Reviews

The Girl Who Glows is a magical story about a glowing girl called Luna, who travels Australia meeting wonderous luminescent creatures in her quest stop the world from fading to darkness. Aimed at children from 5 upwards, it incorporates delightfully silly humour, live music, glorious lights and a story designed to wake interest in the natural world. The tale is told by Zeeko, a band that has been playing for children including through Musica Viva Australia since 2009. The music is eclectic, from melodic rock and beautiful ballads to opera and rap.

Terrence Rattigan’s post war drama has not been performed in Perth for many years but makes a welcome return in Melville Theatre’s well produced season. A show case piece for a talented mature actress, this production is well supported with high production values and a hard-working supporting cast.

This is a bone chillingly brilliant production which surrounds the audience in sound, and takes them deep into the psyche of Shakespeare’s most famous character.

You won’t leave the opera whistling the tunes, but you will not forget the haunting narrative, which amidst the carnage also has surprising elements of humour.

The opera had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017 and has since had productions at the New York Met, several in Germany and Adelaide Festival.

The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. Marie Clark Musical Theatre (MCMT) was originally well known for its expertise as singers, but over time has evolved to present, with considerable finesse, the ‘who’s who’ of musicals, this being one of those.