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  • Four performers lean over their instruments with an image projected on the wall behind of a messy 90s office scene Exploring the periphery of musical narrative
    Reviews

    Exploring the periphery of musical narrative

    12 April 2021

    Audible Edge Festival of Sound is underway and Eduardo Cossio reviews ‘Serf Punk’, a concert that explores representation and meaning – and its absence.

    Reading time • 5 minutesMusic
  • a young man with flowers in his hair and face painting holds a dragon puppet in his hand Where fairies dance and dragons lurk
    Kids

    Where fairies dance and dragons lurk

    12 April 2021

    The Beyond Realms is a new children’s theatre group making magic at the Subiaco Arts Centre Junior reviewers Isabel and Eddy Greentree review their school holiday show.

    Reading time • 5 minutesTheatre
  • A woman with short dark hair holds mallets in her hand as she plays toms and a marimba, behind her is the back of the conductor as he faces the orchestra Heroic women in hefty concert
    Reviews

    Heroic women in hefty concert

    12 April 2021

    Wonder woman Claire Edwardes was the star of the night with a monumental performance with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. And Tiffany Ha says there’s room for plenty more classical music heroines.

    Reading time • 5 minutesMusic
  • A woman in a skirt and black hat and wand sits on a broom stick, next to a puppet dog (being held from behind by a man) and a girl in a striped cat suit. Family fun at the theatre
    Kids

    Family fun at the theatre

    8 April 2021

    Need a school holiday belly laugh? There’s room for everyone in this heart-warming theatrical adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s classic book Room on the Broom, finds Rosalind Appleby.

    Reading time • 4 minutesTheatre
  • Reading time • 7 minutesTheatre
  • A choir and orchestra dressed in black fill a wooden concert hall stage Easter (Oratorio) arrives in Perth
    Reviews

    Easter (Oratorio) arrives in Perth

    1 April 2021

    The St George’s Cathedral Consort expands the musical horizon for West Australians in this Holy Week collaboration with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

    Reading time • 6 minutesMusic
  • A group of brightly dressed performers fill a stage with a backdrop of linen strips hanging from the ceiling like tree trunks Into the Australian woods
    Reviews

    Into the Australian woods

    31 March 2021

    WAAPA’s Australianised Into the Woods is an adventurous adaptation that didn’t quite hit the mark, says Erin Hutchinson.

    Reading time • 5 minutesMusical Theatre
  • It’s Brecht done very well
    Reviews

    It’s Brecht done very well

    28 March 2021

    Graduating WAAPA students handle Brecht’s masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, with fabulous gusto and conviction, David Zampatti writes, and he gives them a resounding “wow!”

    Reading time • 6 minutesTheatre
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