DIRECTOR Frances O’Connor knew she had created a moving film about Emily Brontë when The Brontë Society were moved to tears during a private screening in England. “They all absolutely loved it and thought it really captured the essence of Emily,” O’Connor says. The former Mercedes College girl has come a long way since her…

FORGET about Love Actually, the Shakespeare “banger” Twelfth Night is the perfect rom-com to enjoy with your partner under the stars during the festive period. A mix of comedy and lust that appeals to a younger audience, the play has been adapted for the big screen numerous times, so it was no surprise that Fremantle…

THERE’S a touch of Indiana Jones to the tracking down of a Stolen Generation artwork that for seven decades had criss-crossed the globe from rural WA to London and back. Earlier this year, Curtin University launched an international campaign to find hundreds of ‘lost’ artworks created by the Stolen Generations at WA’s Carrolup Native Settlement.…

AFTER the death of his Thai mother in 2019, Perth artist Nathan Beard re-evaluated his Australian-Thai heritage and looked at how the West had perceived “Thainess” over the years. Using personal items belonging to his mum, film, installation and photography he began to piece together works for his exhibition A Puzzlement, which fuses the Western…

BORDER control must be struggling to find a space to stamp Aliya Kanani’s passport. That’s because the Canadian stand-up has lived in 30 countries, went to 10 different schools and can speak six languages. Growing up the daughter of Indian parents in Canada, she was constantly on the move, shuttling between cities with her family,…

EVERYTHING from Christmas Island to a moody shot of the Gage Roads Brewery in Fremantle is in this year’s Perth Amateur Photographers Photo Exhibition. Featuring 50 WA photographers from all walks of life, the exhibition has 150 stunning photos of buildings, people and landscapes across Australia. Despite sophsticated camera phones and a resurgence in the…

Will cybernetic plants rampage about the CBD and swallow humans like some disturbing version of the Venus flytrap this month?  Maybe if you watched Terminator 2 too many times and believe that AI machines can become self-aware and destroy humankind.  The Voice can guarantee that the 128 ‘Floribots’ installed in Hay Street Mall will react…

WTH the supply and cost of energy becoming a political pawn in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the play Oil has never been so relevant and topical. First released in London in 2016 where it wowed audiences and critics, the epic and ambitious play spans 160 years and examines the fall and rise of a…

STIRLING resident and WAAPA graduate Thomas McCracken is back on stage, this time in Melville Theatre’s production Things I Know to be True. Written by Andrew Bovell, the play is set in suburban Adelaide and follows the Price family over the course of a year. McCracken stars as Mark, whose parents Fran (Natalie Burbage) and…

 THEY never enjoyed the global success of other English bands like Oasis, Blur and The Stone Roses in the 1990s, but The Charlatans had some killer tunes and hardcore indie and shoegaze fans regard them as being highly influential. So when it was announced they were playing the Rosemount Hotel on their 30th anniversary tour,…