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Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA)

Locality: Clayton North, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9905 8173

Address: 21 Chancellors Walk 3800 Clayton, VIC, Australia

Website: www.msa.monash.edu/must

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25.01.2022 Less than ONE MONTH to go until The MUST Cabaret Festival 2020, held from October 21 - October 30th. We have 6 fabulous nights set up for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Wednesday, October 21 - Opening Night... Thursday, October 22 - New Music Night Friday, October 23 - Queer Night Wednesday, October 28 - Spotlight Night Thursday, October 29 - Comedy Night Friday, October 30 - Closing Night Don't forget to click 'Interested' on the event - The MUST Cabaret Festival 2020 - to keep updated on how to tune in! We can't wait to introduce you to our fabulous acts!

25.01.2022 There’s only one show in the FIND festival program which has one performer for every audience member and that’s We, the Ocean. Book now and get ready for an improvised orchestral saga through the seven seas. Only 10 seats per show https://locomotion.productions/ocean

25.01.2022 PARTY'S STARTING NOW! https://monash.zoom.us/j/88622446936... PASSWORD: 693027

25.01.2022 Episode Five of From MUST Till Dawn is out now! This episode Callum Cheah chats to Emma Batty Emma Batty is currently trying to sort her life out. Throughout her uni career Emma has dipped her toe in directing, scriptwriting, and done flips and tricks (not literally) with acting/performing. If you’ve seen MUST’s best (you cannot change my mind) production, Climbers (2019), or the CTP performance of My Brilliant Career (2019), or even My Dearworthy Darling (2019) at the Maltho...use Theatre you’ve seen Emma in her prime. If you were going to see the (N)o-Show you could’ve seen Emma perform but, unfortunately, no one did. She is also an avid makeup artist whose journey you can follow here: https://www.instagram.com/eb.artistry/ Throughout her life Emma has based parts of her personality on films she’s seen and with covid-19 she’s had plenteous amounts of viewings to do so, tune in to see whether or not she did the same for From Dusk Till Dawn (spoiler alert: she did not). Podcast available now on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UKVj6fAKIoqWEasBAfMsB Anchor: https://anchor.fm/frommusttilldawn

25.01.2022 STRANGEkit's HOLESP@CE has been out for 2 days and we’ve already had heaps of you take the journey! $24 though, nice deal. Disclaimer: HOLESP@CE is proudly sponsored by Jubilee!Spring!Rolls!... [Video description: A large foot opens a kitchen drawer, cuts to a close up shot of an exposed neck (Callum’s). The neck eats the spring roll being fed by a hand. The front door opens and a Callum wearing a orange fluoro jacket and a cap enters and passes a spring roll to the camera and then exits. Another Callum wearing a black trench coat dress places a plate of spring rolls on a table. The camera angles up and Callum with his curly hair in buns does a little awkward boogie from side to side. $24.39 and Jubilee Spring Rolls flashes on the screen. [Transcript: Have you got a neuck? Give it a jubilee spring roll. *chewing noises* Now we do delivery to *murmurs of affirmation* Mmmm what a cool delivery guy, nice. Look at the hat! Look at the hat! jacket! JUBILEE SPRING ROLLS. LET’S DANCE. Ooh. Ahh. mmmmmm ja.] #holespace #strangekit

24.01.2022 Get ready for #CabFest2020 ! Only 16 days to go til our Opening Night! See the Facebook event here - https://www.facebook.com/events/575825633111875/ Click 'GOING' to stay updated.... Who's ready to meet some of our performers this week?

