Theatre Reviews Perth

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan POV  puts an 11-year-old girl in charge of the stage as she sets out to document her family’s story. Each night, a different pair of adult actors plays her parents — and they walk on without having read the script. The set-up is deliciously nerve-wracking. In the lead-up to the season, well-known local performers are invited to take part with barely any detail. They’re told to hold a Working With Children Check and to show up early. Two days before

Reviewed by Kate O'Sullivan Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s LACRIMA is a large-scale, technically intricate and emotionally devastating work that treats ceremony as surface and labour as its deeper truth. Set within the world of haute couture, the production follows the making of a wedding dress for an unnamed British princess, revealing the invisible pressure, exhaustion and quiet harm beneath its beauty. Alice Duchange’s fluid set and Jérémie Scheidler’s integrated video design mo

Reviewed by Caroline Stafford It is a rare show that can take a funeral and turn it into a wild ride of friendship, culture and...