Showing posts with label fringeworld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fringeworld. Show all posts
Monday, 18 February 2019
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The Baden Street Singers were a huge mob of a cappella talented fun last year in Acapocalpse and this year they showed that they weren't resting on any laurels. With a number of games designed to put the singers to the most stringent tests - at the audience's very whim they came up aces every time.
First up, an audience member is given control of 5 lights - a scale of faster to slower. As the choir sings, the audience member hits the lights, slowing and speeding the choir at will. It's pretty funny to watch and hear.
Other activities involved using the lights to cut the various sections of the choir, nope, no bass wanted, whoops there go the trebles.
Some covers were requested with various singers volunteering to take them on, in various styles.
And my favourite -
A random chorist is selected via spinning the wheel and has 10 words thrown at them from the gleeful and on occassion positively malicious audience - "schadenfreude" "onomatopoeic" "antipodes" amongst the offerings. And, well, these people are skilled!
They also performed a couple of pieces for their opening and closing numbers. Lovely sound and lots of humour!
I must look out for these folks other performances.
10/10 superb and Postmodern Jukebox performing the Pinky and the Brain theme song on the Sid & Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #westernaustralia #perth
This extraordinary dance troupe Djuki Mala, combines ancient traditional dance moves with contemporary nous and...
This extraordinary dance troupe Djuki Mala, combines ancient traditional dance moves with contemporary nous and creates something wonderful. These guys are from a tiny island in the far north, they're Yolngu folks from Elcho island and they became a Youtube sensation 10 years ago when their rendition of Zorba the Greek got a million hits in 2 weeks.
They're very charismatic, passionate, engaging, energetic and just full of wit and it's hard to watch all of them at once as each one is committing his own kind of mischief! Interspersed with footage of the history of the people and influencers of the group, sad stories and poignant, funny stories and sweet we are brought into the arms of Arnham Land's furthermost reaches.
These fellows are a fine thing to watch and learn and especially laugh with. Wonderful sense of comic timing.
Unreservedly recommended.
10 out of 10 still laughing and Jackie Chan meets Fred Astaire at the disco on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
After you watch this one, hunt up Zorba.
#indigenous #fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #dance
https://vimeo.com/119091909
They're very charismatic, passionate, engaging, energetic and just full of wit and it's hard to watch all of them at once as each one is committing his own kind of mischief! Interspersed with footage of the history of the people and influencers of the group, sad stories and poignant, funny stories and sweet we are brought into the arms of Arnham Land's furthermost reaches.
These fellows are a fine thing to watch and learn and especially laugh with. Wonderful sense of comic timing.
Unreservedly recommended.
10 out of 10 still laughing and Jackie Chan meets Fred Astaire at the disco on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
After you watch this one, hunt up Zorba.
#indigenous #fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #dance
https://vimeo.com/119091909
Friday, 15 February 2019
Dreamtime on the Derbarl Yerrigan is a very scenic voyage around the important waters of the area.
Dreamtime on the Derbarl Yerrigan is a very scenic voyage around the important waters of the area. Surrounded with an astonishing view of water and the city lights you are drawn into the charismatic storyteller's (elder Walter McGuire) description of the area before the British invaded.
It's a very interesting cruise, and informative too, looking at the various artifacts Elder McGuire had brought, particularly the 200 year old message stick. I was really taken with the two songs which Mr McGuire performed - I could have listened to them for much longer, they were so skillfully performed and very moving.
The one koora koora story he related belongs to his family to tell, but if you want to know one version of it, it's written on the wall of the Chevron Gardens facing the Derbarl Yerrigan. (Swan River)
The Crystal Swan was an excellent venue for this experience, and a very interesting experience all around.
8/10 Fascinating and a good tray of thali when you're peckish on the Sid & Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #nyungar #indigenous #nyoongar #noongar
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/dreamtime-on-the-derbarl-yerrigan-fw2019
It's a very interesting cruise, and informative too, looking at the various artifacts Elder McGuire had brought, particularly the 200 year old message stick. I was really taken with the two songs which Mr McGuire performed - I could have listened to them for much longer, they were so skillfully performed and very moving.
The one koora koora story he related belongs to his family to tell, but if you want to know one version of it, it's written on the wall of the Chevron Gardens facing the Derbarl Yerrigan. (Swan River)
The Crystal Swan was an excellent venue for this experience, and a very interesting experience all around.
8/10 Fascinating and a good tray of thali when you're peckish on the Sid & Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #nyungar #indigenous #nyoongar #noongar
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/dreamtime-on-the-derbarl-yerrigan-fw2019
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Two more shows left - and if you want a good laugh I highly recommend this energetic and polished show.
Two more shows left - and if you want a good laugh I highly recommend this energetic and polished show. Watch as just 4 highly skilled performers enact the entire Roman Senate, as well as the engaging Cardenio, William Shakespeare, Detectivus and the entire lot!
Very witty and you may even get a chance to stab Julius Caesar himself, with critique from the cast.
There's a lot of action in this show, and the love of the bard shines through. And the love of Dr Who - it's a time travel piece after all. With rapid costume changes and constant witty dialogue it's a very impressive performance.
The meals at the Brisbane hotel are also very nice, sit by the the goldfish pond for a pleasant surround.
9/10 Hilarity ensues and Tim Curry's butler from Clue had a funny thing happen to him on his way to the Forum on the Sid and Nancy scale. #fringeworld #fringeworld2019
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/the-ides-of-march-fw2019
Very witty and you may even get a chance to stab Julius Caesar himself, with critique from the cast.
There's a lot of action in this show, and the love of the bard shines through. And the love of Dr Who - it's a time travel piece after all. With rapid costume changes and constant witty dialogue it's a very impressive performance.
The meals at the Brisbane hotel are also very nice, sit by the the goldfish pond for a pleasant surround.
9/10 Hilarity ensues and Tim Curry's butler from Clue had a funny thing happen to him on his way to the Forum on the Sid and Nancy scale. #fringeworld #fringeworld2019
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/the-ides-of-march-fw2019
Friday, 8 February 2019
We caught Flame Oz on our way back from our Fringe night, and we're glad we stopped!
