59 stories by "Cicely Binford"
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 se…
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…
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…
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…
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 Hand…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 theatre…
There 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 playwright…
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 the …
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 Yael …
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 sonor…
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 sc…
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 provide …
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 ba…
STRUT 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 …
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…
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 so…
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…
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 up …
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 provide …
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's not…
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 provide …
