Hello darling pies!!!! Who we love so much!! Hope you’re having a beautiful, beautiful week.

In today’s Ratfood we unpack the notion of stunt casting and publicity/marketing stunts, particularly in relation to the global search for Dolly Parton in ‘Dolly! The Musical’ taking place primarily on social media and the ethics and pros and cons involved in these kinds of casting processes.

We also chat all about our week at the theatre including our UNMATCHED evening at ‘Beetlejuice The Musical’ (featuring the writer Eddie Perfect) and ‘Storked’ by Myfanwy Hocking down at Theatre Works; a piece about bodily autonomy and the looming choice of whether or not to have kids, and whether that choice is truly ours or not.

We finish the ep by touching on the current social media landscape, unpacking some of our own comment sections and chatting about the prices people are willing to pay for rage bait.

We love you so much, and we’ll see you for another ep on Monday!

Mwa mwa mwa.

xx

Mel & Sam

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Mel & Sam would like to acknowledge that Ratbag is being recorded on Stolen Land.

The original custodians of this land have had a rich history of storytelling for over 65,000 years, and we pay our respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation whose land we are recording Ratbag on.

Treaties were never signed. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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A Grouse House Podcast

Recorded at Haven't You Done Well Productions

Produced by Thomas Zahariou & Lucy Bain

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