Whistleblower | Heath Ledger Theatre | Until 7th March | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Last Great Hunt, a mainstay of Perth’s improvisational and interactive theatre community, has swept into Perth Festival this year with the company’s new show Whistleblower, a Perth Festival-commissioned genre defying performance where the protagonist is a theatregoer plucked from the audience […]
Gatz | Octagon Theatre | 1-3 March | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Superb. That’s the word that spilled out of my mouth when first asked to describe Gatz, currently showing at the Octagon Theatre as part of Perth Festival and performed by New York theatre company Elevator Repair Service. Spread across eight hours of performance and breaks, and adapted from one of the most heralded novels […]
Stephen Fry has announced in an emotional video that he has spent the last two months battling with prostate cancer, and is currently recuperating from surgery. The broadcaster, revealing that he had major surgery in early January 2018, spoke openly on having to undergo surgery, his fears and his decision to keep it secret. “They took […]
collageN | Paper Mountain | til Feb 19th | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Fringe is into its second half, and as the hugely popular shows start to end their runs and people start looking for more independent productions, look no further then collageN. A thoroughly great performance, it is truly different than the mainstream. And different it […]
Fleabag | The Blue Room | til Feb 24th | ★ ★ ★ ½ I must admit that FLEABAG is the first time that I’ve seen guinea pigs and porn appear in a play together. Both equally important themes to the plot of the show, the question of how a play based around an overly-sexual owner […]
Almost Lesbians | Perth Town Hall | ★ ★ ★ ★ It was freezing cold as we were lead into the venue. The Supper Room, so named for it’s corridor like shape in which you could maybe fit one admittedly very long dinner table, wasn’t what I’d call an ideal venue. I’m still not convinced that anything […]
Christopher Dragon is no stranger to the orchestra. Having spent much of the past few years in Colorado, Perth-born Dragon is back visiting, to conduct WASO’s Favourites series in February, and A Symphonic Tribute to Comic-Con in April. OUTInPerth spoke to him recently, shortly after he had come back to Perth from Colorado USA, where […]
Showgirl Interrupted | Ibis Palace | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ When asked the question of ‘How many microphones can you fit on your person?’, Carletta The Great answers, ‘One more if you’re willing to strip that far’. It’s one part psychedelic photo manipulation, one part ear-splitting audio, and another 10 parts of amazing performance on the […]
Tres Masc? | Connections Nightclub | til Feb 12th | ★ ★ ★ ½ I wish my gym was as fabulous as the one that Cougar Morrison constructs on the Connections stage. Tres Masc is a drag show which set out to examine masculinity and sexuality, and whilst the view provided is a fairly limited one at […]
Perth Festival is almost here, and as artists, musicians and performers flock to Perth, newcomers on the block are ready to stun. One anticipated performance at Chevron Gardens is the electrifying Electric Fields, a collaboration between vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and producer Michael Ross, who together produce music self-described as combining modern electric-soul music with ancient […]
