It is very fitting that Famous Seamus and Seantastic, the Lords of Strut, should address their West Australian audience as the “people of Pert”. Fighting daddy and mummy issues armed with just a g-string and a few gold lamé bomber jackets, these Irish brothers are all about pushing the boundaries of taste and vulgarity with […]
Continue ReadingMagic Matt Fully Loaded
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 […]
Continue ReadingEx-German
Paco Erhard might one day have a son. Trouble is, he’s not yet totally prepared. Though well travelled, he’s a raconteur more likely to regale you with tales of cheeky Moroccan hotel receptionists running imaginary prostitution rings than extol the virtues of the Saharan sublime. Though a bleeding-heart liberal to the core, he can’t bring […]
Continue ReadingJazz Juncture
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 […]
Continue ReadingKaput
“Kaput”, a kid in the audience whispers to his little brother, “means broken.” In this one-man slapstick circus, everything breaks down, except for its’ star. Pulling through every conceivable (planned) mishap, Tom Flanagan is wildly endearing, never giving up, and increasingly imaginative as everything falls apart. A former circus man, Flanagan is described as an […]
Continue ReadingOdette Mercy’s Heartbreak Dance
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 […]
Continue ReadingPity
While Western Society’s approaches of sexuality seem exceedingly liberal in juxtaposition with 17th Century attitudes, incest remains taboo. Pity, Ellandar Productions’ re-working of English playwright John Ford’s Pity She’s a Whore, sets the action in a secular world where reason and morality are guided by modern psychology, philosophy and science. Opening last Thursday in Fringe […]
Continue ReadingThe Standover Man
Ensuring you are respected is essential to keeping your position as a redoubtable and feared crime boss. Accordingly, it can be considered necessary for promise-breakers to be reminded of their obligations, traditionally with something of theirs broken in turn. It is for circumstances such as these that standover men exist. Pope, the titular standover man […]
Continue ReadingColin Ebsworth: Western Devil
Western Devil is a show with earnest good intentions, but is served alongside an unfortunate superiority complex. A little like our colonising forefathers, Colin Ebsworth’s ideas have a tendency to come across as aggressive. Less like our colonising forefathers, he has the potential to develop into a popular Australian comedian. He inspects Western culture through […]
Continue ReadingBows Don’t Go
An assortment of life experiences and music styles tied together at the world premiere of Bows Don't Go on Friday February 1.
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