Fringe World Review: Silhouette
Each beautiful performance is unique and immersive, but together they transport you from Perth to Paris, giving the truly sexy, ‘sensory burlesque experience’ that Fringe has never seen before. Personally,…
Fringe World Review: The Eulogy
Its Australian debut, 'The Eulogy' is a sombre affair, not because we mourn the death of Thomas, but because we mourn the loss of an hour that might only have…
Rejected Fringe World Acts
The screening process for quality Fringe World acts is less than rigorous. However, there were yet a handful of 2016 shows judged unsuitable by the Fringe World board of governors.…
Fringe World Review: Purgatorio
Superficially, this play is about a lover scorned; about murder, and suicide, and irrational behaviours. These are explored after the fact – or, more specifically, after life itself.
Interview: Words with Jamie Mykaela
Pelican speaks with Fringe Performer, Ukulele Sovereign and Comedian Jamie Mykaela about her upcoming debut show and the series of mysterious deaths that befell her late husbands. So I’m not…
Interview: Beth Commons from pool boy
there's been so many occasions where i've been approached after a show and told that my stage presence is too 'domineering' or 'intimidating' because i stand still with my hands…
Preservation of the Soul through Pop, Personality and Punk
Where everything about Blackstar radiates a sense of maturity and mortality – from the disturbing bedridden music video for the album’s second single ‘Lazarus’ to the foreboding, anti-pop instrumentals –…
Review: Loaded
Rather than feeling like the work of young writers auditioning for space on the main stage, the works swelled with daring, collective artistry and creativity, striving to engender the most…
The POTUS Looks Back, Forward, Greyer in 2016 State of the Union Address
People often – and rightly, because democracy – criticize the POTUS (President of the United States), but I think most would agree it’s one of the hardest jobs in the…
“Lamb With Us, or Leave Us”: MLA’s Latest Australia Day Ad Message
In other words, the ad demonstrates an extremely helicopterist method of bringing back into the fold the country’s lost sheep, just so they can eat some baby sheep under a…