The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights Archives

Reviews

Stories fill the senses and the heart

26 January 2023

Moving in more than one sense, The Lifetime of Deaf and Deafblind fills The Blue Room Theatre studio with story and choreography.

Zendra Giraudo of WHITESNAKE3000, image by Sophie Minissale - 5 An image from WHITESNAKE3000 - Zendra Giraudo sits with her legs at two right angles, one arm framing her head and the other extended. She is clothed in white t-shirt, loose pants and sneakers. A cathartic reckoning with colonial grief

Reviews

A cathartic reckoning with colonial grief

23 January 2023

WHITESNAKE3000 is a brave and complex new dance theatre work to heal the fractures of mixed race experiences, writes Patrick Gunasekera.

Features

Summer showtime: Act two just for you

19 January 2023

Still wondering what to see this month? Step right up for the second act as Seesaw Mag’s editors peruse an artistic menu for entertaining morsels to please all palates.

The Festival Sessions

Saddle up! Clara Cupcakes is back in town

17 January 2023

Fusing cabaret, clowning, burlesque and circus, Clara Cupcakes promises to make the West a little wilder when she gallops into Northbridge for festival season.

Photo: supplied A snapshot from the show Salome δ. Pictured is a performer wearing a long brocade robe stands, arms outstretched. To his left a dancer is folded in half, mid motion. The stage is dark, lit with blue and a shaft of pink. Finding poetry in the chaos of illness

Reviews

Finding poetry in the chaos of illness

30 January 2022

Delving and dancing into chronic sickness, Salome δ is a wild and multi-layered ride but the landing is surprisingly gentle, finds Nina Levy.

Photo Daniel Grant Joe Lui squats in the front corner of the photo, with a guitar. He is wearing a cowboy hat and outfit in red and black. In the background is Phoebe Sullivan, who wears tight, sensual red and black garments and poses seductively. Digging into desire

Opinion

Digging into desire

20 January 2022

In their new burlesque-cabaret work, local theatre makers Joe Lui and Phoebe Sullivan dive into desire, to strip away some ugly truths. But what prompted them to lay these issues bare?

The Festival Sessions

Punk rock musical rewrites old scripts

18 January 2022

If you’ve ever wondered what the coming-of-age musical Spring Awakening would be like if it were queer, Michele Gould’s 107 is the musical for you.

Maniya Amin Dehghan, Harry Hamzat, Satchen Lucido and Happyness Yasini. Presented by Perth Festival and co-produced by Performing Lines WA and Encounter. Four young people of colour stand on stage. At the front one young woman points hopefully at something out of shot. The set is the deck of a boat. Cream of the crop 2021

Features

Cream of the crop 2021

15 December 2021

Which shows were Seesaw Mag’s favourites this year? We ask our writers to reflect on the year that was… and the year that will be.

Promotional image for Your Arts Playground. The words

Podcasts

Your Arts Playground: Festival edition

30 November 2021

It’s a bumper show this month as we dive into the summer festival season!

The Festival Sessions

The phenomenon of pornography

4 February 2020

Charlotte Otton and Andrew Sutherland are both known for making smart and subversive theatre. They’ve joined forces in 30 Day Free Trial, to explore pornography and performance.

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Seesaw Magazine acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
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