Western Australia’s arts playground
Western Australia’s arts playground
9 April 2026
Level Up! Written and directed by Yvan Karlsson playfully utilises video game culture as a way to interrogate friendship and humanity in an increasingly digital world. Exploring what happens when virtual spaces are inhabited with the same morals and standards that we value in the “real world”.
25 September 2025
An ambitious new festival in a small Wheatbelt town is rewilding imaginations and reconnecting people to art, land, and each other, Stephen Bevis writes.
30 October 2020
Live theatre is back at The Blue Room, with a new play that’s exciting, pertinent and ambitious, reports David Zampatti.
30 September 2020
Seesaw’s junior reviewers enjoy the shades of sadness in Valentine, feelings echoed by Claire Trolio’s review of the same show at the 2018 AWESOME Festival.
5 November 2019
Review: Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and WAAPA 3rd year performance makers, Life on Earth · Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 2 November · Review by Steven Cohen …
4 October 2018
Awesome Festival review: Rachael Woodward, Valentine · PICA Performance Space, 1 October, 2018 · Review by Claire Trolio · It’s not often that grief and loss …
27 January 2018
Theatre ∙ 14-17 February @ The Dolphin Theatre ∙ Presented by: Yeung Fai ∙ An epic story of three generations of a family and the …
18 December 2017
Review: The Twits – Spare Parts Puppet Theatre ◆ Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 6 December ◆ Review by Varnya Bromilow ◆ Recreating a beloved children’s book …
2 August 2017
In “Twists, turns and music: part I”, AWESOME Arts CEO Jenny Simpson told Nina Levy about her past; a childhood cut short by loss, the music …
Continue reading “Twists, turns and music: Jenny Simpson (Part II)”
12 July 2017
Review: The Arrival – Spare Parts Puppet Theatre – The Dolphin Theatre, University of Western Australia – 5 July – Reviewed by Nina Levy – Based …