We’re kicking of this week’s show with a walk and talk through the annual Postcards Show at Linden New Art with Curator Hamish Sawyer and Chloe Kokoris whose textile creation, Woven Abstraction I was awarded The Geoffrey Conaghan and Mathew Erbs Tertiary Award.

Then, it’s our final week of Fast Fringe – our effort to cram as many Melbourne Fringe Festival artists into four weeks of shows as we can.

 

This week you’ll meet…

Sammy J and his show Fiasco: A Burke and Wills Musical – Moira Finucane and students from Monash Uni with Chambers of the Heart – Lliam Amor who’s back to give us clues to Murder in the Graveyard, the latest Murder Village improvised murder mystery – Cat Sewell from Polyglot who’ve made Whirlwind, a new participatory arts experience for children – Sarah Bird Miller and Ria Soemardjo who are retelling the myths of Persephone and Demeter with What Lies Beneath – and, finally, Jo Raphael from Fusion Theatre who are performing The Weathering…

 

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

We&rsquo;re kicking of this week&rsquo;s show with a walk and talk through the annual Postcards Show at Linden New Art with Curator Hamish Sawyer and Chloe Kokoris whose textile creation, Woven Abstraction I was awarded The Geoffrey Conaghan and Mathew Erbs Tertiary Award.
Then, it&rsquo;s our final week of Fast Fringe &ndash; our effort to cram as many Melbourne Fringe Festival artists into four weeks of shows as we can.
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This week you&rsquo;ll meet&hellip;
Sammy J and his show Fiasco: A Burke and Wills Musical &ndash; Moira Finucane and students from Monash Uni with Chambers of the Heart &ndash; Lliam Amor who&rsquo;s back to give us clues to Murder in the Graveyard, the latest Murder Village improvised murder mystery &ndash; Cat Sewell from Polyglot who&rsquo;ve made Whirlwind, a new participatory arts experience for children &ndash; Sarah Bird Miller and Ria Soemardjo who are retelling the myths of Persephone and Demeter with What Lies Beneath &ndash; and, finally, Jo Raphael from Fusion Theatre who are performing The Weathering&hellip;
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They&rsquo;re all on this week&rsquo;s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

The Australian Arts community is as diverse as its population. Each week Behind The Scenes looks at how people carry out these arts projects. Many stories, both fascinating and amusing are waiting to be told. 

The Australian Arts community is as diverse as its population. Each week Behind The Scenes looks at how people carry out these arts projects. Many stories, both fascinating and amusing are waiting to be told.&nbsp;

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Behind the Scenes 13th October 2025

It's the first show for November and so we’re swinging by the Theatre Network Australia office for a chat with Charice Rust who will also introduce us to the TNA Member of the Month, Anna Molnar, Programme Manager – Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne…

Then, keeping on the topic of access, we’ll welcome Rachel Edward back to the show, this time in her capacity as Creative Producer for the Arts Access Supported Residential Services programme which is presenting Outside In/Inside Out, an exhibition of puppetry at the Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg

Then it’s time for Screens & Streams but before Marc Gracie drops by to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens, we’ll have a chat with Sophie Somerville about her directorial debut with the feature film Fwends.

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

If you’d like to hear longer conversations with Anna Molnar -Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne AND Rachel Edward: Creative Producer, Arts Access Supported Residential Services Programme, you’ll find both on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats… plus if you subscribe, you’ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again…

It's the first show for November and so we&rsquo;re swinging by the Theatre Network Australia office for a chat with Charice Rust who will also introduce us to the TNA Member of the Month, Anna Molnar, Programme Manager &ndash; Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne&hellip;
Then, keeping on the topic of access, we&rsquo;ll welcome Rachel Edward back to the show, this time in her capacity as Creative Producer for the Arts Access Supported Residential Services programme which is presenting Outside In/Inside Out, an exhibition of puppetry at the Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg
Then it&rsquo;s time for Screens &amp; Streams but before Marc Gracie drops by to talk about what we&rsquo;ve seen on our big and small screens, we&rsquo;ll have a chat with Sophie Somerville about her directorial debut with the feature film Fwends.
They&rsquo;re all on this week&rsquo;s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
If you&rsquo;d like to hear longer conversations with Anna Molnar -Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne AND Rachel Edward: Creative Producer, Arts Access Supported Residential Services Programme, you&rsquo;ll find both on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you&rsquo;ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats&hellip; plus if you subscribe, you&rsquo;ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again&hellip;

Behind the Scenes 3rd November 2025

Recently, Chris Thompson (Presenter of Behind the Scenes) visited Arts Centre Melbourne to meet Anna Molnar, Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion. Anna is a theatre director, dramaturg, facilitator, producer and a Board Member with Rawcus Theatre. Her work in access and inclusion is from the perspective of lived experience, and she speaks about the many ways visits to Arts Centre Melbourne are made accessible to the widest possible audience - in particular her work with the venues and companies on developing relaxed performances.

Recently, Chris Thompson (Presenter of Behind the Scenes) visited Arts Centre Melbourne to meet Anna Molnar, Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion. Anna is a theatre director, dramaturg, facilitator, producer and a Board Member with Rawcus Theatre. Her work in access and inclusion is from the perspective of lived experience, and she speaks about the many ways visits to Arts Centre Melbourne are made accessible to the widest possible audience - in particular her work with the venues and companies on developing relaxed performances.

 Anna Molnar, Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion, Arts Centre Melbourne

We start this week with Liz Rogers, General Manager of Browns Mart for a Darwin catch up before we meet Sally Crawford, Chair of Darwin Theatre Company who’ll tell us about Seventeen, their new collaboration with Corrugated Iron Youth Arts…

Then we catch up with LA based Aussie comedian Monty Franklin who’s following up his highly successful Yeah, Nah tour with a new show called Is That Your Mate?

After that, we’ll chat with Ross Larkin about The Last Sunday in June, Firerock Productions’ new show at Chapel off Chapel…

And speaking of Chapel off Chapel, Russell Fletcher is back on the show, this time to talk about directing the upcoming spooky comedy The Haunting of Spook Mansion (by Ghosts)

And finally, a bit of music to take us out when we meet David Hyams who’s currently touring the country with Human Highway, his tribute to the great songs of Neil Young…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

We start this week with Liz Rogers, General Manager of Browns Mart for a Darwin catch up before we meet Sally Crawford, Chair of Darwin Theatre Company who&rsquo;ll tell us about Seventeen, their new collaboration with Corrugated Iron Youth Arts&hellip;
Then we catch up with LA based Aussie comedian Monty Franklin who&rsquo;s following up his highly successful Yeah, Nah tour with a new show called Is That Your Mate?
After that, we&rsquo;ll chat with Ross Larkin about The Last Sunday in June, Firerock Productions&rsquo; new show at Chapel off Chapel&hellip;
And speaking of Chapel off Chapel, Russell Fletcher is back on the show, this time to talk about directing the upcoming spooky comedy The Haunting of Spook Mansion (by Ghosts)
And finally, a bit of music to take us out when we meet David Hyams who&rsquo;s currently touring the country with Human Highway, his tribute to the great songs of Neil Young&hellip;
They&rsquo;re all on this week&rsquo;s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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