Is Anyone Even Watching?
Olivia Muscat
World Premiere
Presented by Arts House and Melbourne Fringe as part of Radical Access
Wednesday 8 – Sunday 12 October 2025
Wed – Fri, 8.30pm
Sat, 2pm & 8.30pm
Sun, 5pm
60 minutes, no interval
Tactile Tour and Audio Described performance
Available for all performances. Tactile Tour commences 1 hour prior.
Auslan performance
Fri 10 Oct
Post-show artist talk for all ticket holders
Fri 10 Oct
Tickets
Standard $40
Reduced $25
BLAKTIX $15
Companion Card Free
A small transaction fee will be charged per order.
Warnings
This performance contains adult themes and triggering content including ableism and discrimination of blind/ low vision community, mild coarse language, haze, loud music, very loud sound effects, sudden loud noises, abrupt lighting changes, low lighting, lights black out and lights change colours and intensity.
Pre-Show Access Session
All shows include a 15-minute drop-in session 30 minutes prior to start time for anyone who would benefit from being in the performance space beforehand, to learn more about the work and meet the performers in a relaxed setting.
Relaxed Space
Audience members are welcome to come and go as they please, be themselves, make noise, stim, and respond to the work for the duration.
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St
North Melbourne
Wheelchair Accessible
Quiet Space Available
Assistance Animal
Companion Card
Auslan Interpreting
Audio description
Tactile Tours
Assistive Listening
Visual Rating 50%
Aural Rating 50%A glitter and girl-pop fuelled exploration of identity, exclusion and being unapologetically you.
Wake up your Furby, dust off your password journal and put on your jelly sandals. You’re invited to the most 2000s sleepover party ever.
Is Anyone Even Watching? is a joyous work of experimental theatre that challenges beauty standards, ableist stereotypes, and societal expectations.
Through spooky stories, spilled secrets, make-overs and super cool dance routines, Is Anyone Even Watching? presents a celebration of identity and not being afraid to be you.
From theatre-kid fever dreams to everyday discrimination – Is Anyone Even Watching? explores a new perspective on the classic coming of age story, offering a glimpse into the melodramas and memories of a tween girl growing up in suburban Australia.
About the artists
Olivia Muscat is a totally blind writer, actor, performer and disability activist. Her writing has been featured in several notable anthologies and publications. Her children’s book, My Name is Jemima will be released by Scribble Kids Books in June 2025. Since 2022, Olivia has been awarded residencies at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Arts House through Culture Lab and Darebin Arts Speakeasy. In the screen sector, Olivia participated in the development of a comedy series by Alistair Baldwin with Stephen Kearney and Lisa Wang, and last year was shortlisted as part of the Screen Australia and SBS Digital Originals development program.
Zoe Boesen
Zoe is a performer, theatre maker, dramaturg/director and producer. Recent performance credits include Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Little Ones Theatre/45 Downstairs), Security (Darebin Speakeasy), Dance Nation (Red Stitch), Suddenly Last Summer (Red Stitch), Fallen, (She Said) (Greenroom Award Nominee – Independent Theatre: Performer) and Abigail’s Party (MTC). Producing and dramaturgy credits include Conduit Bodies (Arts House/Melbourne Fringe/Alter State) (Greenroom Award Winner - Outstanding Technical Achievement: Experimental Performance) (Melbourne Fringe Award Nominee: Best Experimental), and I Am (Not) This Body (Arts House/Melbourne Fringe) (Melbourne Fringe Access & Inclusion Award). Zoe is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Loom Arts and Management.
Hannah Fallowfield
Hannah Fallowfield is a Naarm-based director and theatre maker. Recent credits include: Telethon Kid (Malthouse Theatre), Dough!, (Melbourne Fringe), Love You Bitch (Theatre Works), Love Me (Bar)Tender, (Arts House & Darwin Festival), LIARBIRD (CRACK), I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Cooking For (Sydney Fringe & Melbourne Fringe) and Truly Madly Britney (Theatre Works). Hannah graduated with a Masters of Directing for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2018. She has completed internships with the Live Art Development Agency in London, and Melbourne Theatre Company. Hannah is one half of award-winning performance collective Stage Mom, creating participatory innovations across live art, theatre and screen.
