Perth Theatre Company has cancelled the remainder of its 2015 program citing financial difficulties. The move means the production of John Steinbeck’s classic ‘Mice and Men’ which was to have starred actor Jai Courtney will be cancelled. Also dropped in the production of ‘Your Seven’ from experiential theatre performer James Berlyn. The company highlighted a […]
Perth Theatre Company have released their launch for the 2015 season. The program begins in March with ‘From the Rubble’, a new work based on the stories of Walkley Award winning journalist Sophie McNeill, which will be playing at PICA from the 16th to the 28th at PICA. From April 30th to May 10th in […]
Actor and improviser Alicia Osyka is about to take on a very unique challenge: she’s starring in a play she knows nothing about. Perth Theatre Company’s ‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit’ is performed by a different actor every night over its two week season, all of whom are forbidden to know anything about the play until […]
Wish, the Humphrey Bower adaptation of Peter Goldsworthy’s novel is an exploration of language and relationships. The two person show is simple and elegant and Bower engages the audience with perfectly worded monologues and exquisite movement from Danielle Micich. The use of physical theatre is stunning and ties in perfectly with the simplicity of the […]
Perth Theatre Company are presenting a return season of the critically acclaimed productions ‘It’s Dark Outside’ and ‘The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer’. The two productions have been touring the world since first being performed in Perth. Most recently the creative team of Arielle Gray, Tim Watts and Chris Isaacs has been at […]
Lachlan Philpott is one of Australia’s hottest playwrights. He has had hits with the play’s ‘Silent Disco’ and ‘Truck Stop’ and earlier this year he debuted another new work ‘M Rock’. Now the Perth Theatre Company is set to perform his latest piece ‘Alienation’. It’s the story of three ordinary Australians who believe they have […]
Khan Chittenden returned to Australian TV screens last night playing the attractive photographer Nick Trumpet in ‘Paper Giants: Magazine Wars’. The ABC mini-series is the sequel to the hugely popular ‘Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo’. This time round the story focuses on the battle between ‘New Idea’ and ‘Woman’s Day’ and their combative editors […]
Perth Theatre Company’s production of Caryl Churchill’s ‘A Number’ is a challenging storytelling experience that is certainly thought provoking. Two men meet, one older and one younger, we learn they are a father and son, they start discussing something, but it takes a little while to work out what the conversation is about. Gradually we […]
Following on from her acclaimed performance in the Perth Theatre Company’s production of Tender Napalm last year, Anna Houston returns to perform alongside Humphrey Bowler in Blackbird, a controversial play by Scottish playwright David Harrower. Blackbird is the story of Ray, a fifty five year old man who is visited at his workplace by twenty […]
