been nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, so it’s guaranteed to be funny**Not an actual guaranteeGet your tickets to Prune:https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/prune/Get your tickets to Oliver's show Seeing What Happens:https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/oliver-coleman-seeing-what-happens-an-improvised-stand-up-comedy-show/

Real life couple Hannah Waterman and Huw Higginson are performing as husband and wife in the moving play about love, loss and laughter Colder Than Here at the Ensemble theatre.On this episode of the Quiz, they do exceptionally well and take some fascinating trips down memory lane... and all sorts of other lanes too!Get tickets to Colder Than Here here:https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/colder-than-here/