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The Bloom — A Response
We first sent Tate Fountain to review Jessie McCall’s work back in 2022. Now in 2024, McCall has a new work, ‘The Bloom’ as part of the Auckland Pride Elevates. Naturally, we sent Tate along to see the artistic evolution.
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The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave — A Response
Through the unce unce unce of ‘The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave’, Elise Sadlier pulls together some thoughts about the endurance-based dance work.
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Club Waack — Audaciously Dancing at the Intersections of Immersive Theatre and Community Building
From inside a re-imagined Raynham Park converted into a disco-bumping ‘Club Waack’, Zech Soakai gets shuffled across the dancefloor. With the downlow for bad apple, he reports back.
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Scale the Face — A Response
After catching ‘Is This All That You Had In Mind?’ last September, Samantha Cheong builds out the Mum’s Sugar Club theatrical universe with this review of ‘Scale the Face’.
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Late-Night Thoughts on the Intimacies of Queer Friendship
Late-night thoughts on the intimacies of queer friendship uncovered by Georgie Llewellyn through making ‘Cowboy Dreaming’ with their two wonderful friends.
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Queer Business Profile: Maiah Maiah
If you’re Tāmaki Makaurau-based you may have seen Maiah and her dog Chicken at a local market. If not, you’re in luck! Sarah Kreig sat down with them to fill us in on the journey of Maiah Maiah Ceramics.
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‘Trust Issues’ Audiovisual Album — A Response
Samantha Cheong headed along to Bridgeway Cinema to experience adv’s audiovisual debut album ‘Trust Issues’. She reports back for bad apple with her thoughts.
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This is not about Chilli and Wendy from Bluey
A poem from Natasha Hope-Johnstone about sapphic yearning and rage at 2:00 pm on a Saturday while drinking tea somewhere in the suburbs of Meanjin/Brisbane.
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KITTEN by Olive Nuttall
Those who get it, get it. In review of Olive Nuttall’s debut novel, ‘kitten’, kī anthony writes of trans experience. Somehow they also manage to reference ‘Haikyuu!’, Torrey Peters and ‘My Immortal’ along the way.
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From the Editor — A 2024 Reflection
Lead editor Damien Levi tries to sum up bad apple’s 2024 in retrospect, with a selection of ten pieces to read over the summer.
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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