Perth Voice Interactive

A SMOKY New York bar sets the scene for a story of impossible love. Or does it?

A man wakes up on his 30th birthday and realises life has lost its shine, he’s stuck in a job he hates and has no love life.

Heading home well soused after an office party, things change: “He sees the moon and decides she is the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen and he must woo her,” actor and playwright St John Cowcher says.

The Man and The Moon is the Highgate local’s first solo show (his partner Libby Klysz is producer) and is part of the Blue Room’s Summer Nights during the fringe festival.

“Romantic jazz and falling in love with the moon is a good fit,” Cowcher tells the Voice.

A three-piece band will join him on stage, performing the atmospheric jazz of Brett Smith, who wrote the music for Black Swan’s Venus in Fur last year.

“It’s storytelling with music,” Cowcher, who collaborated with Smith to write the music, says.

The Man and the Moon runs February 2–6. Tix at fringeworld or the Blue Room.

by JENNY D’ANGER