{"id":76,"date":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/2017\/05\/06\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","slug":"httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","title":{"rendered":"RIOT (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confronting new play from the co-artistic director of the Owl and Cat Theatre, Thomas Ian Doyle, <em>RIOT<\/em> concerns a 30-year-old bisexual anti-establishment druggie whose life is just drifting.<\/p>\n<p>Jim (Jonathan Peck) works in a fast food restaurant because he needs the money. Otherwise, he wouldn\u2019t, as the job means nothing to him. His former girlfriend, Janette (Caitlin Berwick), who cultivates \u201cpot\u201d plants, broke up with him and is frustrated because he won\u2019t leave her alone, allowing her to get on with her life. Jim hooks up with a 19-year-old unemployed guy, Gavin (Gareth Trew), at a gay rally. The irony is that he has just finished telling his boss, Kate (Stephanie Valenzuela), that he isn\u2019t homosexual and has no interest in attending the event. Next thing you know, Jim is also getting down and dirty with a 24-year-old waitress, cum aspiring actress Lola (Jennifer B. Ashley). She is more into him than he is into her because his true heart appears to lie with Gavin, although their relationship, like all those he has, is prickly, fraught and fragile. Jim also frequently wants to rebel, to break free of societal constraints, but it all seems to be talk.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7697\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg?resize=560%2C419\" alt=\"Riot-02\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" \/>What\u2019s this all about? As I see it, vulnerability \u2026 and there is a surprise reveal at the end of the play that lays the theme bare. Jim (and the others) just plod through life, doing what they do. There is no grand plan here, simply getting by each day \u2013 some better than others. The primal urge to have sex is a mainstay, but more than that it is to establish emotional connections, which Jim struggles to do. At various turns he is sensitive, embittered, angry and apathetic, mostly the latter.<\/p>\n<p>As the above description would suggest, adult content, nudity, sex scenes and drug references are integral components of the repertoire. <em>RIOT<\/em> also employs strobe lighting and uses a fog machine.<\/p>\n<p>I spent much of my time trying to figure out what the play was trying to say and hoping to build a connection to the characters, with which I grappled because I didn\u2019t really care about them too much. Jim\u2019s persona, in particular, I found quite repellent and he \u2013 after all \u2013 is the central player. I thought he was simply a lightweight without anything important to impart. The play enforced the idea that life can be \u2013 indeed, more often than not is \u2013 hard and is anything but straightforward. Then there was the issue of nudity, with which I am totally comfortable. Why, oh why, did only one of the actors (and, no, it wasn\u2019t Jim) strip naked when the others who were engaged in sexual acts did not, remaining semi or fully clothed? What the? Was it prudishness on the part of the performers or did the playwright and\/or director have some reason for it? I wish I could give you a rationale, but regardless, it didn\u2019t gel with me.<\/p>\n<p>I also question the casting of Trew as a teenager when he looked far older. In other words, credibility was lacking.<\/p>\n<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7698\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-01.jpg?resize=560%2C373\" alt=\"Riot-01\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/>RIOT<\/em> has been accepted into the<i> Last Frontier Theatre Conference,<\/i> an annual event held in Valdez, Alaska that focuses on playwriting. There it will be workshopped in June by the director Gabrielle Savrone (who is also co-artistic director of the Owl and Cat) and Doyle in front of industry professionals. The conference\u2019s mission is to develop new voices and provide the opportunity to interact with some of the luminaries of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theater_in_the_United_States\">American theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they can make more sense of <em>RIOT<\/em> than I did.<\/p>\n<p>With a running time of 1 hour 20 minutes without interval, it is on at 34 Swan Street, Richmond until 13th June and scores a 6 out of 10. For bookings, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlandcat.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">www.owlandcat.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex First<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A confronting new play from the co-artistic director of the Owl and Cat Theatre, Thomas Ian Doyle, RIOT concerns a 30-year-old bisexual anti-establishment druggie whose life is just drifting. Jim (Jonathan Peck) works in a fast food restaurant because he needs the money. Otherwise, he wouldn\u2019t, as the job means nothing to him. His former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37,80,2],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-melbourne","tag-owl-and-cat-theatre","tag-post_tag"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RIOT (Owl &amp; Cat) - theatre review -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RIOT (Owl &amp; Cat) - theatre review -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A confronting new play from the co-artistic director of the Owl and Cat Theatre, Thomas Ian Doyle, RIOT concerns a 30-year-old bisexual anti-establishment druggie whose life is just drifting. Jim (Jonathan Peck) works in a fast food restaurant because he needs the money. Otherwise, he wouldn\u2019t, as the job means nothing to him. His former...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-06T07:27:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David Edwards\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David Edwards\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David Edwards\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5b6e71c52b0c61f2ea361d202fc6c8da\"},\"headline\":\"RIOT (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-06T07:27:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":642,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/reviews\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/06\\\/Riot-02.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"melbourne\",\"Owl and Cat Theatre\",\"post_tag\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/\",\"name\":\"RIOT (Owl & Cat) - theatre review -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/reviews\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/06\\\/Riot-02.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-06T07:27:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5b6e71c52b0c61f2ea361d202fc6c8da\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/reviews\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/06\\\/Riot-02.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/reviews\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/06\\\/Riot-02.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"RIOT (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"Australian arts &amp; entertainment reviews\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5b6e71c52b0c61f2ea361d202fc6c8da\",\"name\":\"David Edwards\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8adc90e6c54ce0a5edb350e18ca07e33ec2bf596dc1219a8bed5d2d7d2e07894?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8adc90e6c54ce0a5edb350e18ca07e33ec2bf596dc1219a8bed5d2d7d2e07894?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8adc90e6c54ce0a5edb350e18ca07e33ec2bf596dc1219a8bed5d2d7d2e07894?