24.01.2022 Nominations for MUST Awards 2020 close TOMORROW NIGHT at midnight! Get your nominations in here: https://forms.gle/GUychyPx4QMK7xS57

23.01.2022 Feeling hungry? Look no further! HOLESP@CE brings you one quality roast! Brought to you by STRANGEkit at www.strangekit.com Beginning Oct 3rd [Image Description: Multiple Motoroloa flip phones, placed next to multiple iPhones display on their screens glitchy images of Casuarina with her hands gesturing as if holding a box, trees, and textures. On the far left edge, the screens display grids of the same face, Logan.]... #holespace #strangekit

22.01.2022 Did you miss the 2020 Wrap Party? ---------------------------------------------- Here is a list of all the award winners. xx ----------------------------------------------...Continue reading

21.01.2022 THAT'S A WRAP! The MUST Cabaret Festival 2020 has officially come to an end. THANK YOU to EVERY person who tuned into the streams (we reached over 17,000 people!) ... THANK YOU to all our 47 ACTS who provided such a beautiful and diverse array of performances throughout the festival. THANK YOU to the entire tech team, behind the scenes of every livestream. They've done SO much more than you know and are living legends. THANK YOU to the entire CabFest team, but particularly Gemma Livingstone and Sarah Matthews, who curated and produced the entire festival. CabFest is usually a massive project, and to go through 3-4 different iterations of how the festival was going to look and run - these two have coasted through every challenge and lead our team with strength, determination and constant smiles. PLEASE go and take a read of the Festival Program to see everyone involved in the show, and a note from Gemma and Sarah themselves! (Link in the comments!) See you next year!

21.01.2022 Don’t youuuu forget about me! Please. Please don’t forget. I ... L o v e y o u ... STRANGEkit‘s HOLESP@CE Oct 3rd [Image description: A red and blue graph titled you and me. The y axis goes from 0 to 200 and the x axis reads memories of holidays, memories that make us feel closer, memories that make us feel further apart, lost memories, memories of ex’s, memories of fights, memories of flights, memories of bodies titled different types of memories. The lines and shapes start and end high and dips down in the middle.] . #holespace #strangekit

20.01.2022 Episode One of From MUST Till Dawn is now live! In this episode, host Callum Cheah chats to Gregor Campbell. The director of MUSTBOP: Fur on the Forward Line, and The Must Olympics Gregor Campbell is in his fourth year at MUST (he promises he will leave eventually). He had been involved as an actor with MUST in Climbers, Do Not Collect $200 and the Time Travel O-show and has been involved both on and off stage with the Monash Shakespeare Company. A Law and Politics student Gr...egor is known for his Hot Takes (Campbell, 2020) and being ‘that guy at the party’ (Everyone else, 2020) so he was incredibly excited when his MUSTBOP writer (second plug) Callum invited him to discuss From Dust till Dawn so long as he could talk about Fight Club a movie which to no one’s surprise Gregor has opinions on. Available now on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UKVj6fAKIoqWEasBAfMsB Anchor: https://anchor.fm/frommusttilldawn and coming soon to Apple Music

20.01.2022 Looking for something fun to do over the mid-sem break? Check out our MUST baby photos competition! All you have to do is match current photos of MUSTers to their baby photos on the Google Form here: https://forms.gle/oXLDiYLsBiXZ1VzE6 We've included photos of what our MUSTers look like today, so you can have a go even if you haven't met us. Have fun!... Sarah & Dhruvi xoxo MUST Social, Cultural & Community Officers 2020 See more

20.01.2022 The Phone-It-In Film Festival have just opened voting for PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD!! Votes close on Wednesday 2nd Dec... if you loved a particular film (or made one yourself), share the love

19.01.2022 Recommended for you #HOLESP@CE by STRANGEkit Oct 3rd [Video description: A figure wrapped in red fabric falls dramatically in the centre of a green field outlined with trees. There is a clotheshorse and a small blue stool in the background.]... #holespace #strangekit

19.01.2022 Screw the stage, it’s screen time baby! ‘From MUST Till Dawn’, the official MUST Movie Podcast. Each episode, host Callum Cheah brings in a new guest to see if their favourite film can hold its own against 90’s cult classic ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’. Tears will be shed and blood will be bled, as together we try to answer the question ‘What really happens when George Clooney, a psychopath and a faithless preacher walk into a bar?’ Episode One coming Monday October 5th!... Keep up to date with releases and stay tuned to find out who guest #1 over on our instagram page https://www.instagram.com/frommusttilldawn/ Artwork by: Amelia Sheppard

