@keithgow
Playwright & theatre critic (The Saturday Paper, Time Out, Theatre First). Bi. He/him. Melb, Australia Loves: theatre, TV, film, travel. http://www.keithgow.com/ Support my writing: https://ko-fi.com/keithgow1975
At least two people have been arrested in Queensland for saying "from the river to the sea" today at a protest. I think we all knew this day was coming. A dark milestone in our homegrown authoritarian decline.
Thank you. It is - a wonderful opportunity and a wonderful headshot!
Thanks Carla!
Photograph of Keith, with curly hair, a trimmed beard, wearing thin rimmed glasses. His white shirt is dotted with dozens of tiny blue whales that can't really be deciphered in this photograph. The background is soft focus and he's slightly backlit.
Keith Gow is a playwright and theatre critic. His plays have been seen across Australia and in the UK and South East Asia. His most recent play, Turn Turn Turn (Theatre Works, 2023) was described by The Age as "an ambitious queer sci fi drama". Keith's critical writing has been published in The Saturday Paper, Time Out, Australian Arts Review, Witness Performance and on his own blog, Theatre First. His first book, Where's David Lynch?, will be published in 2026 by Smith Street Books.
New headshot and bio as part of the announcement that I am taking part in La Mama's IMMERSE program in 2026. A group of 8 mid-career writers will get together every week for 12 weeks to support each other in creating a new work of theatre. I'm excited to be involved!
I figured, if I was going to spend my life dedicated to fiction, it might be better if it was theatre.
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
At least three of these pairs are about to kiss, actually.
Clock time is fake. Money is fake. Latitude and longitude don't really exist. All words have been made up.
What exactly is your point here?
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
Oh that’s my friend Montressor’s wine cellar
Turns my stomach to see cities with millennia of history flattened by United States and Israel, two of the fakest countries in the world.
Most of them aren't much younger than Jolene Blalock or Garrett Wang when they were cast in their respective shows when kid me saw them as grown ups
Australia had free university for most of the 70s and 80s.
Yeah this is puzzling
it's because no human actor could possibly have the sex appeal of the cartoon fox isn't it
best to simply admit defeat
What the hell?!
Haha yep.
Simple digital sketch of Darem Reymi with his face screwed up, vomiting glitter down his front. Text: "we lack a lot of enzymes"
as a lactose intolerant person who loves ice cream, I really relate to Darem
There’s really only one way to say this: don’t fuck with historic lots. Have we not learned from the MGM debacle?
I love Matt's writing and his bookstore is amazing. Here's to making his side hustle his actual hustle!
Matt is the reason I and so many others have careers. He deserves all the best in the world, and any way you can help will go to a truly good dude.
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
After what Trump has done in the past 12 months, there is zero reason for any nation to ever agree to another deal with the USA.
You would have to be Australian Govt level of stupid to do so.
YEAR OF THE ROOSTER is ostensibly a Greek Tragedy, but this satire on consumerist America and toxic masculinity feels more like a story of deserved comeuppance. It's silly but the production is a knock-out. www.keithgow.com/2026/03/revi...
We should never have watched it in the first place.
The things about Star Trek is that it‘s always had such a range of storytelling even within each different show that people now remember only the ones they liked best and forgot about the others (or deride them as „filler“) and decided these ones are the actual „Star Trek“.
I don't think I knew that!
"often attributed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, since he never said it.
She should have gone with "my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives" from A Few Good Men.
It feels so basic bitch to say Hamlet, but I'm going to say Hamlet.
