REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Bell Shakespeare
Bell Shakespeare‘s annual touring show is a theatre lover’s treat that promises to deliver classic Shakes with ingenuity, imagination, spectacle, and modern perspectives. This year, they’re taking Shakespeare’s best-known comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to audiences around Australia, but director … Continue reading REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Bell Shakespeare
REVIEW: WHITESNAKE3000 | CO3 and Zendra Giraudo
Zendra Giraudo is WHITESNAKE3000, one year after their contemporary dance theatre work premiered at The Blue Room Theatre in 2023’s Summer Nights program. CO3‘s independent dance initiative, IN.HOUSE, which provides support to an independent dance artist to further develop a … Continue reading REVIEW: WHITESNAKE3000 | CO3 and Zendra Giraudo
REVIEW: Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence | Crash Theatre Company
Crash Theatre Company had another chance to present their Martin Sims and Adelaide Tour Ready Award-winning show Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence (LMPWD) for one night only this past Friday the 8th at the Rechabite. LMPWD is an all-female musical … Continue reading REVIEW: Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence | Crash Theatre Company
PF24 REVIEW: Logue Lake | Geordie Crawley & Elise Wilson
Logue Lake is a local production co-created by writer Geordie Crawley and director Elise Wilson that uses headphones to take audiences on a choose-your-own horror adventure. Set in the genre’s most beloved milieu, a cabin in the woods, you are … Continue reading PF24 REVIEW: Logue Lake | Geordie Crawley & Elise Wilson
PF24 REVIEW: FOOD | Geoff Sobelle
Geoff Sobelle is bringing magic to the Maj and shamelessly playing with his FOOD at Perth Festival 2024. He’s a maitre d’ like no other, taking audiences on a food odyssey that begins with the origins of life on Earth … Continue reading PF24 REVIEW: FOOD | Geoff Sobelle
PF24 REVIEW: Are we not drawn onward to new erA | Ontroerend Goed
Belgian performance collective Ontroerend Goed returns to Perth Festival 2024 with their palindromic opus Are we not drawn onward to new erA. The show, whose title I’ll truncate to AWNDOTNE henceforth, is an impressive exploration of form and content that … Continue reading PF24 REVIEW: Are we not drawn onward to new erA | Ontroerend Goed
FW24 REVIEW: Maybe He’s Born With It, Maybe It’s ADHD | Colin Ebsworth
Colin Ebsworth, master storyteller and comedian, takes a long hard look at his life as a person with late diagnosed ADHD in Maybe He’s Born With It, Maybe It’s ADHD. He paints vivid pictures of his life as an othered … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: Maybe He’s Born With It, Maybe It’s ADHD | Colin Ebsworth
FW24 REVIEW: Colossal | Pear: But Braver | The Way Way Deep | Indigo Productions
Patrick and Hugo McPherson took Perth by storm at FRINGE WORLD 2023, collecting awards and buckets of stars for their joint effort Pear and Patrick’s solo show Colossal. They’ve come back to try their one-two punch again of Colossal and … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: Colossal | Pear: But Braver | The Way Way Deep | Indigo Productions
FW24 REVIEW: Reuben Solo – Please Clap
I don’t know where Reuben Solo came from. Apparently he’s been to Perth with his shows before, since as far back in time as 2022. He’s snuck into town again at the hot, frizzy, crunchy end of FRINGE WORLD to … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: Reuben Solo – Please Clap
FW24 REVIEW: Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit
Fans of midcentury (well, mid-last-century) Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries are in for a criminally good time at Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit. David Massingham and a quirky cast of crafty improvisors create and solve a new murder mystery at every … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit