Halina is an entertainingly wild frolic through alternate universes - some recognizable and some summoned from the depths of the imagination.
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Halina is an entertainingly wild frolic through alternate universes - some recognizable and some summoned from the depths of the imagination.
Staring up-and-coming stage actor Abigail Martin as Lucy, the play is not at all for the faint hearted but highlights an incredibly important and too often taboo issue. The characters face self-doubt, guilt, anger, blame, isolation, powerlessness and the enormous courage needed to confront the past in an incredibly honest and sensitive way.
What produced the cognitive dissonance was that, inside the KEN DOM(n)E and only a few metres away from a joke that said “Old man noodle say man with wholein pocket feel cocky all day long”, Bruce Fummey's show is all about the trauma and ills of racial stereotyping.
I can only describe the entire experience from the point of arriving at the Noodle Palace as sexy. Sometimes I was comfortable and somewhat aroused, other times I was scared for my bubble being invaded.
First up, we have the English ‘middle-class private educated white boy’ Chris Turner’s Pretty Fly show which is touted as a journey of life through hip hop and secondly Perth’s own new-New Yorker Josh Makinda, performing a very impromptu and crowd-tailored comedy, Lots of Ideas and Limits .
It's a weird and wacky tale told masterfully by Burke and it's so crazy and hilarious that it just works.
This Show Does Not Include Live Nude Girls is a great night out. It gives you a taste of an underperformed style of theatre molded with improvisation. Prepare to be entertained.
IntotheMask aren’t content with just bringing commedia dell'arte to Perth, they are seeking to form a unique version of it on the shores of the swan.
This entrepreneurial duo will attempt any kind of seductive ploy to swindle the audience into the world of their salacious antics. No seat is safe from Bernadette’s promiscuous eye or her determined perusals amongst the audience, especially since her microphone is cordless.
Not burdened by success, Midlandia is worth attending because it has to be.
Everybody loves to laugh. Live comedy id one of my absolute favourite things so I decided that I would spend most of my time trying to make myself laugh until my brains fell out. I spent the opening night at Fringe in the DeLuxe tent and it was an interesting and eclectic lineup, and if last night was anything to go by, Fringe this year is going to be a good one!
From start to finish I had a smile on my face, clever historical jokes from the era opened the performance and an upbeat and catchy duet sung by the couple showed the audience what they were in for.
This year’s Fringe Festival is the most ambitious to date; With over 200 acts performing over the 4 weeks beginning with tonight’s VIP launch, as well as expanding into the Swan region with Midlandia (so much class with the extra ‘i’) nobody could argue with that.