We caught Flame Oz on our way back from our Fringe night, and we're glad we stopped! https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/flameoz-delux-fw2019 This dynamic pair with an array of LED tricks and genuine wash-of-heat-in-your-face flaming torches and hoops awe you with their mastery of fire poi dances and impressive gymnastics.
This is really impressive street theatre, so pay what you want, even if it's just a thank you - and it's on for the next couple of nights.
8/10 Smokin' and front row seats at the phoenix burlesque on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #review
This is really impressive street theatre, so pay what you want, even if it's just a thank you - and it's on for the next couple of nights.
8/10 Smokin' and front row seats at the phoenix burlesque on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #review
We saw Hands some Feet last year, and enthusiastically saw it again this year.
We saw Hands some Feet last year, and enthusiastically saw it again this year. This young couple are the very epitome of sweetness on stage and off - take one elfin Finnish woman ( I think she's from Tampere?) and one sturdy Perth man, but watch as together they fight gravity in their unique way.
Actually it's not so much that they fight gravity in that they seem to have gotten a light dispensation - Jeromy Zwick with his extraordinary utilisation of juggling balls, at times far too many to count how many were in the air - and Liisa Naykki with her grace, dancing, running and jumping on the tight wire as though magnetized. Combining their arts in a charming and thoughtful love story - use the backs of your partner's knees on the wire to pass juggling balls to as she dances on it while you're below - juggling with your partner's unresponsive limbs - and other moves that made me feel I was watching intimate moments as Pygmalion - like a response is finally forthcoming.
There's huge frenetic energy, and then sudden, intimate stops - realisations and the facial expressions lead us through the characters' journey. With some new embellishment this year!
The skipping finale' is something to behold.
What is extraordinary is that this rigorous physical combination of wire, music on unusual instruments, singing, juggling, clowning, acrobatics and skipping is not that it's combined so well, although that's true, but that to a viewer in the middle of the heat of Perth feels the whole performance is a refreshing and uplifting cool breeze, a spritzer for the soul.
Hands some Feet have 9 more shows over the next 10 days.
10/10 refreshing and drinking cloudberry fizzy watching the butterflies in the summer forest in Finland on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #review
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/hands-some-feet-fw2019
Actually it's not so much that they fight gravity in that they seem to have gotten a light dispensation - Jeromy Zwick with his extraordinary utilisation of juggling balls, at times far too many to count how many were in the air - and Liisa Naykki with her grace, dancing, running and jumping on the tight wire as though magnetized. Combining their arts in a charming and thoughtful love story - use the backs of your partner's knees on the wire to pass juggling balls to as she dances on it while you're below - juggling with your partner's unresponsive limbs - and other moves that made me feel I was watching intimate moments as Pygmalion - like a response is finally forthcoming.
There's huge frenetic energy, and then sudden, intimate stops - realisations and the facial expressions lead us through the characters' journey. With some new embellishment this year!
The skipping finale' is something to behold.
What is extraordinary is that this rigorous physical combination of wire, music on unusual instruments, singing, juggling, clowning, acrobatics and skipping is not that it's combined so well, although that's true, but that to a viewer in the middle of the heat of Perth feels the whole performance is a refreshing and uplifting cool breeze, a spritzer for the soul.
Hands some Feet have 9 more shows over the next 10 days.
10/10 refreshing and drinking cloudberry fizzy watching the butterflies in the summer forest in Finland on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #review
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/hands-some-feet-fw2019
Saturday, 2 February 2019
On Thursday night we saw the opening of A National Park.
On Thursday night we saw the opening of A National Park. Black Sapphire productions has produced a little gem - a one hour play invested with humour, wisdom and sensitivity. The two performers, Jessie Ward & Killian Harty as respectively Akasha the knowledgeable park ranger on her own boodjar, and Kasey, the Irish ecologist with something of a flaky outlook on things are very well attuned to their roles.
Harty's lovely voice and guitar strumming set the scene in the National Park as he awaits the arrival of Akasha the Park Ranger.
We're somewhere in the South-West of Western Australia 10 years from now - frakking is suspected of destroying the biodiversity of the National Park that Akasha is employed to care for. It being her mob's ancestral boodjar, or heartland, she would have been caring for it anyway I bet, but no harm in being paid, unna?
If you come to this play without any knowledge of Noongar protocols, it's a good first step into awareness of their approach to their relationship with the land and the life on it, and with their interaction with the modern world. Step inside the life of a woman who balances her work, her moort (extended tribe and family), with international travel and rock concerts very successfully.
She makes an extraordinary discovery in the National Park, and things suddenly get complicated - the political and conservation consequences have to be weighed carefully and Kasey the ecologist is very excited about the whole thing. Materialism wars with concern for the land and trust is a very fragile thing. When the very elements seem to be against them while waiting for Auntie some difficult decisions have to be made. You'll laugh a lot, there's some very funny writing there, and you'll think some too.
There's really not a lot I can say further without there being serious spoilers. I'd urge anyone to go and see it, but they're sold out, so perhaps if they extend the season or run it again you might get to enjoy it.
There were a couple of sections that I felt were a bit odd. They go to sleep, with still some way to go to the cave, but when they wake up, after some conversation, they're suddenly there? I'm not sure that for me that there was enough indication that some time had passed in travel. But then time is not the same for wadjela as it is for Nyoongar.
I really liked the soundscape of the birds and the insects, some very familiar southwest sounds there. Nice to have a few Noongar words too, being used and explained.
Andrea Fernandez, the writer heading up Black Sapphire productions has done a great job with these characters and with the story and I look forward to seeing more of her work! The next one will be a musical!
8/10 Boola moorditj and The Real Inspector Hound goes bushwalking with Napoleon Bonaparte on the Sid & Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #review #indigenous #noongar
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/a-national-park-fw2019
Harty's lovely voice and guitar strumming set the scene in the National Park as he awaits the arrival of Akasha the Park Ranger.
We're somewhere in the South-West of Western Australia 10 years from now - frakking is suspected of destroying the biodiversity of the National Park that Akasha is employed to care for. It being her mob's ancestral boodjar, or heartland, she would have been caring for it anyway I bet, but no harm in being paid, unna?
