Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Paul Treasure The 3rd Year acting students from WAAPA have taken on a mighty challenge by presenting us with Martin McDonagh’s incredibly dark comedy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Performing at the Subiaco Arts Centre, set designer Ruby Trevor-Mills has made the decision to present us with a single living room set, portraying the various changes in locale through a repositioning of furniture. While this could have become confusing, it was intelligently done, and e

Reviewed by Paul Treasure Producing plays that are based on films comes with its own list of challenges, not least of which is that films are by their very nature cinematic! They have a lot of short scenes set in a large number of very different locations, which can be very difficult to even attempt to replicate onstage. Vanessa Jensen and her team have grabbed this bull by its horns and conquered it in style. Upon entering the auditorium, we see the stage dominated by a very

Reviewed by Paul Treasure One of, if not the, most frequently performed Shakespeare plays in the past decade, Macbeth is GRADS Theatre Company’s latest production at the New Fortune Theatre in the Arts Building at UWA. One of Perth community theatre’s best Shakespearean actresses, Grace Edwards, has made the move to the other side of the footlights and tried her hand at directing for the first time, giving us an intriguing and thought-provoking production. Eschewing any need