The Week on Wednesday LIVE - with Van Badham & Ben Davison LIVE Podcast!
Van Badham and Ben Davison bring their hit #auspol podcast to the Fringe stage! An unapologetically left wing look at the big news stories of the week that pulls no punches and isn't afraid to speak truth to power.
Van and Ben are swapping their shed for the stage and the watchful eye of their dog Germanicus for the questions of a LIVE audience.
The Week on Wednesday LIVE podcast will give audience members the chance to ask questions of Van and Ben and be part of one of Australia's most listened to political podcasts.
Can we make this the most listened to episode of The Week on Wednesday ever?
Presented by: Van Badham and Ben Davison
Van Badham is a Melbourne-based theatremaker, journalist, critic, academic, activist, novelist and occasional broadcaster. She is currently employed as a weekly political columnist and culture critic for The Guardian Australia, while as a theatremaker she’s had more than 100 international productions of her work.
Van’s work for stage and musical theatre have appeared at international festival such as the Edinburgh Festival, New York Summer Play Festival, Royal Court Theatre, and have toured across the UK, US, Europe, and Australia.
Van has extensive experience as a keynote speaker, host, panelist, and consultant. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Creative Arts/Arts, and a Masters in Writing for Performance (First Class). She has lectured in Writing for Theratre and Writing for Film and Television, and tutored in Visual Art Theatre at the University of Wollongong. She has additionally taught programmes for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Tower Hamlets Idea Store (UK), the Central School of Speech and Drama (UK), Arts Tasmania, the NSW Writers Centre, the South Coast Writers Centre and Writers Victoria. She is presently a tutor for Guardian Masterclasses.