Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Paul Treasure With the Perth Concert Hall closed for renovations, it gives the WA Symphony Orchestra the chance to explore new venues for their concerts, including the Studio Underground at the State Theatre Centre. The space is perfect for a chamber sized orchestra, and the seating brings you close to the players, giving it a very intimate feel. The programme consisted of three chamber works all written in the last 35 years, by three living composers. The first p

Reviewed by Paul Treasure In the middle of the stage sits a Pojangmacha, a portable food stall, curtained and quiet, with its white walls and red canopied roof lit from the inside. It sits there as the audience files in, closed, abandoned, full of promise and anticipation. The lights dim, and we are suddenly immersed in a brightly lit nocturnal cityscape projected on the walls of the pojangmacha and on two large video screens that we had previously been almost unaware of. The

Reviewed by Paul Treasure Bulbul is the Persian word for the bird that we would call the nightingale. A bird that traditionally has the sweetest song of all the songbirds, but also the most tragic and horrifying stories as to how a captive nightingale is made to sing. Songs of the Bulbul is a one man dance theatre piece that follows the life of a single nightingale. As the lights dim we are given a brief, but detailed and coldly clinical, rundown of the process it takes to ma