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Review: Marcus Whale’s Ecstasy at The Substation – Rising: Melbourne

For this week, The Substation has become a place of dark reverence - a fitting host for Marcus Whale's live staging of Ecstasy, a...

Review – Love and Information at Theatre Works

Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information is famously fragmented — over 50 short scenes, barely titled, rarely connected — and this production leans into that...

A Couple Decides What to Have for Dinner – Review

At first glance, A Couple Decides What to Have for Dinner seems like a simple premise: a husband and wife sitting on their couch,...

Review: Oblation – An Immersive Audiovisual Experience at The Substation

Oblation is a mesmerizing audiovisual performance created by Tamil-Australian Vijay Thillaimuthu, known by his moniker Xenosine. This electrifying production, running for only a few...

Review – Locus – Melbourne Fringe Festival 2024

In a world where reality bends and your identity dissolves into a number, Locus brings the audience face-to-face with the thin line between illusion...

Transmission – into the dark – Melbourne Fringe Festival 2024

Transmission - into the dark is a real gem of an event being held as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, created by “one step...

Theatre Review – Dredge – Theatre Works 2024

Femmural are currently staging Dredge at Theatre Works, a stage production where the story is not so much conveyed through speech, but rather dance,...

Theatre Review – You’re The Man – La Mama Courthouse

Paul Mitchell's You're The Man tackles the complex issue of domestic violence from a male perspective, a narrative seldom explored on stage. The show's...

Theatre Review – The Children’s Bach

The Children's Bach is a chamber opera that faithfully adapts the novella of the same name by Helen Garner. Lyric Opera are staging this...

Theatre Review – Volition (Explosives Factory – Theatre Works)

I was among the packed audience on opening night at the Explosives Factory (Theatre Works' second venue, accessed from the laneway behind 67 Inkerman...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.