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  • Home is where the drama is
    What to SEE

    Home is where the drama is

    17 May 2023

    Andrew Bovell’s play Things I Know To Be True opens in Perth just before filming commences for the play’s television adaptation, starring Nicole Kidman. Ahead of both events, Bovell talked to Ara Jansen about home and family drama.

    Reading time • 10 minutesTheatre
  • Drummers and dancers respond to each other on stage in Manifesto. Drummers on risers and dancers sitting on chairs and dancing below in performance of Manifesto Drummers and dancers respond to each other on stage in Manifesto. Powerful primal beat of optimism
    Reviews

    Powerful primal beat of optimism

    9 February 2023

    Stephanie Lake Company’s exploration of the relationship between rhythm and human movement in Manifesto is intoxicating and invigorating, says Nina Levy. She just wishes she could have been closer to the action.

    Reading time • 6 minutesContemporary dance
  • Photos by Anthony Tran The performers are grouped on stage, wearing rainbow-coloured clothing, and shouting at the camera. Love and kisses from Menagerie
    The Festival Sessions

    Love and kisses from Menagerie

    24 January 2023

    From love’s young dream to the pain of breaking up, this Perth-based indie pop choir invites you to a show that’s about more than happy endings.

    Reading time • 10 minutesMusic
  • An elegant woman with strawberry-blonde hair stands, all dressed in white, with a hand on one hip, long black scarf fanning out behind her as if blown by wind. It is Hayley McElhinney in Oil. What to SEE: Oil
    Q&A

    What to SEE: Oil

    1 November 2022

    What is our most precious resource? And what will we do to keep hold of it? In Black Swan State Theatre Company’s production of Ella Hickson’s acclaimed play Oil, mother and daughter wrestle with big questions — and each other — as they time travel from 19th century Cornwall through Tehran and Baghdad and into an uncertain future. 

    Reading time • 6 minutesTheatre
  • A white set lit by blue light. A boys face is illuminated in the top left corner and two performers in white stand mid stage holding objects Kids’ theatre tackles the big questions
    Kids

    Kids’ theatre tackles the big questions

    28 September 2022

    Creation Creation isn’t ordinary theatre, says junior reviewer Pippa Turnbull. But if you have an open mind and curiosity then this is the show for you.

    Reading time • 4 minutesTheatre
  • A dancer swings, back arched in a pendulum movement, high above six other dancers reaching up towards her in Douglas Wright's Gloria. Bodies meet Baroque in blaze of glory
    Reviews

    Bodies meet Baroque in blaze of glory

    15 September 2022

    Thirty years after its celebrated debut, Douglas Wright’s Gloria lights up the stage once more, this time with a very special addition. The result, writes Nina Levy, is simply glorious. 

    Reading time • 7 minutesDance
  • Two men in blue t-shirts and jeans. One is wearing big round glasses and the other has a tall cone hat which is blue with gold stars Potter wizardry casts chaotic spell
    Kids

    Potter wizardry casts chaotic spell

    21 April 2022

    Potted Potter is a completely silly attempt to condense the Harry Potter series into a 70-minute show, and junior reviewer Bethany Stopher is totally on board the Hogwarts Express for the hilarious ride.

    Reading time • 4 minutesTheatre
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