If you come to this play without any knowledge of Noongar protocols, it's a good first step into awareness of their approach to their relationship with the land and the life on it, and with their interaction with the modern world. Step inside the life of a woman who balances her work, her moort (extended tribe and family), with international travel and rock concerts very successfully.
She makes an extraordinary discovery in the National Park, and things suddenly get complicated - the political and conservation consequences have to be weighed carefully and Kasey the ecologist is very excited about the whole thing. Materialism wars with concern for the land and trust is a very fragile thing. When the very elements seem to be against them while waiting for Auntie some difficult decisions have to be made. You'll laugh a lot, there's some very funny writing there, and you'll think some too.
There's really not a lot I can say further without there being serious spoilers. I'd urge anyone to go and see it, but they're sold out, so perhaps if they extend the season or run it again you might get to enjoy it.
There were a couple of sections that I felt were a bit odd. They go to sleep, with still some way to go to the cave, but when they wake up, after some conversation, they're suddenly there? I'm not sure that for me that there was enough indication that some time had passed in travel. But then time is not the same for wadjela as it is for Nyoongar.
I really liked the soundscape of the birds and the insects, some very familiar southwest sounds there. Nice to have a few Noongar words too, being used and explained.
Andrea Fernandez, the writer heading up Black Sapphire productions has done a great job with these characters and with the story and I look forward to seeing more of her work! The next one will be a musical!
8/10 Boola moorditj and The Real Inspector Hound goes bushwalking with Napoleon Bonaparte on the Sid & Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #review #indigenous #noongar
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/a-national-park-fw2019
On Thursday night we went to see Jon Gracey's Werewolf: Live.
On Thursday night we went to see Jon Gracey's Werewolf: Live. This is a variation on the card game Mafia, done as a panel game. Now that sounds pretty mild, but no no no. If you have played Werewolf or any of its variants you will understand the psychological thrill of the game, and the intrinsic black humour of the situation of trying to get a lynch mob to hang anyone but you. But to be an observer of the unfolding drama adds a voyeuristic cheerfulness all its own. Like watching the opener of a Columbo episode, you will know whodunnit after the second night - unless you're a volunteer from the audience yourself. What you won't know until the end is whether the Werewolf/ves will get away with it at the end of the session.
So how it goes - Jon, our energetic, enthusiastic and well directing narrator in his Cloak of Foreshadowing Doom +2 narrates to a bunch of finely selected comedians and one (lucky) audience member - all of whom are wearing fabulous hats. The villagers sleep, the werewolves are directed to slay someone, the Seer has a vision, and the villagers wake to find that someone/s amongst them must be a murderer, as someone doesn't wake. The roles are dealt randomly, and as far as everyone knows, anyone could be a werewolf, a seer or a villager. But there is only one seer, and there might be one or two werewolves.
If you are killed, you lose your hat. But if you're the first killed, you get a special hat, so it's not so bad. No, wait...
All fairly straightforward and a game we've seen many times played at clubs, conventions and game nights. Add a bunch of highly diverse comedians who are keen not to get killed by the mob and the laughs come thick and fast. "I'm an emergency nurse, I haven't killed anyone for ages!" "I haven't killed anyone. Except for that dwarf, years ago." "If you're an astronomer, you should KNOW whether the moon is full!" (The audience member that time was Gemma, the astronomer. And she did.)
It's quite funny when the people aren't familiar with the nuances of the game. Some comedians just can't help making faces or gestures when they're supposed to be silently agreeing on who to kill, so even people with their eyes closed will sense that the person next to them might be nefarious if they're moving. But they just can't help themselves!
It was a star lineup - and this is my favourite way to see comedy - when the comedians are out of their element and under unusual pressures.
Also, you're getting very good bang for your buck, not only is it being shown at the prestigious State Theatre Centre, (go out on the balcony before the show and take in the city view, it's astonishing!), you get to see 8 really good comedians at once, and the interactions are glorious.
On Thursday night we had Milo McCabe, Georgie Carroll, Dirk Darrow, Louisa Fitzhardinge (Comma Sutra), John Robles, Rose Callaghan and Michael Shafar - as well as our dynamic Narrator of Doom Jon Gracey.
Tonight's guests are Yianni Agisilaou, Kate Smurthwaite, Michael Shafar, Sharon Mahoney, John Robles, Mary Bourke, and Milo McCabe.
There are shows tonight and tomorrow.
Thoroughly recommended for gamers, for gamers to take their non-gaming friends and family to, for non-gaming people who want to give their gaming friends and family a treat, people who just want a laugh and studiers of mob psychology.
10/10 hilarious and The Marx Brothers on the Orient Express on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/werewolf-live-fw2019
So how it goes - Jon, our energetic, enthusiastic and well directing narrator in his Cloak of Foreshadowing Doom +2 narrates to a bunch of finely selected comedians and one (lucky) audience member - all of whom are wearing fabulous hats. The villagers sleep, the werewolves are directed to slay someone, the Seer has a vision, and the villagers wake to find that someone/s amongst them must be a murderer, as someone doesn't wake. The roles are dealt randomly, and as far as everyone knows, anyone could be a werewolf, a seer or a villager. But there is only one seer, and there might be one or two werewolves.
If you are killed, you lose your hat. But if you're the first killed, you get a special hat, so it's not so bad. No, wait...
All fairly straightforward and a game we've seen many times played at clubs, conventions and game nights. Add a bunch of highly diverse comedians who are keen not to get killed by the mob and the laughs come thick and fast. "I'm an emergency nurse, I haven't killed anyone for ages!" "I haven't killed anyone. Except for that dwarf, years ago." "If you're an astronomer, you should KNOW whether the moon is full!" (The audience member that time was Gemma, the astronomer. And she did.)
It's quite funny when the people aren't familiar with the nuances of the game. Some comedians just can't help making faces or gestures when they're supposed to be silently agreeing on who to kill, so even people with their eyes closed will sense that the person next to them might be nefarious if they're moving. But they just can't help themselves!
It was a star lineup - and this is my favourite way to see comedy - when the comedians are out of their element and under unusual pressures.
Also, you're getting very good bang for your buck, not only is it being shown at the prestigious State Theatre Centre, (go out on the balcony before the show and take in the city view, it's astonishing!), you get to see 8 really good comedians at once, and the interactions are glorious.
