#malthouse

[chrismbr]

#Malthouse Nosferatu. Transferring a great film to the stage has to do *something* with the work - identify what its peculiar quality is and double down on it in theatrical terms; Malthouse did this with Melancholia. This transforms the creepy silent 1920s into a contemporary Australian ecosatire with easy-laugh dialogue. Undercooked without the satisfaction of medium-rare. (at Malthouse Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbFHSlOSko/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dadsinsuits]

Kit Malthouse

[6v-theblog]

Frances Malthouse

[shakespearenews]

Last October, New Zealand’s arts council pulled funding for the Shakespeare Globe Festival, a school event of 30 years’ standing. They said it lacked relevance to decolonising Aotearoa. Days later, with the support of then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern – once a participant – the program was reinstated.

A 2013 Australian adaptation of King Lear called The Shadow King also hatched new meanings. Developed for Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre by director Michael Kantor and Indigenous artist Tom E. Lewis, who played Lear, the production’s dominant visual motif was earth. The all-Indigenous cast performed on a stage of red dust which came to coat their bodies and mark their clothes.

[callmekatelyn]

officially obsessed with Mimi Malthouse, so jealous

[1llus1on1st]

since i haven’t posted any art (let alone original characters) in a while, here

have some robots

From left to right, they’re Neal Dancer (He/Him), Dr. Malthouse (Any but prefers gender neutral pronouns), and 2Q6 (She/They).

Neal Dancer (DANCER-N34.L) could’ve been a superhero in a different life under different circumstances, but his now peaceful environment ended up turning him into a giant goofball with the ability to shoot miniature chakrams from his wrists. A war machine after a war serves no purpose… therefore, Neal is beholden to absolutely nothing and no one.

His personality is cattish: He’s the kind of guy who’ll somehow manage to climb on top of your fridge and jokingly tell you to fuck off when you tell him to get down, only getting down once you’re out of eyeshot. And he’ll laugh and laugh and laugh, because he’s fun loving to a degree that could be very easily mistaken for hedonism.

He’s the most human out of the cast, a human brain being entirely intact inside of his head. He enjoys the company of his friends, and ultimately means no harm to anyone… but he is quite prone to accidentally harming others, which is where Dr. Malthouse comes in.

Dr. Malthouse (69266-APP-COMFORTERM4) is a machine that was initially designed as a replacement for a war medic (APP stands for Ares-Panacea Project), and it retains the ability to heal others through both medical and mental aid. The metal parts of Malthouse are covered in little compartments and drawers filled with medical tools, an amount comparable to a first aid kit the size of a briefcase.

The bubbly stuff is not metal. It’s a gel that is plush as skin and is warmed by the surrounding wiring to a skinlike warmth. It differs from skin by the fact that it’s perfectly smooth, translucent with large air bubbles suspended inside it, and changes color based on Malthouse’s emotions (The default is turquoise, with red for anger, orange for curiosity, yellow for happiness, green for sadness, and purple for fear).

The emotion chart is handy to have because Malthouse can’t visibly emote any way else. Its movements are robotic and its mouth is painted on. Its voice is similarily unexpressive, being a gentle but still very robotic text to speech voice, but it makes up for that by speaking with a romantic eloquence, a poem in every sentence longer than 2 words.

If you’re having stress-induced sleeplessness, it’ll let you rest your head in its thighs and it’ll read you a bedtime story to help you forget about the world long enough to drift off to sleep. If you need to cuddle, it’ll let you bury yourself into its gel and pet you like a cat. If you just need to vent, it’ll listen to every word you have to say. It was ultimately designed to comfort, and it’s very good at it.

Malthouse and Neal are good friends, despite what could be seen as opposite personalities on the surface. But both of them are creatures of humor, and Malthouse will be the first to tell you that the fact that it has a clown wig made out of the same stuff as its skin is absolutely hilarious.

2Q6 (SunValleyCasino–2176) was initially built to work at a casino, serving a role not dissimilar to a Jollibot at a Jollibee’s. The casino shut down due to multiple scandals, and the robots there were all essentially thrown in the dumpster with its closing. 2Q6 woke up again.

