Reviews

Your Mouth Collective is a newly formed Perth based theatre company, participating in their first Fringeworld season.

Alice is Drowning is a simple, nicely told tale, which combines a coming-of-age story with road-trip and fairy-tale genres, to create a sweet, enjoyable two-hander.

Baby-faced twenty-year-olds Phoebe Sullivan and Lukas Radovich play sixteen year old best friends Alice and Brian very convincingly. Phoebe gives dreamy but deluded Alice a genuine charm, while Lukas' Brian is charming, loyal and superbly played.

Thrill Me is an excellent production – with a stylish set by Daniel Harvey, innovative lighting by Jason Bovaird and terrific acting by Vincent Hooper and Stephen Madsen. Director Terence O’Connell expertly pulls the production together and Daniele Buatti handles the score beautifully on a lone piano. All of which surpass the actual material itself, but not the story it’s based upon.

Eleanor: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany, an international show at WA's Fringeworld, is written and performed by Ingrid Garner, based on the memoirs of her grandmother Eleanor Ramreth-Garner.

An outstanding performance, Ingrid Garner is a passionate performer who brings her grandmother's story to life with love, warmth and intensity in a captivating story that has the audience on the edge of their seats.

The foyer of the Drama Theatre is slightly different. Most of the seating has been removed. Several small tables are covered with memorabilia selected by the six courageous over 65 year olds who will participate in the production. They mingle with the audience prior to the show, and follow the latecomers into the theatre, taking their places, wine glasses in hand, at a panel-style conference table where they will share their lives … and sexual experiences.