On Thursday night we had Milo McCabe, Georgie Carroll, Dirk Darrow, Louisa Fitzhardinge (Comma Sutra), John Robles, Rose Callaghan and Michael Shafar - as well as our dynamic Narrator of Doom Jon Gracey.
Tonight's guests are Yianni Agisilaou, Kate Smurthwaite, Michael Shafar, Sharon Mahoney, John Robles, Mary Bourke, and Milo McCabe.
There are shows tonight and tomorrow.
Thoroughly recommended for gamers, for gamers to take their non-gaming friends and family to, for non-gaming people who want to give their gaming friends and family a treat, people who just want a laugh and studiers of mob psychology.
10/10 hilarious and The Marx Brothers on the Orient Express on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/werewolf-live-fw2019
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Imagine a goldstone building of Neoclassical Art Deco design - built for the education of girls, later as a bastion...
Imagine a goldstone building of Neoclassical Art Deco design - built for the education of girls, later as a bastion of the Law and left deserted and reimagined as a cinema space, all of this left behind and dropped into a montage of themes and drapery from the Gothic world of Edgar Allen Poe. Night starts to fall.
Hydrate first. Take your reading glasses, if you need them, in a padded pocket, the lights will be dim, and there are messages to be read.
Talking is not permitted. We sink into the suspension of disbelief and it takes quite a bit to be pulled out of it at the end.
Smoke rises from gravestones and figures charge through the twilight - a bell rings. A row of infirmary beds. Deserted prams. A loud, accusatory heartbeat - what's that glow under the floorboards? An untidy nest of clutter behind a stage. A black tunnel of feathers opening out into somewhere unexpected.
Helpful signs - The Pit, The House, The Heights show the way. Tunnels and passages are hidden in plain view. Messages are to be found - voices cry out in fear or supplication or invitation, in the distance or near. It depends where you are in the School.
This is an intense and surprisingly intimate experience. There can be lots of stairs, and crawling through tunnels. It's disorienting and surreal, and very, very dreamlike. Doors seem to open onto new rooms, acts spring up out of nowhere, dark figures move around, ushering. You might be urged to go with some of the main characters, larger than life. The Actress to help her, a Detective might whisk you away for what - a little girl might demand to be read to in a lake of pink bubbles...
It all seems to go on forever.
This is not jump out of the cupboard and scare you boo! horror. It's the slow forbidding horror of unfolding suspense and a fever dream cycling around. The entire setup is ingenious, and huge amount of props and transformation material has been used, and the performers amazing.
I'm still not sure whether I should be pleased or sorry I didn't try to map the place.
There are stairs and tunnels and passages. They can do access friendly tours but they are limited and you need to check with them first. Edit: no longer accessible available.
A big thank you to all the Veiled Ushers who have the most thankless task in this performance.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Highly recommended to people after an immersive experience, who like Gothic horror, surrealistic surroundings and the passion of performers so immersed in their roles that it was quite the a relief to see them emerging into reality after the show.
10/10 Enthralling and on the Sid and Nancy scale: a fun night for all the kids at the H P Lovecraft holiday fun camp with a visit from Dark's Carnival.
There's several more performances. We had an 8:30 one, which was pretty good, as it gave us the option of staying longer to see bits we'd seen the the end of, but not the start of, once we heard the cues and understood what they meant.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #perth #westernaustralia
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/a-midnight-visit-fw2019
Hydrate first. Take your reading glasses, if you need them, in a padded pocket, the lights will be dim, and there are messages to be read.
Talking is not permitted. We sink into the suspension of disbelief and it takes quite a bit to be pulled out of it at the end.
Smoke rises from gravestones and figures charge through the twilight - a bell rings. A row of infirmary beds. Deserted prams. A loud, accusatory heartbeat - what's that glow under the floorboards? An untidy nest of clutter behind a stage. A black tunnel of feathers opening out into somewhere unexpected.
Helpful signs - The Pit, The House, The Heights show the way. Tunnels and passages are hidden in plain view. Messages are to be found - voices cry out in fear or supplication or invitation, in the distance or near. It depends where you are in the School.
This is an intense and surprisingly intimate experience. There can be lots of stairs, and crawling through tunnels. It's disorienting and surreal, and very, very dreamlike. Doors seem to open onto new rooms, acts spring up out of nowhere, dark figures move around, ushering. You might be urged to go with some of the main characters, larger than life. The Actress to help her, a Detective might whisk you away for what - a little girl might demand to be read to in a lake of pink bubbles...
It all seems to go on forever.
This is not jump out of the cupboard and scare you boo! horror. It's the slow forbidding horror of unfolding suspense and a fever dream cycling around. The entire setup is ingenious, and huge amount of props and transformation material has been used, and the performers amazing.
I'm still not sure whether I should be pleased or sorry I didn't try to map the place.
There are stairs and tunnels and passages. They can do access friendly tours but they are limited and you need to check with them first. Edit: no longer accessible available.
A big thank you to all the Veiled Ushers who have the most thankless task in this performance.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Highly recommended to people after an immersive experience, who like Gothic horror, surrealistic surroundings and the passion of performers so immersed in their roles that it was quite the a relief to see them emerging into reality after the show.
10/10 Enthralling and on the Sid and Nancy scale: a fun night for all the kids at the H P Lovecraft holiday fun camp with a visit from Dark's Carnival.
There's several more performances. We had an 8:30 one, which was pretty good, as it gave us the option of staying longer to see bits we'd seen the the end of, but not the start of, once we heard the cues and understood what they meant.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #perth #westernaustralia
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/a-midnight-visit-fw2019
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
The producer of Werewolf: Live contacted The West Australian Boardgame Association which resulted the producer...
The producer of Werewolf: Live contacted The West Australian Boardgame Association which resulted the producer Vivienne and performer Jon rocking up to WABA Thornlie on Saturday. Despite this being one of the quieter meets due to the Australia Day Long Weekend we were able to garner enough interest to have Jon run several sessions. In this game - based on the original card game Mafia, villagers sleep each night, but a werewolf or werewolves are amongst them, so each night someone wakes up dead. It's the villagers, and their hidden Seer that must find and lynch the werewolves (or use traditional werewolf killing methods) before it's too late and the werewolves outnumber the villagers and they run wild.
