Nanette | Heath Ledger Theatre | 27th-28th Jan | ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s not often that an audience sitting in a half-stunned silence is the mark of a good comedy show. No one coughs. No one even shifts their feet. Most importantly, no one laughs. When I spoke to Hannah Gadsby last week about her comedy […]
Singer Jessie Gordon is extremely busy during Fringe World. Gordon’s enjoyed sold out shows with Stratosfunk’s tribute to Etta James, she’s also received critical acclaim for her performance in ‘Speak Easy’, and has been performing as part of swing band The Darling Buds of May. Yet she still has several more shows in the […]
Christeene is many things. A rapper. A drag performer. A dancer. A weaver of nightmares. One thing Christeene doesn’t have is shame. In fact, this musician and filthmonger has no boundaries of any kind, as evidenced in the raw sexuality of her videos and the daring carnality of her lyrics. We managed to catch Christeene […]
Comedy duo Jekyll and James have returned to Fringe World after a sellout season of their show ‘Paradise’ in 2014. Their new offering, ‘Cactus Blastus’, sees the pair delivering more of their distinctive flavour of bold characters, live music and enthusiastic weirdness into a brand new story set in the wild West. Jekyll and James […]
Cabaret star Yana Alana is returning to Fringe World this year with her one-woman show (with two people), ‘Between the Cracks’. Joined by her long-suffering accompanist Louise Goh, Alana boldly goes where no woman has gone before with song, dance, poetry and tantrums. Since her last turn at Fringe World, Alana has left a trail […]
Scottee is coming to Perth to present his acclaimed show ‘The Worst of Scottee’ at Connections Nightclub. The hit of the Edinburgh Fringe is based around a very intriguing concept. Scottee hired a psychotherapist and a filmmaker to investigate his past. They tracked down all the people he’d done wrong, his ex flames, people who […]
Cabaret spectacular ‘La Soiree’ is making its Perth debut tonight, marking ten years of successful touring around the world. Ahead of this landmark opening performance, OUTinPerth chatted to three of the artists performing in the show’s eclectic line up. Hamish McCann and Denis Lock, acrobatic performers known as The English Gents (pictured above), said that […]
Michael Griffiths’ ‘Sweet Dreams: The Songs of Annie Lennox’ was so popular when it was in town last year, the show was quickly sold out. Luckily for everyone who couldn’t get a ticket, the acclaimed cabaret show is back for Fringe World. OUTinPerth caught up with Michael ahead of his trip to Perth. What was […]
Amongst the many theatrical delights at Fringe World is a show from OUTinPerth’s own Sophie Joske. In between conducting interviews about all the other shows we sat Sophie down and posed a few questions. Tell me about your new show? ‘Become a Functional Adult in Forty-Five Minutes’ is a one-woman show about whether it’s possible […]
Gavin Roach enjoyed a sold out season of his previous Fringe World show ‘Confessions of a Grindr Addict’, this year returns with a brand new show. “My new show ‘I Can’t Say the F Word’ is quite different from ‘Confessions of a Grindr Addict’. It’s not as character based, this one’s more looking at my […]
