Review: The Riders (West Australian Opera)
Nicholas Monisse reviews WA Opera's stage adaptation of Tim Winton's 'The Riders', and finds it magnificent.
Review: Revealed
"As I read the background for each artist, I learnt of their lives, and the communities and country they were connected to. Some had discovered their art early in life,…
Betty Blurst: Cracking Campaign #ChickenTweet
Local WA fast food outlet Chicken Treat last October launched the enormously successful #chickentweet campaign, which put layer hen Betty to the task of tapping out a five-letter English-language word…
Review: The Little Prince
Upon arriving at the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, I stood wide-eyed in the foyer, throwing nervous glances at the large, lifeless figurines staring down from above me. I took my…
It’s About ‘Story’
Blizzard is slightly reducing the sexual-objectification of its female characters, even if their official reasons for doing so are weak. The benefit being that the euphemism of characterisation is easier…
Review: Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories
Following the company's superb adaptations of 'The Rabbits' and 'The Red Tree', Barking Gecko brings another children's story to the stage with 'Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories'. Gabriella Loo sheds…
Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Black Swan State Theatre Company)
Fresh off a Melbourne stage, the production opened at the Malthouse Theatre in March before venturing here. At 90 minutes (no interval), the ambiguous ending to this thriller will have…
Pelican Talks with PROSH
Pelican caught up with the PROSH team before the 85th launch of the satirical mag this Wednesday at 4:20am, talking history, change, memes and Ibis. We can't say we understand…
Review: Pindorama
"The show is one of the strangest dance pieces I have ever seen, but one I haven’t stopped talking about since. It’s intriguing, uncomfortable and certainly different from traditional notions…
A Lurch to the Right? The Polish Question
Poland's late political changes exhibit an uneasy mix of traditional authoritarianism and western capitalism, "typical of former Eastern bloc nations still struggling to come to terms with their past." Bradley…