Last night for Boorna Waanginy!
There's gonna be shuttle buses from Yagan Square every five minutes from 6:30, according to Transperth. We're gonna have curry at the Urban Orchard - opposite the Art Gallery and see how we're going. It's probably going to be most crowded when the gates open up at Kara Kada (Kings Park) at 7:30/8:00 so perhaps we'll not rush up there. The last people are let through at 10:00pm but we'll probably aim for earlier than that.
Anyone else interested see you at the Urban Orchard.
Monday, 11 February 2019
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
Last night we saw The Adventures of The Improvised Sherlock Holmes.
Last night we saw The Adventures of The Improvised Sherlock Holmes. Suggestions from the audience are put into a hat, and the actors draw upon these and their improvisational skills to bring the story to life.
It was held at the Circus Theatro, whose airconditioning was not quite up to the hot East wind night, but paddle fans were supplied to stave off the worst of the temperature.
The Holmes and Watson duo were enjoying trying to trip each other up perhaps a shade more than was helpful to the coherency of the story - which I think was something like Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Greyhound Wolf - they only read it out once, and it was never repeated.
This was a fiendish plot involving Terry and his boss Bob Dog-Racer,(well there's nominative determinism for you, mused Holmes) and Madame Astor (formerly Astorover, losing the 0ver on the way from Russia) and the swapping of a greyhound, suddenly missing a paw.
"The game's a foot" opportunity was missed I'm sorry to say.
The actors were energetic and enthusiastic, and as they were dressed in full Victorian three piece suits for the most part, in this heat most commendable!
It was a funny show, and worth seeing. I would have liked to have seen a deeper knowledge of the original material displayed and more adherence to Sherlock's mannerisms, (you can do that and still be funny improvisation) but I've been spoiled by JeremyIrons's er Brett's, sorry, Sherlock and reading the stories over and over from a young age.
7/10 amusing. Sid & Nancy Scale: Sam Eagle doing soliloquies from Hamlet with Crazy Harry in the background, doing the punctuation with help from Gonzo's chickens.
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/adventures-of-the-improvised-sherlock-holmes-fw2019
It was held at the Circus Theatro, whose airconditioning was not quite up to the hot East wind night, but paddle fans were supplied to stave off the worst of the temperature.
The Holmes and Watson duo were enjoying trying to trip each other up perhaps a shade more than was helpful to the coherency of the story - which I think was something like Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Greyhound Wolf - they only read it out once, and it was never repeated.
This was a fiendish plot involving Terry and his boss Bob Dog-Racer,(well there's nominative determinism for you, mused Holmes) and Madame Astor (formerly Astorover, losing the 0ver on the way from Russia) and the swapping of a greyhound, suddenly missing a paw.
"The game's a foot" opportunity was missed I'm sorry to say.
The actors were energetic and enthusiastic, and as they were dressed in full Victorian three piece suits for the most part, in this heat most commendable!
It was a funny show, and worth seeing. I would have liked to have seen a deeper knowledge of the original material displayed and more adherence to Sherlock's mannerisms, (you can do that and still be funny improvisation) but I've been spoiled by Jeremy
7/10 amusing. Sid & Nancy Scale: Sam Eagle doing soliloquies from Hamlet with Crazy Harry in the background, doing the punctuation with help from Gonzo's chickens.
https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/adventures-of-the-improvised-sherlock-holmes-fw2019
Alrighty, we'll take a break tonight. Should be back on track next week.
Alrighty, we'll take a break tonight. Should be back on track next week.
We're down Elaine tonight. Given Rob and I have a very full weekend it'll be a pretty early night. We can talk about what people have in mind for the next adventure, work on administrivia, character creation or non lengthy board game or such, or we can have the night completely off.
It's WABA Mt Claremont tomorrow.
We're down Elaine tonight. Given Rob and I have a very full weekend it'll be a pretty early night. We can talk about what people have in mind for the next adventure, work on administrivia, character creation or non lengthy board game or such, or we can have the night completely off.
It's WABA Mt Claremont tomorrow.
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
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