Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan Dragon I, the newest collaboration from James Berlyn and Adam Kelly, sets out to grapple with one of the most pressing questions facing artists today: what happens to storytelling in an era of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence? From the outset, the show invites the audience into the act of creation. Each person is handed a pencil and paper and encouraged to draw their own dragon. Early in the performance the crowd collectively invents a sin

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan When The Last Great Hunt first premiered Lé Nør (The Rain) in 2019, it quickly developed a reputation as one of the company’s most inventive works. Now returning as part of Perth Festival, the show has been remounted for a much larger audience at Heath Ledger Theatre — and its conceptual ambition remains as thrilling as ever. Lé Nør recreates a fictional foreign film live on stage, every night. What unfolds is a roller-coaster narrative that move

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan As part of Perth Festival, Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes storms into His Majesty's Theatre and very quickly makes it clear whose night this is. Meow Meow is the engine, the chaos agent and the emotional core all at once. She begins as a supposedly reluctant performer, hauled onstage and seemingly devoid of inspiration, but it is obvious from the first moments that we are in extremely capable hands. Her voice can slide from smoky intimacy to a belt that