Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan As part of Perth Festival, Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes storms into His Majesty's Theatre and very quickly makes it clear whose night this is. Meow Meow is the engine, the chaos agent and the emotional core all at once. She begins as a supposedly reluctant performer, hauled onstage and seemingly devoid of inspiration, but it is obvious from the first moments that we are in extremely capable hands. Her voice can slide from smoky intimacy to a belt that

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan As part of Perth Festival, the booster protocol  transforms a quiet area of the Perth CBD into the launch pad for a time-travelling mission with a social conscience. The adventure begins at the Boost Travel Agency, tucked in beside the Liberty Theatre. The (temporarily set up) office is convincingly ordinary, albeit slightly dated, full of technology and travel posters, until you notice the brochures advertising tours not just for 2026, but for dec

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