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"David Edwards\"},\"description\":\"David Edwards is the former editor of The Blurb and a contributor on film and television\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theblurb.com.au\\\/wp\\\/author\\\/editor\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"RIOT (Owl & Cat) - theatre review -","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"RIOT (Owl & Cat) - theatre review -","og_description":"A confronting new play from the co-artistic director of the Owl and Cat Theatre, Thomas Ian Doyle, RIOT concerns a 30-year-old bisexual anti-establishment druggie whose life is just drifting. Jim (Jonathan Peck) works in a fast food restaurant because he needs the money. Otherwise, he wouldn\u2019t, as the job means nothing to him. His former...","og_url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","article_published_time":"2017-05-06T07:27:15+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"David Edwards","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"David Edwards","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/"},"author":{"name":"David Edwards","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/#\/schema\/person\/5b6e71c52b0c61f2ea361d202fc6c8da"},"headline":"RIOT (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review","datePublished":"2017-05-06T07:27:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/"},"wordCount":642,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg","keywords":["melbourne","Owl and Cat Theatre","post_tag"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","name":"RIOT (Owl & Cat) - theatre review -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg","datePublished":"2017-05-06T07:27:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/#\/schema\/person\/5b6e71c52b0c61f2ea361d202fc6c8da"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Riot-02.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsriot-owl-cat-theatre-review\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"RIOT (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/#website","url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/","name":"","description":"Australian arts &amp; entertainment reviews","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/#\/schema\/person\/5b6e71c52b0c61f2ea361d202fc6c8da","name":"David Edwards","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8adc90e6c54ce0a5edb350e18ca07e33ec2bf596dc1219a8bed5d2d7d2e07894?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8adc90e6c54ce0a5edb350e18ca07e33ec2bf596dc1219a8bed5d2d7d2e07894?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8adc90e6c54ce0a5edb350e18ca07e33ec2bf596dc1219a8bed5d2d7d2e07894?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"David Edwards"},"description":"David Edwards is the former editor of The Blurb and a contributor on film and television","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.theblurb.com.au\/wp\/"],"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/author\/editor\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2578,"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/25-fed-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":0},"title":"25 and F***ed (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review","author":"David Edwards","date":"July 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"American playwright Kiki Zapata's\u00a025 and F***ed\u00a0gets a\u00a0world premiere at Melbourne's Owl & Cat Theatre. This is a comedic drama about three art-school graduates struggling with their daily lives. Layabout Zach (Saxon Evans) is a 25-year-old man-child with mental health issues.\u00a0He has just returned home after several months abroad and can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Theatre&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Theatre","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/category\/theatre\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/25-Fed-Up-03.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/25-Fed-Up-03.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/25-Fed-Up-03.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/25-Fed-Up-03.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":787,"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewslongevity-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":1},"title":"Longevity (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review","author":"David Edwards","date":"May 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The ultimate relationship conundrum, Longevity is a love triangle with a difference. Girl A, a student by the name of Lance (Bee Townsend), meets Girl B, Juliet (Fiona Scarlett), an artist and there is an immediate attraction. They begin a long-term relationship that keeps on keeping on for five years.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"lost love\"","block_context":{"text":"lost love","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/tag\/lost-love\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Longevity-01","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Longevity-01.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Longevity-01.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Longevity-01.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1916,"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/crush-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":2},"title":"Crush (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review","author":"David Edwards","date":"May 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In Owl & Cat's new production Crush, \u00a0Celia (Mardi Edge), editor of the (fictional) Melbourne Sentinel newspaper, is a having a less than satisfactory affair with a married man.\u00a0Johnny (Seb Muirhead) \u2013 who has a deep-seated fear of drowning \u2013 is in love with Celia, or so he thinks.\u00a0He is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Theatre&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Theatre","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/category\/theatre\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crush-03.jpg?fit=725%2C512&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crush-03.jpg?fit=725%2C512&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crush-03.jpg?fit=725%2C512&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crush-03.jpg?fit=725%2C512&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":338,"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewswash-room-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":3},"title":"Wash Room (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review","author":"David Edwards","date":"May 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Sexuality (some might call it perversion) appears to be a constant theme in young playwright Thomas Ian Doyle\u2019s work, which is inevitably confronting. Fortunately, he has a ready outlet for it in the form of the theatre he and director Gabrielle Savrone operate, namely The Owl and Cat. Wash Room\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"limited season\"","block_context":{"text":"limited season","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/tag\/limited-season\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":639,"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsflesh-eating-tiger-2016-owl-cat-theatre-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":4},"title":"Flesh Eating Tiger 2016 (Owl &#038; Cat) &#8211; theatre review","author":"David Edwards","date":"May 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Now reworked, with a new creative team, this play was the first performed by The Owl and Cat Theatre, when Gabrielle Savrone and Thomas Ian Doyle took over the venue from Jason Cavanagh at the start of last year. A woman, a playwright, has been married for eight years but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"melbourne\"","block_context":{"text":"melbourne","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/tag\/melbourne\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Flesh-Eating-Tiger-05","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flesh-Eating-Tiger-05.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flesh-Eating-Tiger-05.jpeg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flesh-Eating-Tiger-05.jpeg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/heretics-owl-and-cat-theatre-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":5},"title":"Heretics (Owl and Cat) &#8211; theatre review","author":"David Edwards","date":"May 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Cults, brainwashing and exploitation seem to go hand-in-glove. So it is that a young woman, Lisa \u2013 played convincingly by Hayley Worsley \u2013 a tried and true member of a sect with Eastern leanings, practising spiritualism and free love, finds herself in the hands of a deprogrammer, Mel (Tim Ferris)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Theatre&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Theatre","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/category\/theatre\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heretics-01.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heretics-01.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heretics-01.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}