Perth Reviews

Details: Hayley Mayne; 17 November 2017

Let the Right One In | Black Swan State Theatre Company

What if your life was so bleak that you found light where only others found darkness? What if the passage into adulthood and your first experience of love was driven not by joy and romance, but by a desperate need for acceptance and protection?

Details: Claire Condry; 20 October 2017

Once We Lived Here | Western Sky Theatre

How refreshing to see a new Australian musical and also to be able to acknowledge its success on so many levels. This is a really strong production and its presentation was terrific.

Details: Claire Condry; 09 October 2017

The audience gasped as Chiciquita and Fernando mounted the stage. He resplendent in white flares and a silvery sequined top, she in a “barely there” red hot sequinned number, both platinum bewigged.

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Details: Sarah Green; 15 September 2017

Flappers dressed in pearls, diamonds and feathers swanned their way around His Majesty’s Theatre for the opening night of WA Ballet’s The Great Gatsby, which transported the audience to Long Island, New York in the roaring twenties.

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Dance

Details: Sarah Green; 08 September 2017

Fast-paced and intense, The Zone is an hour of dance power, bursting at the seams with 11 whirling, twirling, writhing, twisting dancers.

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Dance

Details: Sarah Green; 05 August 2017

1984

Blame a fear of political correctness, fake news or Donald Trump, but dystopian fiction is having a moment and George Orwell’s almost-70-year-old classic is riding the wave, leaping to the top of the US Amazon bestseller list at the start of the year.