Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan As part of Perth Festival, U>N>I>T>E>D by Chunky Move feels confident and visually striking, with a clear sense of the world it wants to build. The first thing you notice is the machinery. Each dancer is strapped into heavy, industrial mechanical limbs that are bulky and imposing. Yet the performers inside remain recognisably human. There is something grasshopper-like in the way they brace and spring, negotiating weight and balance with impressive

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