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 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