A mixture of suspense, horror and black humour is made even more atmospheric by props and enthusiasm. Jon, in his cloak (brave fellow, it was a hot Australia Day outside) and surrounded by trappings of mystery and black silk table coverings led us through the story with flair and humour. With his energy and funny patter we were all soon cheerfully either dead or trying not to be so.
There were props galore, and we all got to wear splendid hats. We're going to see the full effect on Thursday night - with the music and lighting, as I am joining the audience at the State Theatre Centre on Thursday night - details here if you want to come join me and Rob.
So what will happen there is that Jon will lead a bunch of professional comedians through the game, joined by one audience member, which should be most amusing to watch! I'll bring back a review of the actual performance, so until Thursday! (or most probably Friday as it's gonna be a late night)
It should certainly be a contrast to A National Park, which we're also seeing that night. There's 4 performances only - the 31st January, and the 1,2, and 3rd of February so check it out.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #boardgames
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/werewolf-live-fw2019
A mixture of suspense, horror and black humour is made even more atmospheric by props and enthusiasm. Jon, in his cloak (brave fellow, it was a hot Australia Day outside) and surrounded by trappings of mystery and black silk table coverings led us through the story with flair and humour. With his energy and funny patter we were all soon cheerfully either dead or trying not to be so.
There were props galore, and we all got to wear splendid hats. We're going to see the full effect on Thursday night - with the music and lighting, as I am joining the audience at the State Theatre Centre on Thursday night - details here if you want to come join me and Rob.
So what will happen there is that Jon will lead a bunch of professional comedians through the game, joined by one audience member, which should be most amusing to watch! I'll bring back a review of the actual performance, so until Thursday! (or most probably Friday as it's gonna be a late night)
It should certainly be a contrast to A National Park, which we're also seeing that night. There's 4 performances only - the 31st January, and the 1,2, and 3rd of February so check it out.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2019 #boardgames
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/werewolf-live-fw2019
Friday, 25 January 2019
Last night was the first Wet Sounds concert for the 2019 Perth Fringe.
Last night was the first Wet Sounds concert for the 2019 Perth Fringe.
We turned up at the HBF Stadium fairly early and just chilled as the support people arrived from Perth Dive. They sold and hired out masks and snorkels for those that didn't have them, and were also providing saftey support in the dive pool where the concert was being held, so during the concert it wasn't unusual to be showered in rising bubbles as a diver released them from their respirator.
This breathtaking concert is a fully immersive experience. You enter the water with the other audience members but they become shapes in the water in the dim and coloured gentle lightshow, moving on the surface and below it, diving deep to get the best sound. The sound track at the surface is harsh and vital, but as you dive it vanishes into a smoother, clearer crystal sound - changing as you rise and descend.
It reminded me of Jarre's Concerts in China, and throw in some Alan Lauris, Mike Oldfield and maybe some 4AD stuff. It is its own unique sound and while certainly novel and original is not a gimmick - there's a real craftsmanship in making your audience part of the medium, and the weaving of the tracks is masterful.
Float on the surface with your ears underwater, float with one ear under and one ear above for a really unique stereo experience, and dive, dive, dive! It's a unique invitation to become a composer yourself, you are effectively doing your own mixing - combining the tracks as you ascend and swim down.
Unfortunately for us, when I enquired I was told that the HBF Stadium doesn't permit mertails, which would have added to the surreal and magical experience for the diving part, but small fins would be fine. There are quite a few people in the water, of all skills, so be aware of other patrons entranced by the novelty and look before you dive.
Goggles and snorkel a necessity - you can hire them. Don't forget the trick with the baby shampoo for the defogging of your goggles before you go.
Highly recommended.
9 out of 10 breathtaking and The Abyss jamming with humpbacks at a laser light show on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld2019 #fringe #underwater #music #perth #fringeworld
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/wet-sounds-fw2019
We turned up at the HBF Stadium fairly early and just chilled as the support people arrived from Perth Dive. They sold and hired out masks and snorkels for those that didn't have them, and were also providing saftey support in the dive pool where the concert was being held, so during the concert it wasn't unusual to be showered in rising bubbles as a diver released them from their respirator.
This breathtaking concert is a fully immersive experience. You enter the water with the other audience members but they become shapes in the water in the dim and coloured gentle lightshow, moving on the surface and below it, diving deep to get the best sound. The sound track at the surface is harsh and vital, but as you dive it vanishes into a smoother, clearer crystal sound - changing as you rise and descend.
It reminded me of Jarre's Concerts in China, and throw in some Alan Lauris, Mike Oldfield and maybe some 4AD stuff. It is its own unique sound and while certainly novel and original is not a gimmick - there's a real craftsmanship in making your audience part of the medium, and the weaving of the tracks is masterful.
Float on the surface with your ears underwater, float with one ear under and one ear above for a really unique stereo experience, and dive, dive, dive! It's a unique invitation to become a composer yourself, you are effectively doing your own mixing - combining the tracks as you ascend and swim down.
Unfortunately for us, when I enquired I was told that the HBF Stadium doesn't permit mertails, which would have added to the surreal and magical experience for the diving part, but small fins would be fine. There are quite a few people in the water, of all skills, so be aware of other patrons entranced by the novelty and look before you dive.
Goggles and snorkel a necessity - you can hire them. Don't forget the trick with the baby shampoo for the defogging of your goggles before you go.
Highly recommended.
9 out of 10 breathtaking and The Abyss jamming with humpbacks at a laser light show on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld2019 #fringe #underwater #music #perth #fringeworld
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/wet-sounds-fw2019
Friday, 23 February 2018
Snacks - A Musical Tasting Plate brings together a well selected trio of short musicals, completely unrelated but...
Snacks - A Musical Tasting Plate brings together a well selected trio of short musicals, completely unrelated but well matched.
In just 1 hour's performance we were transported to a hillside corn farm, to Whitechapel, 1888 and to Long Island!
Ludicrous Display's performance was great. In a musical (unlike opera) it's kind of important to be able to hear the words, and so often diction isn't clear or the music overshadows it. But we were left in doubt as to the narrative. The highly skilled and dynamic John McPherson on keyboard "I'll be your pianist tonight!" spun out the sprightly music for the other performers and kept everyone on track, as well he should, being also the Musical Director.
