Yes I second the comment about having breakfast with. This is excellent and thought provoking. I'm thinking of theatre, and non white female theatre in particular, that has played with camp in recent years - Michelle law and nakkiah Lui spring to mind. I think it's actually something Australia does very well - perhaps more appealingly than its insistence on gothic aesthetics (to be discussed at length of course). I agree with Declan- the people nailing it these days are those outside heteronormativity...and perhaps are youth focussed? Sex education. We are lady parts....
Absolutely agree - Sisters Grimm, Lewis Treston, Nakkiah Lui - excellent Australian theatre practitioners who deploy Camp in interesting and irreverent ways. But when thinking about film/tv, I was struck by the fact that I couldn't think of many (Australian) makers at all who're leaning into Camp with similar abandon. Even the shows you've mentioned are both British!
Let's make gayer work, Burton. Also thank you for reading my scribblings.
Yes I second the comment about having breakfast with. This is excellent and thought provoking. I'm thinking of theatre, and non white female theatre in particular, that has played with camp in recent years - Michelle law and nakkiah Lui spring to mind. I think it's actually something Australia does very well - perhaps more appealingly than its insistence on gothic aesthetics (to be discussed at length of course). I agree with Declan- the people nailing it these days are those outside heteronormativity...and perhaps are youth focussed? Sex education. We are lady parts....
Absolutely agree - Sisters Grimm, Lewis Treston, Nakkiah Lui - excellent Australian theatre practitioners who deploy Camp in interesting and irreverent ways. But when thinking about film/tv, I was struck by the fact that I couldn't think of many (Australian) makers at all who're leaning into Camp with similar abandon. Even the shows you've mentioned are both British!
Let's make gayer work, Burton. Also thank you for reading my scribblings.
Sanja, you're the only person on the planet I'd like to wake up and have breakfast with.
Bea, I'd love to have breakfast with you! Next time you're in BNE...