Reviews

This Perth Festival offering, Haribo Kimchi, is a curious blend of autobiographical monologue, clever projection, and the smell of Korean cooking, which is consumed and enjoyed by two lucky audience members.

There’s something quite radical about staging Agatha Christie in 2026 and trusting the audience to sit still and listen. Centenary Theatre Group’s production of The Mirror Crack’d, adapted for the stage by Rachel Wagstaff and directed by Alison Lees, draws the audience into an evening of attentive listening and shared sleuthing alongside Jane Marple, demonstrating that genuine suspense arises not from spectacle, but from language, restraint and the gradual tightening of narrative tension.

Calendar Girls is an inspiring story of ordinary women doing extraordinary things. Networks of women, through friendship, adversity and hard work have and will always continue to transform the world around them.

This is evident in the camaraderie on stage and the commitment of the Huon Valley Company to use part of the proceeds of the production for a cause akin to that of the characters in the show. This determination and generosity of spirit is what makes Calendar Girls endure.

I reviewed Bernie Dieter’s Weimar Punk in the Cabaret Festival of 2022 and have been anxiously awaiting her return. I was not disappointed, she is back, and better than ever with Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett!

Accompanied by her 3-piece band and a troop of accomplished artists, Bernie (chanteuse extraordinaire) serenades us and spreads her message of consent, inclusivity, and the breaking down of inhibitions and barriers.