Brigid Gallacher
Brigid Gallacher is an actor, director, musician and dramaturg. She was recently the assistant director on Escaped Alone and What If If Only at Melbourne Theatre Company and worked as a dramaturgy placement at the Malthouse Theatre on Monsters. Her directing credits include A Chekhov Triptych (Speakeasy/Melbourne Fringe), Saving Spiders (Speakeasy/Melbourne Fringe) and Here, In the Sugarcane (FortyForty Home). Her recent theatre performances include Milk (Fortyfive Downstairs), Things I Know To Be True (Theatre Works), Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Little Ones Theatre) and In The Club (Bullet Heart Club).
Hannah Reekie
Hannah Reekie is a writer, producer and Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Loom Arts and Management. She has a lived experience of disability and complex mental health. Hannah has worked in business and financial management for over ten years, and holds a Master of Business in Arts and Cultural Management. She is an experienced consultant and facilitator in both the community and arts sectors. Hannah’s written work has been featured in numerous publications including The Saturday Paper and Archer Magazine. Her work centres around her lived experience of disability and advocacy for the disability and mental health communities.
Artist statement
I have always been drawn to unravelling the ways joy, rage, and defiance intersect, particularly for disabled people and for me specifically as a blind person. Is Anyone Even Watching? is the embodiment of all of these things. It is also my way of reclaiming dance, bright colours and sparkles, and my own life trajectory as a person who has always been drawn to theatre and the arts, but who has been constantly kept out by dated notions of what it means to be disabled and what disabled people can do.
At its heart, Is Anyone Even Watching? is a show about my specific identity but it’s also about the universal experience of just trying to exist and be happy in the body and world you live in.”
- Olivia Muscat
Artistic credits
Collaborative Performer: Zoe Boesen
Director: Hannah Fallowfield
Dramaturg: Brigid Gallacher
Producer: Hannah Reekie
Details
World Premiere
Presented by Arts House and Melbourne Fringe as part of Radical Access
Wednesday 8 – Sunday 12 October 2025
Wed – Fri, 8.30pm
Sat, 2pm & 8.30pm
Sun, 5pm
60 minutes, no interval
Tactile Tour and Audio Described performance
Available for all performances. Tactile Tour commences 1 hour prior.
Auslan performance
Fri 10 Oct
Post-show artist talk for all ticket holders
Fri 10 Oct
Tickets
Standard $40
Reduced $25
BLAKTIX $15
Companion Card Free
A small transaction fee will be charged per order.
Warnings
This performance contains adult themes and triggering content including ableism and discrimination of blind/ low vision community, mild coarse language, haze, loud music, very loud sound effects, sudden loud noises, abrupt lighting changes, low lighting, lights black out and lights change colours and intensity.
Pre-Show Access Session
All shows include a 15-minute drop-in session 30 minutes prior to start time for anyone who would benefit from being in the performance space beforehand, to learn more about the work and meet the performers in a relaxed setting.
Relaxed Space
Audience members are welcome to come and go as they please, be themselves, make noise, stim, and respond to the work for the duration.
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St
North Melbourne
Wheelchair Accessible Quiet Space Available Assistance Animal Companion Card Auslan Interpreting Audio description Tactile Tours Assistive Listening Visual Rating 50% Aural Rating 50%Supported by –
This project has been supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; Arts House through City of Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe, Loom Arts and Management, and Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy Development Program.
Image credit: Tatanja Ross
Image description: A colorfuly Y2K inspired collage featuring a young woman wearing a sparkly pink sequin jacket, a white t-shirt with a blue lace top over it, and white belt. She has dark wavy hair with blonde highlights and some bright metallic hair extensions. There are several small, plastic butterfly clips in her hair in opaque purple, blue and pink. Photographs of the woman appear multiple times across the collage in different poses: smiling, holding a hairbrush as a microphone and singing, adjusting her oversized, blue-tinted glasses, as well as looking thoughtful while holding a pen with a fluffy pink top to her chin and looking down at a fluffy pink diary.
The collage is decorated with playful stickers and drawings, including dolphins, butterflies, metallic hearts, glittery stars, a smiley face, and flowers. There are also some 3D puffy heart stickers and a pink pen placed diagonally across the bottom left. The background is a mix of pastel blue and grid paper, with colorful squares and hand-drawn elements adding to the fun, teenage scrapbook vibe.