Strawman
Music by Jinhee Kim
Book and Lyrics by Cal Silberstein
This piece had my favourite characters - the wonderful Anzu, played by James Marzec and his attendant crows. The performers must have been studying the antics, playfulness and intelligence of real crows, because they sure nailed it. A lot of fun to watch, and I'm sure, in the end, something could be worked out to everyone's satisfaction.
Ben Thomas and Olivia Everett were a strong duo as the star crossed lovers.
Darling Jack
Music by Nick Stephens
Book and Lyrics by Rebecca Hart
This was the most intense of the productions. Antonina Heymanson as Wendy Maybrick's innocence intelligence against the knowing Ben Thomas as Johnny Gill and Thomas Owen as the powerful and looming Dr Maybrick.
The inversion of a popular tale about another Wendy (and if you've read it, you'll recognise the darkness in the original) melded with the darkest legend of Whitechapel is a powerful one, and the performers make it resonate.
Completely chilling if you know anything at all about Whitechapel and 1888.
Schooled & Lettered
Music by Jacinth Greywoode and Lyrics by Chase O'Neill
Book by Jacinth Greywoode and Chase O'Neill
Wisely ending on a humorous note after the intensity of the second work, this comedy of manners had us all laughing - just the right delivery. Michaela Sheehy as the matter of fact farm girl was a great contrast to Olivia Everett as the ever so proper Barbara Ross, her Long Island estate hostess. James Marzec comes back as the highly eligible bachelor Charles Scott.
This was an interesting way to experience musicals - and what was interesting was that there was no movement of the props on set between the performances, the entire thing was set up to be useful to all three very different musicals. Some clever thought has gone into that.
Solid and well performed!
This is being performed at the Subiaco Arts Centre twice an evening, tonight and tomorrow night.
10/10 entertaining and finding a box of chocolatier chocolate that no one else has been at on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth #review
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/snacks-a-musical-tasting-plate-fw2018
In just 1 hour's performance we were transported to a hillside corn farm, to Whitechapel, 1888 and to Long Island!
Ludicrous Display's performance was great. In a musical (unlike opera) it's kind of important to be able to hear the words, and so often diction isn't clear or the music overshadows it. But we were left in doubt as to the narrative. The highly skilled and dynamic John McPherson on keyboard "I'll be your pianist tonight!" spun out the sprightly music for the other performers and kept everyone on track, as well he should, being also the Musical Director.
Strawman
Music by Jinhee Kim
Book and Lyrics by Cal Silberstein
This piece had my favourite characters - the wonderful Anzu, played by James Marzec and his attendant crows. The performers must have been studying the antics, playfulness and intelligence of real crows, because they sure nailed it. A lot of fun to watch, and I'm sure, in the end, something could be worked out to everyone's satisfaction.
Ben Thomas and Olivia Everett were a strong duo as the star crossed lovers.
Darling Jack
Music by Nick Stephens
Book and Lyrics by Rebecca Hart
This was the most intense of the productions. Antonina Heymanson as Wendy Maybrick's innocence intelligence against the knowing Ben Thomas as Johnny Gill and Thomas Owen as the powerful and looming Dr Maybrick.
The inversion of a popular tale about another Wendy (and if you've read it, you'll recognise the darkness in the original) melded with the darkest legend of Whitechapel is a powerful one, and the performers make it resonate.
Completely chilling if you know anything at all about Whitechapel and 1888.
Schooled & Lettered
Music by Jacinth Greywoode and Lyrics by Chase O'Neill
Book by Jacinth Greywoode and Chase O'Neill
Wisely ending on a humorous note after the intensity of the second work, this comedy of manners had us all laughing - just the right delivery. Michaela Sheehy as the matter of fact farm girl was a great contrast to Olivia Everett as the ever so proper Barbara Ross, her Long Island estate hostess. James Marzec comes back as the highly eligible bachelor Charles Scott.
This was an interesting way to experience musicals - and what was interesting was that there was no movement of the props on set between the performances, the entire thing was set up to be useful to all three very different musicals. Some clever thought has gone into that.
Solid and well performed!
This is being performed at the Subiaco Arts Centre twice an evening, tonight and tomorrow night.
10/10 entertaining and finding a box of chocolatier chocolate that no one else has been at on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth #review
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/snacks-a-musical-tasting-plate-fw2018
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Michelle Zahner takes us through a fun and thoughtful journey through the life of a modern day superhero, and how...
Michelle Zahner takes us through a fun and thoughtful journey through the life of a modern day superhero, and how they're perceived by others. What transformations may occur during this process? The pressure of the public gaze - sometimes helpful, but what will it do to you?
Using a combination of poetry, The Evening Standard, journals, some cool acrobatics, delicious looking bakery products, the eager and ever willing* Australian theatre volunteer from the audience, a neat projector system and overhead markers Michelle describes the inner turmoil of her heroine, her friend or is it nemesis - and what legacy the Shadow leaves the world.
When a disaster creeps rather than pounces, when people make tiny adjustments to their life rather than doing something about it - when somebody notices and does something about it is when heroism occurs. I did very much like that line, and I hope I'm remembering it right - ~Noticing is the gateway drug to Heroism~.
Zahner's changes of character and associated body language and voices were exceptionally good - highly skilled! Enough for myself as one of the hapless and unskilled volunteers to easily lip-synch the cartoon heroine's voice when needed with the projector, all without seeing the screen or the actor.
At the start of the show you're asked to request something of the superhero by writing in her request book - I asked for a cure for coeliac disease for +Rob Masters who originally wanted to see the show and suggested we go, but he ended up getting a virus and couldn't attend. So I asked on his behalf. But alas, there are some things that superheros can't do. She did apologise.
The show asks questions but doesn't answer them. If you're like me, this makes you go and look up the answers.
I now know what the plural to nemesis is.
I knew what gluten is, of course with poor coeliac husband.
And I also now know what the male equivalent to a damsel is.
~there is a word and it's in the OED ~
A thought provoking and inspiring show, thoroughly entertaining.
