Theatre Reviews Perth

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

Reviewed by Paul Treasure Two cardinals sit deep in prayer or meditation as the audience file in. Is this some inkling of the tone of the show we are about to see? It is named “The Chair of Saint Peter” after all. Is this going to be another tense exploration of what goes on behind the closed doors of a Papal Conclave? Any misgivings give way rapidly in a frenzy of activity as the opening dance number introduces us with a full Las Vegas showgirl flair to the newly elected Pop