Joe Lui Archives

Pictured Merlynn Tong. Photo: Devika Bilimoria A woman is captured mid-cackle. She holds one hand up like a claw, her face is scrunched. Savage story provides enlightenment

Reviews

Savage story provides enlightenment

16 December 2022

The most important human being ever born and the most powerful creature ever to exist hook up. David Zampatti looks on with admiration.

Reviews

A walk on the stranger side

17 July 2022

If you’re a fan of sci-fi/horror, then you’ll recognise some of the tropes in Bobby Russell’s experimental performance work… but you’ll need to tie the threads together yourself, says Nina Levy.

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

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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

Salome remixed in a heady brew

17 January 2022

A biblical story collides with COVID as a team of dancers and theatre makers explore the story of Salome. Find out more from deviser and performer Andrew Sutherland in this Festival Sessions interview.

A woman stands on what looks like a film set. She's dresses in a pink leotard, and black patent combat boots, with a holster around her hips and holding a gun towards a camera, which is being operated by a person who wears jeans and a t-shirt, and a mask. Behind the camera operator is a screen onto which the scene the camera is filming is projected, against a computer generated backdrop that is brightly coloured and cartoon-like. An audacious piece of theatre blasts off from the Blue Room

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An audacious piece of theatre blasts off from the Blue Room

7 July 2021

The intergalactic mayhem of Beginning at the End (of Capitalism) may be hard to navigate but David Zampatti says its worth it for the simple truth that emerges from the tumult.

Natalie Allen performs in Julia. Natalie Allen as Julia Gillard has one finger raised and her mouth open as though she has swung around to retort. She wears a bright red wig and blue suit. A dance work for our times

Reviews

A dance work for our times

23 May 2021

Solo dance work JULIA is a work for our times, a powerful statement of feminist resistance and rage, with a glimmer of hope, writes Nina Levy.

Reviews

From abstract acid house to pointillist landscapes

20 April 2021

Two mixed bill experimental music and sound programs intrigue Jonathan W. Marshall at this year’s Audible Edge festival.

Reviews

Myth and mystery make magic

7 December 2020

Cleverly weaving together two performances delivered in parallel, The Golem: or, Next Year in Jerusalem is obscure yet fascinating, writes David Zampatti.

James McMillan in 'The Jellyman'. Photo: Tashi Hall Bathed in blue jelly-like light, a man cuts into a blue jelly, against a backdrop of blue jelly. Jellyman is just the ticket

Reviews

Jellyman is just the ticket

30 October 2020

Live theatre is back at The Blue Room, with a new play that’s exciting, pertinent and ambitious, reports David Zampatti.

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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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