
As many expected, it’s a far cry from both L. Frank Baum’s novel and its subsequent 1939 adaptation. Less expected, it’s still got a strong, identifiable (and surprisingly complex) narrative.

It’s a great, daring concept for a work. Sadly, Circa don’t fully deliver on that conceptual potential.

If you've ever been to a convention, conference, congress, colloquium, seminar, tutorial, brainstorm, workshop or breakout session, you'll have something to laugh at, somewhere between the mission and vision statements.

Aurelian is a compendium of fantastic showcases of skill, blindingly affecting moments of catharsis and colossal dollops of ambition – but it’s not quite a finished work

Vincent Hooper is back home in Perth doing a cabaret show he's put together called Stolen Treasures, which bills itself as a foray through forgotten musical theatre and cabaret songs.

Friday is, essentially, a political satire and the timing could hardly be riper. When we enter the fray and melee, we gather there's been a (yawn!) sex scandal, spicily consummated on the Premier's desk.

One of the early romantic ballets, there can be no happy ending for the lovers, whose doomed romance is beautifully portrayed by the entire cast.