
This play is at its heart a work of humanity and pathos, uniting us with those things we are all thinking, but cannot always voice.

“Don’t ever tell me again you can’t write,” said Joan Didion’s husband to her on her birthday; the last birthday, in fact, that they would ever spend together.

It was a rather eclectic programme with generous lashings of in-jokes amongst the who’s who of the Perth theatre scene, on stage and in the audience.

Sometimes, just sometimes, you are fortunate enough to see a theatre show that leaves you changed at the end of it.


There is a surety and deftness to the way in which Cribb marries beautiful lyrical prose with sparse colloquial language, and in The Haunting there are moments of sheer brilliance.

The History of Glass is an intriguing piece of installation art. The idea of it is brilliant, in fact; it’s just the execution that leaves a little to be desired.