Reviews

Leather Lungs’ voice begins the show and it is truly impressive. So is the energy Leather Lungs brings to the stage. There are lots of salacious quips and adult smut mixed in with painful sharing of their relationship journey. There’s plenty to laugh about in the descriptions of the fumbling relationships with a dentist, and a person from Australia’s most wanted list but then the mood turns serious when the coercive and controlling narcissist arrives. Leather Lungs gives tribute to their family and the help others gave to help them through this difficult situation.

Curtain Up is a bit of a twist on the “backstage play” (for which this author is particularly renowned), as five women inherit a rundown theatre.

Nicely directed, and performed with relish, this simply set play had a very short season at the Pinjarra Civic Centre. Featuring a cast that clearly had an excellent rapport, this is a slightly madcap story of a diverse group of women that are forced by circumstance to get along.

Poems have long been the catylist for some well-known songs. The poems of T. S. Elliot, a favourite of Andrew Lloyd Webber growing up, were the inspiration for him to create the score for Cats. First performed in 1981 and the fifth longest running Broadway show, the poems are from the 1939 book ‘Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats’.

Joyride is a series of vignettes set in a desolate car park complete with graffiti around a classic beamer (BMW). The focus on the car as both vehicle and place of relationship creates opportunity for the introduction of movement, circus and slapstick elements.

There is synchronised seat dancing to a classic driving mix, chases around the car, a breakout dance, a crash, a beer shower and clean for the car and a very modest stagehand who provides everything from Maccas meals to rain.