On the first show of each month, Behind the Scenes welcomes the Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month. For the February 3, 2025 show, the TNA Member of the Month was theatre producer and performer Jeremy Goldstein who talks about his Midsumma Festival show Truth to Power Café which has already been performed sixty times in eight different countries welcoming eight hundred participants to join Jeremy on stage. Audiences in theatres and at festivals in England, Scotland, The Netherlands and Croatia have already flocked to it - it had an online audience of over half a million people and last year it played at the Lincoln Centre in New York and the Chutzpah! Festival in Vancouver. It also won an Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Theatre for performances in Kimba, a remote rural farming community in the Eyre Peninsula.

The Theatre Works/Midsumma Festival season is the first time Truth to Power Café has been seen in Melbourne.

In addition to speaking about the show, Jeremy also reflects on his time with ActUP in the 80s and 90s, working with Handspan Theatre and Melbourne Fringe and with Penny Arcade in London.

An edited version of that conversation went to air on the February 3 edition of Behind the Scenes, but here is the complete, unedited version. It’s a lovely conversation and well worth the listening.