Last weekend I spent a quite a bit of time at the Perth Writers Festival. I got to host a couple of children’s/young adult sessions which are my faves because a) the books are short and I can read them quickly – especially the picture books and b) I love teenage fiction. This year I [...]
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I went to see Nostalgia. A Japanese production which opened last night along with the Perth International Arts Festival. It was in a space created within the Perth Convention Centre and it is an excellent production. It is not the easiest of theatre experiences. It is all in Japanese – apart from the titles to [...]
I’m always keen to see at least one original commission for the Perth International Arts Festival, and this year’s re-imagining of Tim Winton’s collection of short stories – The Turning – did not disappoint. I’m not a huge Tim Winton fan it must be said. Cloudstreet was okay, The Riders woeful IMHO – I just [...]
This little book by Anna Fienberg is charming. Aimed at 6-10 year olds I guess it has illustrations by the same guy that drew for the Tashi books – Kim Gamble. The book is set in a village which is raided each year by pirates. They take boys aged 12 who endure two years of [...]
If you’re in Perth and can get tickets for Meow Meow… do: International singing sensation, sequinned sex bomb and masterful comedienne Meow Meow has prowled, preened and stunned from Paris to Berlin and Vegas to New York. Blazing her way through a beguiling blend of 30s Shanghai show tunes, 60s French pop and Brechtian drama, [...]
Tonight was the Opening Night of the Perth International Arts Festival’s contemporary music program, this year at Beck’s Music Box on the Esplanade. The venue was great. Bigger than last year’s Verandah at the Perth Concert Hall – or at least it felt bigger. I did like the intimate atmosphere of the Verandah, but sitting [...]
If you can beg borrow or steal tickets to Keating! on at the Octagon as part of the Perth International Arts Festival – go and see it. Clever, outrageously pro-Keating, hilarious, naughty – the singing is fantastic, the music varied, the atmosphere great. I loved it. Here’s what they say: Share in the heady rise, [...]
I took A to see Wild Cursive last night – the world-renowned dance company Cloudgate from Taiwan. I have to admit to not enjoying it. There, I’ve said it. I know, I know it is high art and very good but it was too avant garde for me. Give me a pretty costume or at [...]
We went to see the Tiger Lillies on Monday night at The Verandah. It was truly “out there”. Groover was expecting three scantily clad women (I had wondered why he was so keen to go…) I didn’t really know what to expect. We met up with Mr Smartrider and his lovely wife Miss Lithuania and [...]