19.01.2022 Monash Academy of Performing Arts, Centre for Theatre and Performance and Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music are running a wonderful free symposium - right now! Light the Touchpaper continues today and tomorrow 4.30pm & 6.30pm online - and it's a bumper line up! From this exchange they hope to test out new ideas, inspire public conversations, and broker trans- and interdisciplinary research and collaborations.... Check out the amazing program! xxoo https://www.monash.edu/mlive/light-the-touchpaper/

19.01.2022 OCTOBER 22 - OCTOBER 30 The MUST Cabaret Festival 2020 is coming. Stay tuned because next week we will start to introduce you to our wonderful performers! ... #GetReady for #CabFest2020

18.01.2022 Episode Six of From MUST Till Dawn is out now! This episode is a very exciting one, Callum Cheah discusses 'Persona' with ex-MUSTer Daniel Lammin Daniel Lammin is a graduate of Directing at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and the Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University. He received a Green Room nomination in 2014 for ‘Master Class' (Left Bauer Productions). His other directing credits include ‘Awakening’ (MUST/fortyfivedownstairs), ‘Sneakyville’ (Before Sh...ot), ‘Strangers in Between’ (Cameron Lukey/Don’t Be Down Productions), ‘Ryan’ (La Mama), ‘Columbine’ (MUST), ‘The Cutting Boys’ (La Mama) and ‘The Laramie Project’ (MUST). Daniel is also a film critic and writer for the Australian film website SWITCH (www.maketheswitch.com.au) and host of the Disney history podcast ‘Ink & Paint: A Journey Through the Disney Animated Classics’ (www.inkandpaint.com.au). Podcast available now on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UKVj6fAKIoqWEasBAfMsB Anchor: https://anchor.fm/frommusttilldawn

18.01.2022 Operate the machine yourself in the 10th element of HOLESP@CE . . . There are only a few more days left to experience STRANGEkit's HOLESP@CE!! At midnight this Sunday night the mischievous, psychedelic, digital maze will finally be sucked into its own reverse hyperlinked wormhole and disappear forever!... Make sure you have left no avenue uncrossed, soundbite uploading or gif unclicked, there’s more hiding than you might think ;) Thank you so much for your support of HOLESP@CE and STRANGEkit! If you enjoyed the journey consider voting for HOLESP@CE for the Melbourne Fringe Up People’s Choice Award! Jump into HOLESP@CE, imagination first, from now until Sunday at any time beginning here: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/holespce/ we can’t quite guarantee where you could end up ;) #holespace #strangekit #melbfringe #closingsoon

17.01.2022 TOMORROW - NETWORKING NIGHT Fast FIND: Date: Monday May 17th (Tomorrow)... Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm More Info: http://bit.ly/NetworkingNightFB Tickets: $8 - http://bit.ly/NetworkingNightTickets FIND Out More: Want to learn valuable hints for starting conversations with people about opportunities, about ideas, about theatre? Want to build your confidence and make some connections? MUST Artistic Director Yvonne Virsik will be hosting this fun night, with a wonderful, super-friendly group of diverse exMUSTers working successfully in the performing arts. They will present ideas on making connections and engaging with opportunities and also hold discussions in small groups about a range of topics you are interested in. Join in and get-connected! All are welcome! Monash Student Association (MSA) Monash University Monash Uni Clayton Campus FIND Festival | Monash Uni Student Theatre | 17 May - 3 June | Website: https://find-festival.squarespace.com/ | Facebook: https://bit.ly/findfestivalfb | Tickets: http://bit.ly/MUSTTickets #FINDFestival

16.01.2022 Interested in getting involved with an amazing project from the Melbourne Fringe Festival? Check out the details of their mass dance work, Multiply, below! "In a timely ode to community, Multiply is a participatory dance work created by @melbfringe and choreographed by @stephanielakecompany taking place this Saturday 28th November at Prahran Square. Registrations are open now to take part amongst hundreds of physically distanced participants to shake off the shackles of isolation in this spectacular art event. No experience or rehearsals required, find out more here." https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/multiply/

