With a program even heavier than last year’s behemoth, this summer’s Fringe World Festival has clearly got the memo from punters who still can’t get enough of the world’s newly crowned third-biggest Fringe. And really, can you blame us? Counting down ’til our city’s balmy summer evenings are chockers with culture in three, two, one… Best […]
By Sam Hartley His Majesty’s Theater provided the most complementary of locations for Mark Morris’s superbly choreographed Mozart Dances last night. Performed by the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) and underpinned by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, you feel like you’re being drawn back to the 18th century Classical period, as if Mozart himself were […]
This year’s Fringe World program is intimidatingly thick, and the lists of stellar events contained within frustratingly incompatible with both my bank balance and my sleep schedule. If you’re feeling the same way, don’t despair – I’ve pored through the program to give you a starting point for shows to see. Cabaret A sassy mix […]
In the mood for a Caribbean holiday, but not a long-haul flight? Crown’s Colours of Cuba has got you covered. My partner and I were certainly sold on Wednesday night. The Caribbean love affair kicked off with a sampling of the colours and flavours of Cuba at The Atrium. Lime, garlic and cumin dominated the flavour fiesta. Think suckling […]
Liana Joy Christensen is speaking to me from Lala Land. No – that’s not a comment on the stereotype of the spacey, eccentric poet – it’s what she calls her studio. “I have weird names for things,” she explains, in a charmingly matter-of-fact way that is at odds with the way I’d assumed a poet […]
There are some things that are uniquely West Australian. Indian Ocean sunsets. Derby fever. Throwing out your fruit as you exit the airport. Paying $12 for a pint. That dry heat. Celebrate it all this weekend at the State of the Art Festival – a day-long festival celebrating WA music, hosted by Celebrate WA as […]
Gazpacho, paella, dulche de leche, Penelope Cruz – you’d be forgiven for not knowing too much more about Spain than that. But there won’t be any excuses after the Spanish Film Festival comes to town – with its quirky mix of engaging and thought-provoking films, you’ll soon be telling your jabugo from your jamon. […]
There’s something about jazz that immediately puts me on the back foot. I don’t know about you, but at the first mention of scatting, or swing, or bent notes, I’m nervous. I feel unintelligent; uninformed – a kid in the wrong classroom in the great big adult world of sophisticated jazz. Charlie McCarthy, from local […]
I’ve never been one to dream about running away with the circus. Bicycling bears, human cannonballs and hairy ladies aren’t my thing. But on Friday night, I changed my mind. I badly want to run off with NoFit State Circus, in town to perform Bianco as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. Founded in […]
Today I bought my first classical music album. It was inevitable, I suppose. My slide down the slippery slope (read: adulthood) began years ago with a preference for fibre at breakfast, followed closely by AM radio (what a woman, that Fran Kelly) and automatic transmission. But classical music had never tempted me. Never, that is, […]
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