Whale Fall | PICA | til Feb 27 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Whale Fall is a play looking at transitions, specifically at the transition of a young child into their gender-affirming being and body. Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop: explores, family, disruption, connection to the land […]
Hold Close | State Theatre Centre of WA | Season Ended | ★ ★ ★ ★ Inspired by Ingrid Tan’s 2009 digital artwork and graphic comic novel which became an online viral sensation of the same name; Hold Close. Hold Close is otherworldly, a space filled with forest creatures, where elves and fairies delight. Be part of […]
Tale of Tales | State Theatre Centre of WA | til Jan 19 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Family stories, family secrets, historical facts, and century-old Italian traditions of storytelling and fairy tales, are woven together into a contemporary narrative within Tale of Tales. Cinematic use of shadow puppetry and projections brings together vignettes of fairy […]
Adulting | De Parel Speigeltent | til Feb 2nd | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Adulting is storytelling through song, comedy and a hint of impromptu audience participation. Tash York has a beautiful singing voice and intriguing comical adult stories to tell throughout Adulting; a comedy cabaret. Deeply personal experiences are revealed, recounted and […]
Tom Ballard: Work In Progress (Problematic) | Noodle Palace Laksa Lounge Until Feb 5 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Problematic is comedy in construction; “it’s a bit sh*t”. Problematic is work in progress, a testing of new material; something many acts will do before a final work is toured. Expect to be taken into […]
EastEnd Cabaret: Sexual Tension | Circus Theatre | Until Jan 30 | ★ ★ ★ ★ Sexual Tension is a femme fatale mashup cabaret, styled circa 1930’s pre-WWII from the Weimar Republic where the only man or man beast is being a slave or object, and a dead pizza delivery boy is bringing your sexual fantasy to a circus […]
Hundreds of people gathered in Perth’s Murray Street Mall for a rally calling for marriage equality yesterday. While meetings like this one over the last year have had a focus on the government’s plan for a plebiscite, now that that policy appears dead in the water, the speakers returned to calling for the issue to […]