10/10 Kapow! Watching "The Tick" monolog on the bus on the way to the City for the first time in The Tick Vs The Idea Men, on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
*this is irony.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth #AModernHero
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/a-modern-guide-to-heroism-sidekickery-fw2018
Using a combination of poetry, The Evening Standard, journals, some cool acrobatics, delicious looking bakery products, the eager and ever willing* Australian theatre volunteer from the audience, a neat projector system and overhead markers Michelle describes the inner turmoil of her heroine, her friend or is it nemesis - and what legacy the Shadow leaves the world.
When a disaster creeps rather than pounces, when people make tiny adjustments to their life rather than doing something about it - when somebody notices and does something about it is when heroism occurs. I did very much like that line, and I hope I'm remembering it right - ~Noticing is the gateway drug to Heroism~.
Zahner's changes of character and associated body language and voices were exceptionally good - highly skilled! Enough for myself as one of the hapless and unskilled volunteers to easily lip-synch the cartoon heroine's voice when needed with the projector, all without seeing the screen or the actor.
At the start of the show you're asked to request something of the superhero by writing in her request book - I asked for a cure for coeliac disease for +Rob Masters who originally wanted to see the show and suggested we go, but he ended up getting a virus and couldn't attend. So I asked on his behalf. But alas, there are some things that superheros can't do. She did apologise.
The show asks questions but doesn't answer them. If you're like me, this makes you go and look up the answers.
I now know what the plural to nemesis is.
I knew what gluten is, of course with poor coeliac husband.
And I also now know what the male equivalent to a damsel is.
~there is a word and it's in the OED ~
A thought provoking and inspiring show, thoroughly entertaining.
10/10 Kapow! Watching "The Tick" monolog on the bus on the way to the City for the first time in The Tick Vs The Idea Men, on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
*this is irony.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth #AModernHero
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/a-modern-guide-to-heroism-sidekickery-fw2018
Some more photos from Club Swizzle.
Some more photos from Club Swizzle.
#clubswizzle #lasoiree #fringeworld2018 #fringeworld #perth
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#clubswizzle #lasoiree #fringeworld2018 #fringeworld #perth
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The sizzle factor is hot in this one!
The sizzle factor is hot in this one! If you go, expect coarse language, a bit of female toplessness and quite a bit of rudeness. But also expect extreme skill and good times.
Welcome to Club Swizzle! With a cast of amazing performers, from acrobats, reverse strip tease artists, musicians, dancers, rollerskate artists, tap dancers and the extraordinary and outrageous Reuben Kaye this cabaret is so polished you can see your face in it, from 10 years ago.
The transformation of a bar that's serving drinks into a performance stage where, indeed, a performer will leap onto a table that people are sitting at (if you're on the table at the end of the bar you are going to have company) or steal a drink.
But it's all in good fun - watch the antics of the waiter acrobats during the breaks, watch the interplay between characters and above all enjoy!
10 out of 10 slick, and Rocky Horror meets Rollerskate Derby at the Restaurant and the End of the Universe on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
#fringeworld #fringeword2018 #perth #clubswizzle #lasoiree
Patrick Hercamp (you might know him from Sound & Fury) has a fresh look for the Scottish Play with his 30 minute...
Patrick Hercamp (you might know him from Sound & Fury) has a fresh look for the Scottish Play with his 30 minute Macbeth. But don't be fooled, it's respectful of the work, and you can't do it this well without a full understanding of the nuance of the original.
Full of audience participation, an unusual point of view and a masterful soliloquy in the midst of otherwise frantic narrative declaiming, it's one I'll try to see again if I can. Because not only is it funny, it's extremely well polished.
It also has a huge narrative power of the oral tradition, the repeated phrases becoming hypnotic and bringing us into the limnal world of story, the supernatural and the forces of destiny. It's really powerful, and hilarious at the same time.
Watching him assume the identities of all the characters, male and female is a masterclass in the art of roleplaying.
My regular readers, all two of them, may recall that Hamlet is the play I'm most familiar with. I've only seen Macbeth once or twice, but it's so much more interesting than Hamlet - full of sound and fury and actually signifying quite a lot.
The first time I saw it I was really favourably impressed and I've had quite the soft spot for it ever since. Patrick has further distilled the story, given it modern language and his enthusiasm for the whole thing infects the audience. You can't help but be impressed.
2-4-1 Sessions for Fringe Friends are available. Highly recommended and
there are sessions on every night from now until the end of Fringeworld Perth.
10/10 Ebullient and a solar powered filigree steampunk wrist television on the Sid and Nancy Scale. Everyone should have one!
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/30-minute-macbeth-fw2018
Full of audience participation, an unusual point of view and a masterful soliloquy in the midst of otherwise frantic narrative declaiming, it's one I'll try to see again if I can. Because not only is it funny, it's extremely well polished.
It also has a huge narrative power of the oral tradition, the repeated phrases becoming hypnotic and bringing us into the limnal world of story, the supernatural and the forces of destiny. It's really powerful, and hilarious at the same time.
Watching him assume the identities of all the characters, male and female is a masterclass in the art of roleplaying.
My regular readers, all two of them, may recall that Hamlet is the play I'm most familiar with. I've only seen Macbeth once or twice, but it's so much more interesting than Hamlet - full of sound and fury and actually signifying quite a lot.
The first time I saw it I was really favourably impressed and I've had quite the soft spot for it ever since. Patrick has further distilled the story, given it modern language and his enthusiasm for the whole thing infects the audience. You can't help but be impressed.
2-4-1 Sessions for Fringe Friends are available. Highly recommended and
there are sessions on every night from now until the end of Fringeworld Perth.
10/10 Ebullient and a solar powered filigree steampunk wrist television on the Sid and Nancy Scale. Everyone should have one!
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/30-minute-macbeth-fw2018
Sunday, 18 February 2018
We saw Hands Some Feet briefly in a taster during the Showman's Dinner, where at 7pm in the Urban Orchard performers...
We saw Hands Some Feet briefly in a taster during the Showman's Dinner, where at 7pm in the Urban Orchard performers get on the table and demonstrate some of their show, or something else or their abilities.
I've never seen anybody juggling ~with someone else's hands~ before or behind their own back, so I was intrigued. This proved to be the mere snowflake at the tip of the iceberg.
