
Innovative in concept and slick in execution, Mr Naismith’s Secret is an experience unlike any other.

From the acclaimed and recently departed Irish playwright Brian Friel comes this engrossing play starring three of our stage’s finest actors.

Stephen Carleton’s play carries a colourful name, The Turquoise Elephant, but it is the darkest of comedies, coal black, a fatalistic farce about embracing and claiming catastrophic climate change as a grotesque status symbol.

Beethoven, Beer, Bratwurst … and Bjork! continues to be a hit, and for good reason. Part of its genius is the juxtaposition between “high” and “low” culture it enacts when it takes the granddaddy of classical music and places him in a shed in Freo.

While the story is genuinely enjoyable with it’s heart-warming, what’s-not-to-love message of finding your niche, and displaying tolerance for those different to yourself, this production is rather uneven in its execution.

Performed by an ensemble of Notre Dame University’s theatre students, and Directed by Paige Newmark, Perspectives is an original production devised collectively by the ensemble.

Like much of Fassbinder’s writing, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is anchored in artifice, stylization and realism, a theatrical cocktail that needs to be carefully concocted for the mix to work.