The Summer of our Lives is immensely entertaining and an important milestone in the trajectory of two of WA’s finest theatre artists, says David Zampatti.
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A blonde moment you won’t object to
18 April 2021
Large audiences packed Crown Theatre for the bubbly premiere of an all-local production of Legally Blonde the Musical, says Erin Hutchinson.
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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.
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Music as call for change
5 March 2021
Erin Hutchinson is transported by the loud and the quiet of Black Brass’s maelstrom of music, memory and storytelling.
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Café culture
1 February 2021
The humour and frivolity of Australian Baroque’s Coffee Cantata added up to a Fringe World high point for David Zampatti.
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Choose your own musical
26 January 2021
Live polling directs the story and who does what in Undecided, and Claire Coleman says it’s great fun.
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A sparkling good show
25 January 2021
Ethan Jones nails it as Peter Allen in the all singing, all dancing show, The Boy from Oz, says Rosalind Appleby.
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Lost generation struggles to be heard
21 January 2021
Jonathan W. Marshall suspects there’s good musical theatre potential in a boy wanted to, but says it’s still finding its rhythm.
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Lust, cask wine and Puccini-on-Swan
17 January 2021
Brendan Hanson’s reworking of Puccini in The Cloak and Dagger could be a runaway Fringe hit, according to Rosalind Appleby.
The Festival Sessions
More than a tribute
14 January 2021
There’s no shortage of tribute shows at Fringe World. But emerging writer/performer Sylvia Cornes does more than simply present the songs of Rickie Lee Jones and Françoise Hardy in her two Fringe shows… she also delves into their lives, careers, relationships and artistry.
