It has become something of a fashion to refer to artists who are not poets as being poets of their respective mediums. Often this is an ill-informed description simply comes from the artist in question producing non-narrative work. Maya Deren is not of this category, she is a mid-twentieth century filmmaker who utilised the medium […]
Continue ReadingAlan Sharp: Careful What You Wish For
After working the comedy circuits hard since 2008, Alan Sharp comes to Perth with his new show Careful What You Wish For. Having performed at a healthy selection of clubs, festivals and competitions around the world, it is anybody’s guess why Sharp’s opening performance at Leederville managed to pull only one or two scattered chuckles […]
Continue ReadingMise En Abyme – A Performance Lecture by Chicks On Speed
Before seeing Mise En Abyme I did a little background research and noticed that Chicks on Speed had performed at top galleries around the world including MoMA, Centre Pompidou and the Thyssen-Bornesmizsa Musuem of Art. After seeing their show, I must say that I am very surprised by this. The performance began with Melissa Logan […]
Continue ReadingReggae in Hell
Here’s your opportunity to discover whether or not you’re conventional. This is not layman’s comedy, Nick Sun warns, and “no boring conventional people need come.” Even if you don’t see reality as already a little distorted, Reggae in Hell will take your hand and show you the way over a scraggy mountain pass of freewheeling […]
Continue ReadingTap Into Health with Movin’ Melvin Brown
There is no muckin’ around with Movin’ Melvin Brown. His workshop, Tap Into Health, starts with a brief tap performance by the man himself and before you can think ‘That looks too hard, I’m leaving’, he has you tapping away, working up a sweat, clickity click. Melvin starts off simple with The Walk and soon […]
Continue ReadingMarcel Lucont – Gallic Symbol
With more inflammatory wit and congested phlegm than Serge Gainsbourg in Lemon Incest, Perth’s favourite chain-smoking philanderer Marcel Lucont returns to Fringe this year. Gallic Symbol is side-splitting snobbery with all the Anglophobic trimmings that we have come to expect of a night with Lucont. The audience is dragged further into the pit of purposeful […]
Continue ReadingThe Kids Comedy Gala
Beneath the big top of the Lunar Circus a number of children gathered around the ring eagerly awaiting the beginning of the Kids Comedy Gala. When the festival director, “Fat Matt” Yates stepped out from behind the curtain they all began cheering loudly, no longer able to contain their excitement. Opening with a juggling act […]
Continue ReadingTracing HUman
As the audience enters the theatre, half are asked to pose for an impromptu portrait. Lauren Holmwood, visual artist and one third of tonight’s cast, is making a note of your presence. All seated, she scatters the sketches like confetti around a hunched, hooded figure (Emma Fishwick). The audience for a moment settle, dividing their […]
Continue ReadingThe Lunar Circus Show
Returning to Perth for the first time in 10 years the Lunar Circus didn’t disappoint when they took to the ring to perform their wonderfully entertaining Lunar Circus Show. Accompanied by a live band the talented troop of acrobats, clowns and aerial performers wowed the all ages’ audience with their performance. From their first act […]
Continue ReadingMangina: Tales of an XY Woman
There’s a chair, a microphone, a few coloured lights and brief snippets of pop songs that pay homage to the glamorised world of drag and Les Girls that we are very far away from in the intimate setting of a bare-bones pop-up tent venue at fringe time in Perth. An appropriate setting, stripped of all […]
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