Fringe World Perth 2012

Ancient Greece Meets Political Fiction in Persians

No Comments 18 February 2012

Persians is the world’s oldest surviving play. Written by the Greek poet Aeschylus, it imagines the reactions of the Persian leaders to their army’s destruction at the hands of the Greeks. One of the few Greek tragedies to actually be set in their current day rather than mythic times, it’s essentially Ancient Greek contemporary political […]

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Fringe spin on a classic in All’s Well that Ends Well

No Comments 18 February 2012

All’s Well that Ends Well is a romantic comedy where the couple shouldn’t be together and their eventual reconciliation strikes a somewhat disquieting note. The Fringe World production from local theater company North Sea Boat Terminals is a spirited and ambitious take on one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. The small cast of young Perth actors […]

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Life and laughs under the waves in Eric’s Tales of the Sea

No Comments 18 February 2012

Eric doesn’t look like your average comedian, nor is his show an average comedy show, but there’s a very good reason for that. Eric – first name only – has spent his life onboard Royal Navy nuclear submarines and although he says he hates the way Hollywood portrays submarines, the stories he tells in Eric’s Tales […]

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Good, clean family magic in Simon Coronel’s Manipulations

No Comments 18 February 2012

Short sleeves, cheeky grin and very good hands are how Simon Coronel rolls in his one-man illusionist show, Manipulations. There is no doubt that Coronel is world-class; he has won the Australian Society of Magician’s Annual Competition four years in a row and is only the fourth Australian in history to place at the World […]

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Tales of the lonely and broken in Walk in Dirt

No Comments 16 February 2012

Despite first being performed almost a decade ago, the topics explored in Stephen House’s Walk in Dirt still feel current and perhaps even more relevant today. The show follows an unnamed man as he walks through his rubbish-filled street and into the dark urban underworld, meeting a series of bizarre and fractured characters. It is […]

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Examining the human condition with Campari Kid and Siren of the Squeezebox

No Comments 16 February 2012

Campari Kid and Siren of the Squeezebox created haunting and beautifully expressive music at the Artrage Bakery on Thursday night. Siren of the Squeezebox Cathie Travers virtuosically weaves through Campari Kid !an L!lburne’s poetic examinations of the human condition. She sighs and sings with her accordion while he sings poetry with his Spanish guitar. Further […]

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A festival for the curious and the brave

No Comments 16 February 2012

The Proximity festival is a smorgasbord of performances “tailor-made for an audience of one” at the Blue Room. With such delicacies as beard fondling and strip poker on offer, those used to playing it cool hiding in a crowd and avoiding participation may be challenged. The 12 works about reaction and interaction, reflection and introspection […]

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Deception and perception in A Night of Deceit

No Comments 15 February 2012

Deception makes reality relative to perception. Communications with strangers, those we are close to and even ourselves cannot always be trusted. Deceits reveal themselves in ugly but entertaining ways in Ellandar Productions’ A Night of Deceit, directed by Ellen O’Connor and Iskandar Sharazuddin. Five shorts set in the 1940s are introduced through cabaret and woven […]

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Marcel Lucont tackles the big issues in Encore

No Comments 15 February 2012

Encore is an award-winning show filled with often painfully funny observations on sex, relationships, language, death, wine, erectile dysfunction, Christmas, fake breasts — delivered by a smug French nihilist. Marcel Lucont approaches the microphone to his own French voice-over and poses weightily on one of his bare feet with a sardonic expression, a glass of […]

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Heartbreak and healing at Odette Mercy’s Heartbreak Dance

No Comments 14 February 2012

The heartless, the heartbroken and the heart-breakers came together for a journey into the pain, beauty and essence of love in Fringe World’s Odette Mercy’s Heartbreak Dance. Over the course of the evening, the audience were guided through a diverse range of performances from musicians, poets, storytellers and rappers, all in the name of love. […]

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