Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan Roxy Lane Theatre’s latest production, Marjorie Prime, takes on Jordan Harrison’s quietly powerful play about aging, memory and artificial intelligence. Short-listed for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the script remains a thoughtful exploration of how we remember the people we love, and what it might mean to preserve them through technology. In this staging, the work is presented with care, delivering a production that is visually appealing a

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