{"id":21668,"date":"2026-10-09T03:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=21668"},"modified":"2026-10-09T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:44:16","slug":"observer-dune-but-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/10\/09\/observer-dune-but-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Dune But Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From &#8216;over the ditch&#8217; in New Zealand, Dune But Worse has arrived in Australia for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Performances are until October 11 at the Trades Hall and October 22-24 at the Ballarat Mechanics&#8217; Institute.<br>Dune But Worse is a 50-minute parody retelling of Frank Hebert&#8217;s Dune, told by a French-trained jester in a custom sandworm costume.<br>&#8216;Locally tolerated clown&#8217; Sean Burnett Dugdale-Martin has spread their wings and flown their New Zealand coop.<br>Performances: Until Oct 11 in Festival Hub, Trades Hall. Oct 22 &#8211; 24 at the Ballarat Mechanics&#8217; Institute.<br><strong>Cheryl Threadgold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pictured: San Burnett Dugdale-Martin in Dune But Worse.<br>Photo: Charlie Jewell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;over the ditch&#8217; in New Zealand, Dune But Worse has arrived in Australia for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Performances are until October 11 at the Trades Hall and October 22-24 at the Ballarat Mechanics&#8217; Institute.Dune But Worse is a 50-minute parody retelling of Frank Hebert&#8217;s Dune, told by a French-trained jester in a custom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21676,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions\/21676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}