When the nominations of the 2018 Helpmann Awards were read out hosts asked the assembled crowd of theatre industry members and media to hold their applause and reactions to the end of each round of nominees. When it came time to see which productions from the last year had been nominated for Best Play in […]
Tags: Adriane Daff, Helpmann Awards, The Last Great Hunt, zoe pepper
11 Jul 2018 /
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Hir | State Theatre Centre | Until 27 May | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This 21st century story of a family tackling issues of toxic masculinity, gender fluidity, independence, domestic violence and roles expectations goes full throttle from start to end. It’s zooms like a bullet train, unstoppable, powerful and driven. Isaac Connor returns from three years […]
Tags: Black Swan State Theatre Company, Hir, Igor Sas, Jack Palit, Taylor Mac, toni scanlan, Will O'Mahony, zoe pepper
15 May 2018 |
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Taylor Mac, who uses judy (lowercase j) as a gender pronoun, left a memorable impression when judy appeared at the Perth Festival back in 2011. Now Perth audiences have another chance to enter the world of the drag legends creative realm as Black Swan State Theatre Company stage judys play Hir. The plays name is […]
Tags: Black Swan State Theatre Company, Jack Palit, Taylor Mac, zoe pepper
9 May 2018 |
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WAAPA trained actor and director Zoe Pepper, together with her actors and co-writers Adriane Daff and Tim Watts has created a “reckless, intoxicating love letter to the subconscious” in The Irresistible. Was there a light bulb moment of inspiration that spurred the creation of this show? It was more of a piecing together of the puzzle […]
Tags: PICA, the irresistable, WAAPA, zoe pepper
16 Jun 2017 |
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