It’s a rare sight to see 2Q6 not in a good mood. This is majorly facilitated by the fact that she no longer has any responsibilities. Neal finds a kindred spirit in them; both of their hearts are as free as the wind. 2Q6 is mildly offput by Neal’s seemingly endless supply of weapons designed to kill and/or maim, but she ultimately understands Neal’s situation and ignores it.

In terms of exceptional abilities, their left forearm has a card shuffler in it, but compared to Neal’s quasishurikens and Malthouse’s reputation as an entire hospital on legs, 2Q6’s laden talent is harder to pinpoint. She’s ultimately determined that their exceptional ability in the group is her ability to use her screen face as a makeshift television/computer monitor, and is therefore fully capable of running DOOM, unlike Neal whose screens are only capable of displaying his facial expressions and Malthouse whose closest thing to a screen is a heartbeat monitor.

They claim that the panel on her chest covers a compartment with a little hamster on a wheel that powers their body. Whether this is true I have absolutely no idea.

[eaglesnick]

101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government

Thing 6

The relatively unknown Secretary of State for Education, Kit Malthouse, has been accused of taking "cheap shots at a profession already on its knees" during his Conservative Party Conference speech. He accused school and college leaders of “hanging on to meritocracy" As over almost 90% of schools are rated by Ofsted as either good or outstanding, this clearly isn’t true.

Academic studies shows that the most influential, the most powerful single factor determining academic attainment is POVERTY

“Children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are likely to do significantly worse at school in the UK than their relatively more affluent peers (Raffo et al., 2007). Current UK central government austerity policies and pressures of performativity on schools are likely to have exacerbated this inequality." (Ian Thompson & Gabrielle Invinson, Poverty in Education Across the UK’, Cambridge University Press 2020)       

Malthouse has “generally voted for a reduction in spending on welfare” (TheyWorkForYou.com) thereby doing nothing to reduce poverty. He has voted against scrapping university tuition fees, against restoring the Education Maintenance Allowance and against maintenance grants and nurses' bursaries.

[neptunehenriksen]

I'm very excited to be part of Temple of Desire by Karma Dance coming to Malthouse Theatre this October, for three shows only!

A celebration of spirituality and sensuality, through the beauty of classical Indian dance.

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[dougwallen]

Bojana Novakovic feature for Broadsheet

[fazcinatingblog]

Unfair when you get footy grids like "coached by Craig McRae" and the three vertical options may as well be "can't be Italian", "no curly haired freaks" and "preferably someone big and fast"

[firkinron]

Blue Ox Malthouse

Maine’s Blue Ox Malthouse 2023 Year In Review: 10 Years Of Maine Malt; Expansion, Beer Collaborations, and Two Malt Cup Awards Blue Ox Malthouse is on the verge of becoming the largest floor malting operation in North America. PRESS RELEASE (RadCraft Craft Beer Co-op) LISBON FALLS, ME— 2023 will go down as a historic year for Maine’s first malting operation, Blue Ox Malthouse. The company…

[chrismbr]

#Malthouse Monsters. Not as successful as Matthew Lutton-Alison Whyte’s The Bloody Chamber 2013, nor as annoying as Chunky Move’s 2009 Black Marrow, but with a cosy start like 2019’s Declan Greene-Zahra Newman Wake in Fright, this narrates a descent into dark and terrifying places (which triggered me somewhat: I only just remained seated). But like many horrors, the journey is much more effective than the denouement, and the narrative style distanced too much. Still, a stylish demonstration of how dance can communicate the unspeakable effectively. (at Malthouse Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmz3kTVy9Ld/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dadsinsuits]

Kit Malthouse

[6v-theblog]

Frances Malthouse

[cassiefairy]

Home tour of a cosy country cottage with plenty of springtime style

The interior of this 1790s Malthouse Cottage has the quaintest farmhouse look, with cosy corners and plenty of sunshine streaming in to welcome spring. Check out the home tour to be inspired to create your own springtime style...

Welcome to the East Sussex home of Jack Russell terrier Louis, who shares his idyllic country cottage with his owners Howard & Jane Dowthwaite. The family moved into the cottage in 2020 and I was lucky enough to interview Jane for Reclaim magazine early last year. You can still buy a physical copy or download the digital version of issue 74 of Reclaim magazine through the back issue archive and…

[colonellickburger]

Peter Mitchell. Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, junction of Cross Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973