Friday, 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 01:07AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Twelve years ago this month New York City firefighters were called to duty for an unthinkable disaster. A third of all New York City Fire Department (FDNY) companies were dispatched to go in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:01PMWAAPA 3rd year music theatre students took a shot at Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, under the direction of WAAPA alumnus James Millar and the musical direction of David King. It was a slick…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:41PMFriday, August 23, 2013
I’d like to begin my next Spotlight by saying a few words about what it means to be an independent theatre maker in Perth and why it’s vital to get a view of the forest while still exami…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:43PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Hedda gets her hooks in deep. She’s crafty, cunning, complicated, and deadly cold. She’s no ones friend, no ones lover, no ones possession. Yet she is one of the most coveted female role…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:49PMMonday, August 19, 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 07:57PMSaturday, August 10, 2013
Édith Piaf is alive and well and living in Perth. From the streets of Paris to the corner room of a building in Perth called the Guild Studio, the chansons of Piaf reverberate with passion …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:42AMFriday, August 2, 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 08:00AMSaturday, July 27, 2013
The events that occurred in America on September 11, 2001 still continue to create ripple effects around the world, more than a decade later. As an American who was living in the US at the t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:21AMMonday, July 22, 2013
These kids are onto something. The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) presented its second Home Open this weekend (the first was back in June), and it was a fantastic success. Home Open is TCRF’s (…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:46AMMonday, July 15, 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 02:55AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Preparing for the role of Silda in Black Swan Theatre Company’s up-coming production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities, actor Vivienne Garrett took time to talk with Aussie Theatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMWednesday, July 10, 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 11:17PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
How much time do you spend online in a day? Do you live there, more in the virtual world than in the real world? Would you give up a complicated, messy, painful life in the real world to liv…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:31AMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Round and round it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows. The merry-go-round of love is turning swiftly at the Heath Ledger Theatre, as Black Swan launches its current production, Day One, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:32AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Is there anybody out there? Is there life on Mars? Have humans had close encounters with E.T.s? Artists and aliens have often collided in creative ways over the last few decades because the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:16PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Immersion is the operative idea at work in Russya Connor’s performance piece Sea Inside. From the moment we step through the theatre door into a red lit corridor lined with seashells and m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:29AMFriday, June 7, 2013
Amanda Muggleton is at Subiaco Arts Centre right now performing in The Book Club (written by Roger Hall and directed by Rodney Fisher) and she’s spinning a tale with exuberance and joy abo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Perth just got itself a new festival this year: the Perth International Jazz Festival. It ran over one weekend, May 24–26, and was headlined by Joe Lovano, Katie Noonan and Vince Jones in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30AMNeil LaBute’s Fat Pig, presented by The Blue Room Theatre and Red Ryder Productions, offers a lot of food for thought, and this production goes down a treat. LaBute examines the situation …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:28AMSunday, May 5, 2013
Since opening in 1970 Company has won a swag of Tony awards and been reinvented by directors all over the world. The contemporary, middle class themes and the fast pace of the show make it a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:12AMSunday, April 28, 2013
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company comes to the WA Museum during the school holidays to present its story Kaarla Kaatijin (written by Zac James) which means “to understand fire” in Noongar. T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:57PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Human cloning. Father and son animosity. Nature vs. nurture. Grief. Murder. Deception. Caryl Churchill explores all of these in A Number, but Perth Theatre Company (PTC) seems satisfied to l…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:44AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata is an odd choice for inclusion in WA Opera’s “2013: Year of the Divo” campaign – it’s about a woman and is very much a diva’s opera. But never mind…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:29PMBell Shakespeare brings Henry IV kicking and screaming into the 21st century with this marathon of Machiavellian political maneuverings that pit young punks against old geezers in a grungy …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:08PMSunday, March 3, 2013
Nearly a century after Bluebeard’s Castle premiered at the Budapest Opera in 1918, in a double-bill with The Wooden Prince, Perth is treated to the same double-bill as part of the Perth Fe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:13PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Birdboy is an original piece offered by The Wet Weather Ensemble, a young Perth theatre collective who aim to draw upon their diverse interests as writers, musicians, visual artists and pupp…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMMonday, February 11, 2013
The 2013 Perth Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday, as the heat-withered crowd at His Majesty’s Theatre was jolted by the crack of a rimshot from the orchestra pit, signalling the op…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:58AMFriday, February 8, 2013
I went into Minnie and Mona expecting a show that I would admire more for its method than its madness, but I left with all my expectations having been wildly exceeded. The Duck House have hi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AM 
