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AFTER their first two launch gigs were Covid-cancelled a new brass ensemble are hoping it’ll be third time lucky for their big debut on December 5. Bulwer Street Brass member Rob Coleman says the project started when local classical and jazz musicians got together with the aim of performing the music they love but that…
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THE 1980s cult classic The NeverEnding Story is the perfect ‘MacGuffin’ for a new play about teenage dreams and friendship. Written by Sally Davies, I Met Christine James-Scott in the Shopping Centre Carpark follows a group of teens at the fag-end of their adolescence in 1988. They have no real sense of direction and are…
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DAME Judi Dench is just one of the famous people around the world who have commissioned South Freo’s Sara Drake to create a unique and stunning 3D map. Super bright and colourful, her creations are like some technicolour universe halfway between a 1960s kids TV show and a Wes Anderson film, with sculpting, painting, cartography,…
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MACE FRANCIS went proper old school for his latest jazz album with his big band recorded live in one room. There was no laying down one instrument at a time and endless fiddling with Pro Tools for Isolation Emancipation, so the record has a lovely ambience and spontaneity. “It was important to me that the…
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AN Aussie exorcist and the gritty streets of Melbourne star in two high quality Australian-made films at The Backlot Perth. Independently produced by first-time feature filmmaker Catherine Hill, the micro-budget drama Some Happy Day is about homeless woman Tina (Peta Brady) who is desperately searching for a better life, but her social worker Frances (Mary…
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AMY Perejuan-Capone was just three years old when dad took her on a motorised hang glider flight, sparking a fascination with aviation that culminated in the exhibition Sky Cave. A love of flying runs deep in the family – Amy’s maternal grandfather was a leading aircraft pilot for the RAAF during WW II, serving in…
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A FIRE breathing drag queen, flamenco and waacking feature in the breathless and highly entertaining dance-meets-cabaret show The Underground. Set in an underground Latin dance club, we follow the upheaval as a bunch of new performers join the stage show, causing rifts, affairs and all manner of steamy melodrama. The ‘telenovela’ narrative – based on the overwroughtsoap…
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THE STRANGE times we are living in are about to get even stranger when A World of Dark Comedy comes to town on November 4. Now in its fourth year, the Perth film festival screens comedy shorts from around the world that feature gallows humour and dark, uneasy laughs. Festival director Greg Coffey says this year’s…
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BLACK SWAN has done a great job re-imagining Animal Farm for the Trump era, though I came away feeling his lightweight authoritarianism was entertaining, but not really a worthy contender for the orchestrated tyranny of Stalin so chillingly captured by Orwell. After all, Trump’s purges were little more than an abusive tweet and “DCM”, while…
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LOCAL talent mixes with global greats at this year’s Perth International Jazz Festival, with foreign acts phoning it in remotely since the pandemic’s still harshing travel plans. Dutch trio Tin Men can’t make it here physically, but on Yagan Square and Northbridge Piazza screens they’ll beam in via live stream from Amsterdam, performing their ‘Global…
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