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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen...

We are past the halfway mark...only six performances left of Playlovers' RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL at Hackett Hall, Floreat. The show has been well-received by small but supportive performances...here's hoping that the numbers pick up towards the end of the season!

Freddie Badgery | 20/11/2009 - 13:06
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In a little over 6 hours Upstart will be opening its second-ever production. The strangest thing for me is that I won't be acting in it.

Due to my commitments with Cry Havoc (which has since become one of the shows I'm most proud of being involved with) I stood aside from performance duties in 'Othello' and confined myself to promotion/FOH duties. And now here I am in unfamiliar territory watching the final dress rehearsals from the audience POV. It's definitely a different world on the other side of the stage.

Gordon the Optom | 20/11/2009 - 08:16

‘Blackbird’ by Scottish playwright David Harrower is a controversial and disturbing, award-winning play. A US Marine, Toby Studebaker, who abducted a 12-year-old British girl after grooming over the Internet, inspired the story. With some trepidation, this play was first ‘tried out’ at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, it was a huge success. The Blak Yak Theatre bravely brings performances of this one act play to the Subiaco Arts Centre Studio, 180 Hamersley Road, Subiaco. Shows start nightly at 7.30, until 5th December.

grantwatson | 19/11/2009 - 12:34

I've recently finished up with Cry Havoc, my two-act political thriller in The Blue Room Theatre. One of my friends came and saw the show, and while loving it a great deal she asked if for my next playscript I could write "something a bit more uplifting". I half-jokingly replied that uplifting isn't something I generally do. I like dark material. I enjoy putting my characters through emotional torture. In the three main dramatic works I've had staged (and this is spoiler territory, in case you're worried) I've killed a President and brought down his government in one play, shot one character dead and traumatised the other in a second, and revealed everyone was dead all along in the third. Happy uplifting endings is not what I do.

Gordon the Optom | 19/11/2009 - 08:21

‘Paper Cuts’ an advanced devised piece by Marisa Garreffa, is the first alliance between ECU’s School of Contemporary Arts and WAAPA. The production is showing at The Roundhouse Theatre, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley until Thursday the 19th November. Shows at 7.30 pm.

       The in-the-round stage is strewn with paper, masses of bundles, sheets, paper aeroplanes and diaries. The audience seats are layered with letters, bills and even Post-its.
       Suspended above the stage is a light mushroom coloured, thick cotton sky. This 300 sq. metre piece of cloth has a myriad of holes of cut into it, with chandeliers of fine lights suspended through them.
       A young man (Charles Boman) sits, and gently plucks at his guitar. Nine girls, some of whom live together, others leading their own lives, start to live out their daily routine. As we eavesdrop, we see periods of our own past lives unfold.
      The characters range from a wonderful, bubbly cherub – probably called Melonie(!) - who fires her arrows of written love, unnoticed, at the man of her dreams. Then there is the control freak that spends half her life on the toilet, leaves annoying Post-its everywhere for her flat mates, and then wonders why no one likes her. There is a poet, constantly writing French billet-doux to her true love, Sunny. A girl who is desperate to have her first real boyfriend, but reads between the lines far too much. The flatmate who tells us all about her experiences, the complaining letter writer, the red-hot lover, the chain letter writer – the combinations are endless.
      In the end, could Chicken Licken have been correct? Excellent work from Dean Gibbs, Thea and Katherine.

The characters very well observed and portrayed, with plenty of pace and interest. The cast were Courtney Thorne, Ebony Ruggero, Jackie Davis, Jaleesa Bajars, Jess Harlond-Kenny, Lisa Henderson, Sam Froudist, Stevie-Lee Bounader and Tamara Apenis.
Every aspect of message writing and texting has been included. The script is very funny throughout, yet there is still a touch of pathos and the feel of the frustration that young people experience in their lives.

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