Ribald, irreverent, occasionally farcical, periodically scatological, but always varied – such a description could apply as easily to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as to a Fringe World show. A thought of this sort clearly occurred to a member of the KNUTS theatre company, which is staging two productions based on Chaucer’s Tales. Directed by […]

It’s not your ordinary pub fight. Ex-serviceman Ray (Samuel Edward-Cook) explodes onto the scene, against the will of the pub’s occupants. The owner of the pub, Simon (Adam Foster) refuses to reciprocate his banter. There is an awkward tension from the get-go, of which Kristin Atherton’s character Leanne is hopelessly unaware. Whilst Chloe Massey’s Carla […]

From the moment Magic Matt and his assistant Chris hit the Noodle Palace stage fully loaded; that in magicians speak means having all the necessary equipment for a night of tricks in your pockets, it was clear the night ahead would be a good one. Quickly forgetting about the fact we were sitting in a […]

Though St Jerome’s Laneway Festival may have overrun the Perth Cultural Centre that day, in one tent atop a Northbridge car park, the night belonged to jazz. Jazz Juncture is the debut of Siahne Rogers as a writer and director, though she is no stranger to the Fringe scene, regularly appearing in burlesque acts under […]

Given that I spent much of my first heartbreak as a human puddle, watching YouTube piano covers of Green Grass of Tunnel from under my doona, I wasn’t convinced that I was grown up enough for the bluesy, gutsy heartbreak theatrics offered by local artist Ofa Benness. Yet, as Benness reminds the audience in her […]