Reviews

This family concert by the QSO asks young audiences to hear the difference between instruments, and to witness the magic that music can make in their imaginative landscapes. World-renowned and award-winning Scottish composer, educator and presenter, Paul Rissmann, guides the audience to appreciate the power of the orchestra, with the help of vocalist Ashleigh Denning (also an educator). The conductor is Jen Winley, a percussionist, teacher, and conductor of the WA Youth Orchestra.

Step right up and witness the spellbinding spectacle La Clique, celebrating a tantalising 20 years, now showing in the stunning Opera House. 

The audience is transported into a realm where the impossible feels possible as the lights dim. 

The set design is a simple stage. Small and intimate, the audience sits in the round. Fairy lights form the big top while hues of red and blue are cast over the theatre. It morphs and evolves, creating spaces where fairy tales meet fantasies. 

Spooky season is upon us, so it’s the perfect time for a Séance. This one takes place in a 40-foot shipping container. The interior has been converted to appear like a Victorian era room containing one long table flanked by chairs. There isn't a Ouija board in sight however and most of the action takes place in the scariest location of all - the mind.

‘A story entered, a tiny key we turned’ sings Alice Spencer, on the platform of a London Underground station, shrinking from the sounds of the Blitz above her. It’s an escape, a safe place – or maybe not, because this is Wonderland.