Perth Voice Interactive

SHE’S written for more than 2000 TV and radio shows including the BBC’s Have I Got News For You? and now Kate Smurthwaite is bringing her Evolution Revolution show to Perth.

An entertaining science-based game show that uses the audience as “raw materials”, Evolution Revolution is fun, family friendly and educational.

“I studied evolution as part of my Environmental Sciences degree,” Smurthwaite says.

“I loved it. I got quite obsessed with it. It taught me so much about the world around me but it also taught me so much about me.

“That’s the thing about evolution – the proof of it and the wonders of it are right here in all of us. And yet most mutants (that’s all of us by the way) barely understand it at all.

“This gave me an idea. What if I made a games show? A fun family-friendly games show that taught people all about evolution but used the audience themselves as the raw material? So that’s what I’ve done.”

A London-based comedian and activist with a big reputation in the UK, Smurthwaite went back to her roots and taught maths and science online to younger folk when her comedy work dried up during covid.

Now she’s combined her two passions in a lively, innovative game show where the audience are both the questions and the answers – finding out how closely they are related to the great apes, and testing their knowledge of weird and wonderful animals like, err, humans.

And of course there’s stickers, prizes and glory for the winner.

The show received rave notices in the UK – “Hilarious … a powerhouse of observational wit,” noted Spectator magazine.

Part of Perth Fringe World, Evolution Revolution is at the WA State Theatre on 18/19/22/23/24/25 at 12:45pm. Tix at fringeworld.com.au.

If you prefer your entertainment a bit more dark and macabre, then check out Haunted by Kevin Kopfstein.

He’s been collecting bizarre objects connected to the supernatural for years and they all have a fascinating story to tell. With everything from an 1800s vampire hunting kit and voodoo doll to cemetery padlock and a child’s haunted doll, you will hear spooky stories and experience chills, thrills and maybe even the odd visit from the spirit world.

An international festival veteran, Kopfstein has been entertaining audiences across the globe for more than 30 years, and Haunted was a sell out at this year’s Adelaide Fringe.

Part of Fringe World, Haunted is at the The Brass Monkey (downstairs Williams Room) from Friday January 24 to Sunday February 16 (excluding Tuesdays) at 8.45pm. Tix at fringeworld.com.au.