REVIEW: Ruben Guthrie | Curtin Performance Studies and Hayman Theatre Company
Ruben Guthrie is complicated. He seems to have it all, a high-powered advertising career, a model for a fiancee, an apartment with views, but there are cracks in the foundation. His world quickly crumbles around him when his fiancee becomes … Continue reading REVIEW: Ruben Guthrie | Curtin Performance Studies and Hayman Theatre Company
REVIEW: Werewolf Priest! The Lamentable Ballad of Father Hank Grimby
If you like your retro-style entertainment in Perth, there’s a good chance you will have seen a moustachioed chap named Magnus Danger Magnus. He’s kind of an institution in this town, a “Perthonality” if you will. He’s a well-known, well-loved and … Continue reading REVIEW: Werewolf Priest! The Lamentable Ballad of Father Hank Grimby
REVIEW: As You Like It | Black Swan State Theatre
Director Roger Hodgman takes us from the Heath Ledger Theatre into the Forest of Arden for Black Swan’sproduction of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. It’s a pleasant pastoral foray, filled with laughs, quirky characters created by some of Perth’s most favourite mainstays and up-and-comers, and … Continue reading REVIEW: As You Like It | Black Swan State Theatre
INTERVIEW: Jenna Robertson and OperaBox
In my quest to investigate all the independent theatre companies and theatre makers in Perth, I noticed that one of the directors I had previously interviewed, Sarah McKellar of North Sea Boat Terminals, was directing an opera for an independent … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Jenna Robertson and OperaBox
REVIEW: Wish | Perth Theatre Co and Night Train Productions
Wish is extraordinary theatre. It is some of the finest storytelling you are likely to see this year, and it will leave a mark. Adapted by Humphrey Bower from the Peter Goldsworthy novel, Wish tells the story of a man who is asked … Continue reading REVIEW: Wish | Perth Theatre Co and Night Train Productions
REVIEW: The Mikado | ICW Productions
Sometimes the old classics need a little 21st century reboot. ICW Productions and Mark Barford have updated the perennially popular Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera The Mikado at the Regal Theatre with a lot of flair, new lyrics and a few iGadgets. … Continue reading REVIEW: The Mikado | ICW Productions
REVIEW: Elephents | The Last Great Hunt and The Blue Room
No, Elephents is not a musical; it’s a soap opera with song. But it turns out that he wasn’t really writing a musical after all. According to the show’s description, Elephents is a “surreal soap opera with songs where people find the power to … Continue reading REVIEW: Elephents | The Last Great Hunt and The Blue Room
REVIEW: Festen | WAAPA 3rd Year Acting
Festen is a dark piece of work. If you get a kick out of a group of people being horrible to each other for an hour and a half, then this play may be for you. Andrea Moor directs this stage … Continue reading REVIEW: Festen | WAAPA 3rd Year Acting
REVIEW: Orlando by Sarah Ruhl | Hayman Theatre Company at Curtin University
The first thing that popped into my head when I saw that Curtin University was performing Orlando was the 2003 film starring Tilda Swinton. Sadly, I can’t claim that playwright Sarah Ruhl or even author Virginia Woolf sprang to mind, but was … Continue reading REVIEW: Orlando by Sarah Ruhl | Hayman Theatre Company at Curtin University
Perth Arts Live Has Moved to WordPress
Picking up where we left off in October… I hadn’t realised just how long I left my poor little blog dormant. I went back home to Texas for Thanksgiving and completely abandoned it in favour of all things Fringe- and PIAF-related. … Continue reading Perth Arts Live Has Moved to WordPress