Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan As part of Perth Festival, The Trial  arrives with the quiet authority you’d expect from Philip Glass’s 26th opera, spare in scale but anything but slight in impact. Based on The Trial by Franz Kafka, with a libretto by Christopher Hampton, the work distils Kafka’s unfinished WWI-era novel into a lean, unsettling two-act chamber opera. Eight singers take on multiple roles, accompanied by a 12-player ensemble, and from this modest framework emerges

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan POV  puts an 11-year-old girl in charge of the stage as she sets out to document her family’s story. Each night, a different pair of adult actors plays her parents — and they walk on without having read the script. The set-up is deliciously nerve-wracking. In the lead-up to the season, well-known local performers are invited to take part with barely any detail. They’re told to hold a Working With Children Check and to show up early. Two days before

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan There is something oddly unifying about radio shock jocks. You either love them, or you absolutely cannot stand them. Weeping Spoon Productions gives audiences plenty of reasons to feel both, delivering a sharp and energetic look at the world of commercial morning radio. Running two simultaneous plot lines, one on air and one off, the show offers a comedic peek behind the microphone. We see not only the performative banter designed to hook listener