In today's Backstage Blog, we spoke to Jack Francis West, creator and performer of Dead Mum , the smash hit cabaret returning to Explosives Factory in the final week of Midsumma after a sellout season in Melbourne Fringe. Jack’s mum is dead. This show is about her… It’s also about you. Death is the most universal experience of the human condition. So why don’t we talk about it? Hey, why don’t we sing about it?! Dead Mum is a cabaret about death and grief, written by Jack Fra

Funkadelic, baby! Check out the glitz and glam going on in the rehearsal room of Disco is Dead! as they prepare to take to the stage next week at Explosives Factory! Full of fun, funk and disco fever, Disco is Dead! plays at Explosives Factory 3-7 February as a part of our Midsumma Festival hub lineup.

Take an early sneek-peek into the final rehearsals of He Partied like it's 1999 , which opens next week at Explosives Factory as a part of our Midsumma Festival lineup! He Partied like it's 1999 plays at Explosives Factory 27-31 January as a part of our Midsumma Festival Lineup.