16.01.2022 The MUST 2020 Wrap Party & Awards Night Online Thurs December 3rd, 7.30pm - SAVE THE DATE! Everyone's welcome! With wonderful performances, games, awards and break out chill rooms, it's sure to be an excellent night! https://www.facebook.com/events/678810056154132... Voting for the Awards is now open till Nov 28 via this link: https://forms.gle/Jut7ir5NRW7BXVHd8 If you decide to vote, make sure you read all the guidelines on the form carefully. xxxoooo

16.01.2022 Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA) Festival of Ideas and New Developments FIND starts on Monday! Events include a networking night, Disney karaoke, dance-a-th...ons, film screening, intercultural night, the ultimate pyjama party, music improv marathon ad much more. Check out full program in the event's description: FIND Festival Central

15.01.2022 The Phone-It-In Film Festival's provocation for October is FILM NOIR! Remember, your film can be anywhere from 30 secs-5 mins long, and all you need is your phone! Check out the post to get involved

12.01.2022 What began as a small, multidimensional concept of rooms by Georgie Bright of STRANGEkit has grown into a 11-layered world of its own, and we're now asking you to board a shuttle for a visit! HOLESP@CE is LIVE!! First stop www.strangekit.com... We can't guarantee where you'll end up after that Things you need to know: - This experience is made to be engaged with on a computer - Your journey begins at www.strangekit.com - You determine the start and finish time inside the maze. Spend as long or as short as you like in each sp@ce. - Those who reach the end will be rewarded. - HOLESP@CE is open from October 3rd to 18th. #holespace #strangekit #nowshowing Presented by Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA)

11.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/109334682489631/videos/198320558792393

11.01.2022 The algorithms of STRANGEkit brought you here. You are about to enter The Sp@ce. # Open no doors. HOLESP@CE... TOMORROW WWW.STRANGEKIT.COM [Image description: A blurry low resolution screenshot of a landscape. It is a birds eye view of a town in a life simulation game of The Sims 4. There are several houses and trees and roads as well as a lake at the bottom. On the larger road is an orange car. In the very centre is a small circle of unidentifiable blurry figures or objects.] #holespace #strangekit #tomorrow

09.01.2022 PANDEMONIUM: A Zoom Play is on tonight and tomorrow at 6:30pm! Performed by student actors from the 2020 MUST Beginners & International Student Program, in their bedrooms in Melbourne, interstate and around the world, Pandemonium is a collection of scenes about being stuck together, going mad, and the end of the world. Click 'Going' on the Facebook event for more details https://fb.me/e/3im0wXRq6

09.01.2022 Our last Thursdays with Pals for the year! We'd love to see you today at 2pm today xx https://monash.zoom.us/s/95692324330 PASSWORD: 678900

08.01.2022 Congrats to Justin Heaton who won our MUST Baby Photos competition with 100% correct! How did you go?

08.01.2022 Episode Three of From MUST Till Dawn is out now! This episode Callum Cheah has not one but two guests! Celina Mack and Savanna Wegman, who have shown their interpretation of From Dusk Till Dawn here: https://docs.google.com//1LU-oOBgWVgxzWvcXeEPOkBZ-Nc/edit Celina is a Narrm based performance artist and director. Celina has been performing regularly for many years, with experience acting and creating in plays, musical theatre, short films and immersive theatrical events. C...elina has completed performance training across multiple institutions including Meisner Melbourne and VCA. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre and Performance at Monash University, also minoring in Film and Television Studies. Since beginning at Monash, Celina has realised her overwhelming passions for experimental performance and video art, collaborative devising and directing! This is where Celina first met Savanna Wegman and they began trialling their techniques for the absurd, co-directing small projects and experimental endurance/installation art pieces. Celina is excited to continue making artistic works which can be described as absurdist, surrealist, structuralist, mundane, affective or even daringly meaningless, with the aim of combining many artistic mediums and questioning any need for their separation. Savanna Wegman is Co-Director of STRANGEkit performance art collective and in her third year with MUST. She has delved into the directing and visual design guilds of theatrical creation and has worked on End Transmission (2018), Monash Shakespeare Company’s R&J (2019) and Do Not Collect $200 (2019). Through her creations, Sav is currently learning more about 3D art/design, alternate realities and cowboys. She is reading books about love, feminist science fiction and talking ferrets, and in lockdown is also practicing her soup making skills (current speciality = minestrone). At uni Sav studies theatre and performance, literature and digital humanities in a Bachelor of Arts and enjoys listing things in threes maybe a bit too much. She’s keen to discuss all things Playtime and Tarantino and expose some rare angry thoughts in this podcast which is very unlike Sav. Podcast available now on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UKVj6fAKIoqWEasBAfMsB Anchor: https://anchor.fm/frommusttilldawn

