Linh, Georgia and I started going full steam ahead with our show.

We had a few big brainstorming sessions and came up with A LOT of ideas. We ended up scrapping quite a few of them just because they seemed a bit far fetched and not very suitable for 3RRR. Georgia sent the list to Elizabeth and she came back with some good feedback.

In the end we decided on these interview topics:

1. Laneway Learning – an initiative in Melbourne doing creative night classes for low costs, things from knitting to wine tasting to burlesque.

2. Spamalot – a play being held from the 12th of June at the MLOC theatres that retells the story of King Arthur but with weird twists such as killer bunnies and show girls.

3. YGAP – a non-for-profit organisation that aims to reduce social problems by developing various fundraising campaigns, like the 5cent campaign that is starting up soon.

(Click on the links above if you want to find out more about these topics!)

I personally came up with the Spamalot idea as a friend of mine is performing in it. I helped set up the interview with the director and then Linh met them at rehearsals one night and did the interview there. It was good to do it in their own setting and Linh got to learn a lot more about the play – they actually got her up on stage at one point!

Having a pre-recorded interview let us feel a bit more comfortable for the show as we knew we could just play the interview and have some time to reconvene and relax whilst on air.

We also organised the Laneway learning and YGAP interviews for the day and everything was set to go.