Reviews

DragSpeare: Drag Kings do Shakespeare creators Anne Pensalfini and Jo Loth have assembled a crew of Drag Kings (female identifying performance artists who dress in masculine drag) to perform a clever cabaret for the 2024 MELT Festival.

In fog-bound London in 1880, at the upper class home of Jack Manningham and his wife Bella, we soon learn that Bella is very much on edge mentally and that this state of mind has been pushed by her husband. The question that gains more traction is why do the gaslights dim at a regular time most days of the week. As the play progresses, the audience learns so much more than it could have imagined – and we wanted to learn so much more of the ever-deepening mystery. Let’s just say that husband Jack had some questions to answer. Then the devious detective arrives. 

Art in Motion Theatre Company present the WA Premiere of Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, at the City of Gosnells, Don Russell Performing Arts Centre. Opening night saw an almost full house, responding very positively to this upbeat and positive new musical.

Spinning Plates Co. demonstrate exceptional inventiveness in this quirky and highly stylised production. It maintains all the political spirit of Ionesco’s text while carefully and effectively infusing it with the absurdist and bizarre qualities that characterise his work. The attention to detail in the characterisations, the staging and especially the costuming is truly impressive. The inhabitants of this fictional town are subject to an invasion by rhinoceros, slowly but surely transforming them, one by one, into the beasts.