Manifest is a brilliant and powerful statement about power, resistance, the force of protest and how revolutions can go astray. You will not want to miss what promises to be one of Perth Festival’s highlights.
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INTERVIEW: Meet Tenth Muse Initiative, breathing fresh air into the arts scene
Tenth Muse Initiative put on arts events aiming to showcase and promote the diversity of Boorloo (Perth) talent, especially emphasising the works of under-represented people. Their next event, titled ‘fresh air’, will be held at Moana Hall on 21 November and features an array of poets, musicians, and artists of all kinds. We caught up with co-founders Saskia Willinge and Hannah Lee Tungate!
Theatre: “Love Letters To The Revolution” is a charming, unapologetic, and wildly entertaining rage against the machine
Seeing “Love Letters To The Revolution” feels like falling into an expertly crafted trap.
Legally Blonde the Musical is coming to Crown!
Brush up on your legal jargon and don your finest pinks because Legally Blonde the Musical will be hitting the Crown this April!
PERTH FEST REVIEW: Art Feast – The Darkness
Incorporating food, film and performance into one glorious spectacle, this unique and experimental event is the exact opposite of traditional.
PREVIEW: Chess the Musical
The upcoming production featuring Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Robert Mills revolves around the superpower rivalry between Soviet Russia and the United States in the form of a politically centred chess match. This musical powerfully paints a picture that like chess, the Cold War was a devious game.
FRINGE REVIEW: Matt Hale goes 'Bonkers'
Set in the gorgeous, heritage-listed Perth Girl’s School, Matt’s Fringe World Festival 2021 show is returning for the 6th year in a row. The years of experience were certainly a catalyst for a fun-filled show - turning your preconceived notions of hypnosis on their head and leaving the participants feeling a little BONKERS.
FRINGE REVIEW: Behold, the drink-spittingly good Reuben Kaye
A gifted artist is one thing – but one that uses their voice for good is another.
Bringing his new self-titled show to Fringe World Festival 2021, global cabaret sensation Reuben Kaye has given us A-class comedy, talent and vivid storytelling all in one fell swoop.
ART NATION: "It is Not Down in Any Map; True Places Never are" and "Exit Wounds" at Stala Contemporary
Stala Contemporary's latest offering is a stunning joint solo exhibition of two of Perth’s rising stars. Jarrad Martyn's It's Not Down in Any Map; True Places Never and Richard Healy's Exit Wounds.
How To Say I Love You: Selected Screen Works from Curtis Taylor
From an eccentric and obsessive sound designer to a search for authentic love in an ableist society, and Curtis Taylors’ own 2019 work Yulubidyi – Until The End, these short films are touching explorations of the expression of all kinds of love.
THEATRE REVIEW: Fully Sikh is a portrait of multicultural millennial Australia
What does it mean to be ‘Australian’? Furthermore, does the presence of such a supposed singular culture provide legitimate grounding to distinguish the ‘other’ from those deemed ‘Australians’? History lays down something of a jigsaw puzzle in reflection of this; a piece of which is provided by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa in Fully Sikh, a Barking Gecko Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company co-production.
REVIEW: AGWA'S ELECTRIC DREAMY ART BALL
The 2019 Art Ball was an explosion of the weird and wonderful, bringing together Perth’s art scene under one, beautifully dressed AGWA roof.
Interview with Art Ball director Grant Capriotti
We were lucky enough to have a chat with Art Ball director Grant Capriotti ahead of this Saturday’s Electric Dreams ball.
PERTH FESTIVAL REVIEW: ONE INFINITY
Simultaneously meditative and electrifying, One Infinity is an act of deep listening and profound engagement. This production features the Jun Tian Fang Music Ensemble, members of Dance North Australia and the Beijing Dance Theatre.
'Hey You There, Flower Girl': Exploring this New Exhibition
Hey You There, Flower Girl explores the highly gendered ideals of weddings, in which people are defined not by who they are, but by the role they are expected to play in the spectacle.
Theatre Review: The "Frankie's" Experience is Ambitious and Hilarious
Frankie’s is a sitcom set in a bar, where the regulars become part of each other’s lives and we become part of theirs. Except it’s not television, its theatre, and it’s not heavily scripted with a laugh track added after - it’s all improvised, and the laughs are real.
Live Review: The Spectacular Planet Earth II Live Experience
So, could the answer to more peaceful coexistence lie in the form of the universal language of music, and reflection upon our own behaviour and how it mirrors that of our ancestors and surrounding organisms? For two hours on a certain Friday night, I was tempted to conclude that this was the case.
Perth Festival Review: "White Spirit" is an "utterly immersive" experience
For this culturally curious reviewer, watching White Spirit was like eating a bite-sized portion of the Middle East, as I was filled for ninety minutes with the exuberant flavour of this beautiful region so sadly overlooked in the present
Fringe Review: Songwriting with Good Lighting is full of warm, fuzzy feelings
It the rollercoaster of friendship between youths, where every moment is momentous and should definitely have a song written about it, or many songs.