Wednesday, August 20, 2014
His Majesty’s Theatre is a fitting venue for David Suchet’s touring vehicle The Last Confession: it’s a bit old-fashioned, and the red interior goes well with the costumes and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:36PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
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 Bo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:10AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
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, Wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:26AMMonday, May 12, 2014
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:15AMThursday, May 8, 2014
No, Elephents is not a musical; it’s a soap opera with song. In an interview I did with writer Jeffrey Jay Fowler (JJF) and Georgia King earlier this year about their Fringe show Second Ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:04AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
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 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Uncle Jack, Perth playwright Ross Lonnie’s latest work, saw a timely opening at The Blue Room this week, as it fell on the week leading up to ANZAC Day. This autobiographical play, dir…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:00AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Two young lads from Ireland and a young chick from America who together call themselves Endless Theatre Company have moved their base of creative operations from Sligo, Ireland, to Perth for…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:13AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
The independent theatre scene continues to gain momentum in Perth with the introduction of a new Independent Theatre Festival at Subiaco Arts Centre, presented by the Perth Theatre Trust. Th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Robert Wilson’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a form of theatrical water torture. The deafening sound cues of thunder claps and driving rain drove probably a half-dozen sane people out of the the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:23PMThere is an average of 1507 things in the rooms of the 1200 young Australians that Barking Gecko profiled in their online platform The Generator Project, and it’s this number that playwrig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:38AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
What happens when two Fringe World Festival 2013 award-winners get together and collaborate on a Fringe World 2014 project? We’re about to find out, as we are less than a week away from th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:32PMSunday, February 9, 2014
Perth Festival 2014 is upon us, and one of the first pieces of international theatre on the program is Mies Julie, the Baxter Theatre Centre/South African State Theatre’s production of Yae…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:55PMThursday, February 6, 2014
It wasn’t until I attended Will Pickvance’s lecture Anatomy of the Piano at the Noodle Palace that I learned that the piano is a living organism. Here I was thinking that it was just a s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:34PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Nicole In Red is a production house founded and run by Nicole Warren, one of Perth arts scene’s movers and shakers, and someone who is equally as comfortable on stage as she is behind the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:21PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Perth’s theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:29PMFriday, November 22, 2013
In Black Swan’s last hurrah for 2013 the company brings a bit of Edinburgh Fringe to Perth with Midsummer [a play with songs] by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre. The show was a fringe hit …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:23PMSTRUT Dance has been busy this month with an open dance platform called Eyes Wide which showcased all manner of interesting contemporary dance pieces, workshops and films at the King Street …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:22PMSunday, November 3, 2013
The Hardest Way to Make an Omelette by Jessica Harlond-Kenny is simply wonderful. Harlond-Kenny has devised this one-woman show over time, slow cooking it in that clever brain of hers, worki…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:54PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Jessica Harlond-Kenny has been hard at work finding out The Hardest Way to Make an Omelette. She’s a freelance theatre artist who can be found both behind the scenes and front of house at …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:08AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
There’s a hairy drag queen in a sequined dress lying on a lounge, bathed in magenta light. There are cow skulls sitting on shelves next to vials of curious things and strange artefacts…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:18AMSaturday, October 19, 2013
Black Swan State Theatre Company officially launched their 2014 season Monday night at the Heath Ledger Theatre at the State Theatre Centre. On hand for the evening’s festivities to warm u…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:01PMPerth’s theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:58PMThursday, October 10, 2013
North Sea Boat Terminals’ reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is budding with interesting and daring ideas that ask the audience to think about this tale of woe in new ways. It�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:27PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Perth’s theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:41PMSunday, October 6, 2013
Perth’s theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:06PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Broken Colour, a new work written by Nina Pearce, directed by Michael McCall and presented by The Blue Room and Same Cat, tackles the subject of mental illness and coupling in the modern wor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:31AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
This was my first introduction to this beloved Australian story, one that generations of Aussie children grew up on, either through Colin Thiele’s book or the 1976 movie based on the b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:07PMMonday, September 23, 2013
Analisa Bell comes DownStairs at the Maj with her new cabaret based on songs sung and inspired by Marilyn Monroe. The genesis of the show came from a moment outside a Melbourne theatre, afte…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:09AMThursday, September 12, 2013
And so opens a new production of Macbeth, this time presented by Class Act Theatre at Subiaco Arts Centre’s studio, directed by Stephen Lee and starring Rhoda Lopez as Lady Macbeth and Nic…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:29PMFriday, September 6, 2013
Tim Winton’s Shrine is beautifully flawed; somehow, structurally, its scope seems beyond the confines of theatre and it might seem a better fit for film, or be best savored from the page. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:07AM 