06.01.2022 "IN YOUR DREAMS" Part One - SNEAK PEAK We are thrilled to present LIAM PATERNOTT returning to the MUST stage for In Your Dreams Part One! Liam will be presenting an original live dance performance embracing the inspiration we can take from our mundane surroundings and our own intuition.... Many MUSTER’s will know Liam for his theatrical experience mainly in production management. Studying IT and Arts, Liam is also a co-creative producer and web developer for the artist collective STRANGEkit. His recent credits include Disinhibition (MUST, 2019) and HOLESP@CE (STRANGEkit & MUST, 2020) which was part of Melbourne Fringe. He has a growing interest in dance, especially street/club styles like house, and is taking part in Burn City Waack’s 8th Anniversary performance course. Through a combination of house, waacking and hip hop Liam will explore the pursuit of one’s dreams in his amazing dance interpretation. Don’t miss out on this fantastic LIVE evening of creativity, entertainment and inspiration! Grab your tickets here: http://bit.ly/InYourDreamsOneTickets Grab all the deets on our Facebook page: http://bit.ly/InYourDreamsOneFB

03.01.2022 Episode Four of From MUST Till Dawn is now live! This episode, Callum chats to Emlyn Sugden Emlyn Sugden is a friend, buddy and pal of Callum’s. OH, and he’s an actor at MUST, having performed in Holloway: A Brand New Musical, Slaughterhouse Five and of course, the odyssey that was, Fur on The Forwardline. Apart from finishing a degree in theatre, performance and musical theatre, during lockdown Emlyn has watched a lot of films. Perhaps, one would argue, not enough. Having w...atched such classics as From Dusk Till Dawn to The Wind Rises, back to From Dusk Till Dawn again, Emlyn still, to this day thinks, watching bad movies is not fun. A polarising opinion that got him onto this prestigious podcast. Podcast available now on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UKVj6fAKIoqWEasBAfMsB Anchor: https://anchor.fm/frommusttilldawn

02.01.2022 "IN YOUR DREAMS" Part One - SNEAK PEAK Are you a film buff? Want to examine when our anxieties and nightmares interact with the absurdities of everyday life? Or just want a laugh? The fabulous films of Shane Gardam have got it all covered!... Shane is a fringe artist and filmmaker, who has won 'Best Australian Short Film' for their documentary 'Westall' at the 2018 Sci-Fi festvial. Since then, Shane has had a focus on both written narrative work and improvised video content. Among these is the development of an expansive interactive webseries that includes video, text, discoverable websites, email correspondence and multiple fully fledged novels. Shane's work concentrates on the absurdities of mundane life, the speculative unknown, and why connection is vital to the human condition. They are committed to having made 150 short films by the end of the year, and are one third of the way there! A collection of five of Shane’s short films will be screened at In Your Dreams composed of a blend of comedy, drama and surrealist horror, though all serve to articulate themes of loneliness, vulnerability, and the value of human connection. Their response to the theme of In Your Dreams is sure to make you laugh one moment, and reflect the next, as they explore the anxieties of daily life, and reflect on their cynicism for the future. CONTENT NOTE: Mild nudity. Don’t miss out on this fantastic, thought-provoking screening, as well as a variety of responses from our talented performers! Tickets here: http://bit.ly/InYourDreamsOneTickets

01.01.2022 This montage, first shown at the wrap party, is just a taste of all the amazing projects that ran this year! Congratulations to everyone who created events or engaged with MUST in 2020! Thank you so much for your inspiring ideas and your loving commitment to our diverse community. Happy holidays and see you in 2021!... Music: Hey! Hey! by Moby, courtesy of https://mobygratis.com Edited by Liam Paternott