rebirth | Blue Room Theatre | ★ ★ ★ Presented by APK Productions and Drug Aware (Healthway), rebirth is a fresh spin on telling difficult historical moments from debut playwright, Tinashe Jakwa. The production held pockets of brevity with situational humour, carried by the cast during evocative and empowered performances. Their authentic energies shining through […]
Pull The Pin | The Blue Room | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ While I know very little about sport at all, I do love a good sports team narrative. The Wolves presented at The Blue Room by Red Ryder Productions back in 2019? Loved it. Bend It Like Beckham? Yes, also obviously should have been a lesbian […]
A new collaboration between Just Friends Theatre Company and The Blue Room Theatre promises a hilarious fusion between goofy comedy Dodgeball and your mum’s book club. In Pull The Pin: ten-pin bowling squad The Old Hags are gearing up for the Mid-Year Tenpin Bowling Championship and the ladies have something to prove. There’s a lot on the line: cash, […]
Silence My Lady Head | The Blue Room Theatre | til 16th Feb | ★ ★ ★ FUGUE is a Perth based theatre making collective with a history of creating innovative and physically demanding works including last years much lauded Court My Crotch. They’ve come together with Melbourne based artists Indigo Keane and Nicole Harvey to […]
Local queer theatre favourites FUGUE have teamed up with Melbourne artists Indigo Keane and Nicole Harvey for a ‘disco nightclub exorcism’ at this year’s Fringe World Festival. The one-woman show is inspired by the women of the 80s – particularly the legendary Grace Jones and her infallible brand of club performance – re-arranging theatre, drag […]
Will Greenway: the way the city ate the stars | The Blue Room | til Feb 3 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Wil Greenway’s the way the city ate the stars is a tour de force of poetic storytelling and snappy humour, all wrapped up in a loveable lullaby of larrikinism. Quite honestly, this is such a profoundly […]
Shane Adamczak is back in Perth after having recently come off his Canadian Fringe tour with his show The Ballad of Frank Allen which won the Just Laugh comedy award. This time he brings up STASIS; his sci-fi vision and the first original solo show Adamczak has performed in 7 years. I sat down with […]
Laika: A Staged Radio Play | The Blue Room Theatre | til Sept 30 | ★ ★ ★ ★ Laika: A Staged Radio Play produced by Second Chance Theatre Company explores a group of plucky wedding guests who come across an abandoned radio station and an old radio play about cosmonauts from a Russian […]
Hypatia | The Blue Room Theatre | Til Oct 7 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ “My name is Hypatia, and I’m going to die.” That’s not a spoiler, friends. Those who know their history well may have heard of Hypatia of Alexandria. Scholar, astronomer, mathematician, teacher and leader of the Neoplatonic School in Roman-occupied Alexandria in […]
Arteries By Ancestry | The Blue Room Until Sept 2 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Entering The Blue Room Theatre this week, I knew little of what to expect from James McMillan’s latest work. Having interviewed the show’s creator, I knew it would explore notions of hypermasculinity and queer relationships through theatre and dance – but […]