The show is in the impressive Opticum at the Showman's Fair, and it's just about the sweetest and most lyrical use of juggling, music, skipping rope, wire and acrobatics I've ever seen. It's like a narrative symphony of beautiful human movement and it tells a story. It's all of a piece - flowing as naturally from one movement to another like a symphony - it's certainly hard to know when to applaud because you don't want to interrupt the story.
The two performers, Liisa Näykki and Jeromy Zwick, are in complete simpatico with one another during the performance, their interactions are entirely unaffected and naturalistic. A daring exploration totally out of the box with the more traditional forms of juggling and wire work.
See it, it's extraordinary and very sweet.
A word of warning though - the Showman's Dinner at 7:00 might detract from the gentle music of the performance (the Dinner show is LOUD) so go to the 6:00pm session if you can manage it. You can then go to the Showman's dinner afterward!
10 out of 10 poignant and on the Sid and Nancy Scale: Torville and Dean's Fire and Ice, if the ice were icecream, and the Fire hot chocolate and peppermint sauce.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/hands-some-feet-fw2018
I've never seen anybody juggling ~with someone else's hands~ before or behind their own back, so I was intrigued. This proved to be the mere snowflake at the tip of the iceberg.
The show is in the impressive Opticum at the Showman's Fair, and it's just about the sweetest and most lyrical use of juggling, music, skipping rope, wire and acrobatics I've ever seen. It's like a narrative symphony of beautiful human movement and it tells a story. It's all of a piece - flowing as naturally from one movement to another like a symphony - it's certainly hard to know when to applaud because you don't want to interrupt the story.
The two performers, Liisa Näykki and Jeromy Zwick, are in complete simpatico with one another during the performance, their interactions are entirely unaffected and naturalistic. A daring exploration totally out of the box with the more traditional forms of juggling and wire work.
See it, it's extraordinary and very sweet.
A word of warning though - the Showman's Dinner at 7:00 might detract from the gentle music of the performance (the Dinner show is LOUD) so go to the 6:00pm session if you can manage it. You can then go to the Showman's dinner afterward!
10 out of 10 poignant and on the Sid and Nancy Scale: Torville and Dean's Fire and Ice, if the ice were icecream, and the Fire hot chocolate and peppermint sauce.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/hands-some-feet-fw2018
So yesterday we rolled on down to the Icecream Factory and attended the premier of the Acapocalypse - the Fringe...
So yesterday we rolled on down to the Icecream Factory and attended the premier of the Acapocalypse - the Fringe season for them has ended, just the two shows - so The Baden Street Singers don't need me to drum up business for them right now, but you should know that they were excellent. The Edith Spiegeltent was full - the show was sold out on the Saturday, and I'm not surprised.
If you like A capella music then try to catch them - they're a large group and they're very accomplished and do various shows around the place. This was the story of two groups of singers competing for glory in the A capella finals, one Millenial, and one 80's. The amusing storyline of secret identities and romance (and live bees) kicked along jauntily as the carrier for some great numbers, and the highlight for me was the riff-off - an a cappella medley switching from Millenial to 80's and back with precision, passion and lovely voices.
Great singing, snappy costumes and good humour will have me looking for their other events with anticipation. #fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
10 out of 10 Impressive and finding the Philharmonic Orchestra is standing in as your mobile phone ringtone on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/acapocalypse-fw2018
If you like A capella music then try to catch them - they're a large group and they're very accomplished and do various shows around the place. This was the story of two groups of singers competing for glory in the A capella finals, one Millenial, and one 80's. The amusing storyline of secret identities and romance (and live bees) kicked along jauntily as the carrier for some great numbers, and the highlight for me was the riff-off - an a cappella medley switching from Millenial to 80's and back with precision, passion and lovely voices.
Great singing, snappy costumes and good humour will have me looking for their other events with anticipation. #fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
10 out of 10 Impressive and finding the Philharmonic Orchestra is standing in as your mobile phone ringtone on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/acapocalypse-fw2018
Sunday, 4 February 2018
The season has ended for this show at #fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth but Soothplayers deserve a huge mention...
The season has ended for this show at #fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth but Soothplayers deserve a huge mention for their hilarious ability to pick up on the most banal (or should that be anal?) suggestions from the audience. A medical student was chosen from the shouted suggestions "The Tribulations of Dyschezia" and after being prompted by the main Soothplayer for the meaning of the word, the Soothplayers let rip with a positive stream of fecund creativity.
Plop, John, Bucket and other characters fertilised our imagination with the terrible rivalry between two Mayors of towns linked by a river. Mylantia and Arnot, with a blockage in trade constipating the prosperity of both towns.
Although hilarious what's pretty darn cool about the whole thing are a) the whole thing is improvised and very immersive and b) the real Shakespeare tropes - disguises that anyone should be able to see through, letters, plots, kinda gravedigger scenes, misunderstandings and they're just throwing it all out there and it's very, very Shakespeare!
10 out of 10 Hilarious, and watching the cast of Clue performing The Scottish Play for laughs on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/completely-improvised-shakespeare-fw2018
Plop, John, Bucket and other characters fertilised our imagination with the terrible rivalry between two Mayors of towns linked by a river. Mylantia and Arnot, with a blockage in trade constipating the prosperity of both towns.
Although hilarious what's pretty darn cool about the whole thing are a) the whole thing is improvised and very immersive and b) the real Shakespeare tropes - disguises that anyone should be able to see through, letters, plots, kinda gravedigger scenes, misunderstandings and they're just throwing it all out there and it's very, very Shakespeare!
10 out of 10 Hilarious, and watching the cast of Clue performing The Scottish Play for laughs on the Sid and Nancy Scale.
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/completely-improvised-shakespeare-fw2018
Friday, 2 February 2018
If you're in the city around 5:00pm tonight, look out for the huge busking event that will be running from tonight,...
If you're in the city around 5:00pm tonight, look out for the huge busking event that will be running from tonight, and Saturday and Sunday at various stages around the city.
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/hubs/city-of-perth-fringe-world-buskers-weekender
#fringeworld #fringeworld2018 #perth
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/hubs/city-of-perth-fringe-world-buskers-weekender
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