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THE tension in Marcella Polain’s Driving into the Sun is more palpable than some crime novels, and I found myself hunched over the pages in a cold sweat. The award-winning North Perth author and academic is happy to hear of my unease. “It was the sense I was hoping to create – a sense of…
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TURNER GALLERIES have kicked off the year with three eclectic exhibitions that include everything from Mexican religion to jarring thoughts. If artists were good with words they’d be authors says Perth sculptor Harry Hummerston, demonstrating the point when I phoned him last week. “Trying to explain the work becomes a struggle to replace images with…
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DEATH-DEFYING feats of fire ensure Fuego Carnal is one of the hottest acts at this year’s Fringe World. Husband-and-wife team Sophie and Jacob McGrath have assembled 11 performers from around the world for this scorching show, which combines circus, cabaret and lots of flames. Fuego is Spanish for fire, and while carnal sounds a bit…
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THE devastating effects of climate change are explored in the dance-apocalypse Kwongkan. Created over three years, and influenced by sacred sites in remote Australia and tropical India, the Perth Festival show is a dazzling mix of hope and fear. Many saw the collaboration between WA’s Ochre Contemporary Dance Company and India’s Daksha Sheth Dance Company…
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TRESPASSING is an intriguing blend of experimental theatre and video/sound art. Watch in awe as four women dive into a world of visual projections and toy with each other’s emotions. Created by Fremantle director Bello Benischauer and partner Elisabeth Eitelberger, the show confronts trespassing and privacy in an up-close and personal performance that promises to…
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YOUNG teens can enjoy an entertaining fable about the internet at the Blue Room Theatre this summer. Troll is a lo-fi, Wi-Fi show about the digital age and things that go bump in the night. Changing the world Written and performed by Kiwi Ralph McCubbin Howell, it’s set in 1998 when the internet was on…
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OPERA singer Fiona Cooper Smyth’s vision for Defying Gravity was celestial music of the highest order. But singer partner Penny Shaw kept coming up with amusing twists on the songs. “I just heard lifting your boobs up and getting botox,” she laughs. Lip-sucking The final result is a botox-pumping, lip-sucking, wrinkle-relaxing cabaret that will have…
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BAYSWATER chanteuse Jessie Gordon will play at the opening of WA’s hottest new jazz and blues club, the Duke of George, as part of Fringe World. Situated in East Fremantle, the club is in the basement of the old heritage-listed Brush Factory, which has been transformed into a dimly-lit jazz venue. Accompanied by pianist/clarinetist Adrain…
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FRINGE World is just over the horizon and there’s a whopping 700 acts with something for everyone. Last year’s festival was the biggest yet with close to a million people flocking to venues around Perth. “We were so overjoyed at how much people loved going on a Fringe binge,” says festival director Amber Hasler. For…
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COMEDIAN Craig Quartermaine weaves Aboriginal politics into jokes that will make you laugh and squirm. The Perth Nyoongar used to drive trucks for the mining industry and had a spell as an apprentice chef, but he left that all behind after winning a broadcasting scholarship with ABC Radio. Urbane, with a sharp and wicked wit,…
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