WINTER ARTS SEASON 2012

WINTER 

ARTS 

SEASON 

2012 

THE HOTTEST GUIDE TO THE 

COOLEST SHOWS IN TOWN

FEATURES EDITOR 

Helen Winterton 

helen.winterton@wanews.com.au 

ARTS EDITOR (acting) 

William Yeoman 

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Lyn DiCiero, Lucy Gibson, Nina Levy, 

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CLIMATE 

of culture 

The temperatures outside are 

dropping but the City of Perth 

Winter Arts Season is ascending 

to new highs for 2012. This 

year will see our biggest Winter 

Arts Season ever with over 150 events from 

more than 60 participating arts organisations, 

businesses and independent artists. 

It is an exciting time for arts and culture 

in the city with new cultural experiences 

around every corner. This year’s program 

combines world-class home-grown talent with 

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the Museum of Modern Art and the Banff 

Mountain Film Festival. 

Our eighth Winter Arts Season promises 

cutting-edge concepts and world-class artists 

who will impress Perth audiences across all 

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dance, visual arts, poetry and cabaret. 

The program features talented locals such 

as Tim Winton, Lucy Durack and the WA 

Symphony Orchestra alongside emerging 

talent from the Western Australian Academy of 

Performing Arts and our WA Youth Orchestra. 

Why not combine all Perth has to offer 

into a fabulous night out with Friday night 

shopping, a pre-show meal at one of the city’s 

cosy restaurants or a drink at one of the many 

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The Winter Supper Club at the Perth 

Town Hall undercroft is a new event for 2012, 

offering the opportunity to sample a range of 

traditional European dishes and to meet some 

of the talented performers taking to the stages 

of Perth during this winter season. 

Winter Arts Season is the perfect 

opportunity to explore our new venues, 

galleries and boutiques that have chosen to be 

here. So resist the urge to stay at home every 

night this coming winter! 

I encourage everyone to come into the city 

to be entertained and inspired by the artists 

and performers that will make this year’s 

Winter Arts Season one to remember. Support 

our culture and arts and engage with your 

city and feel the love while experiencing the 

warmth of the 2012 season! 

LORD MAYOR LISA SCAFFIDI 

We’d like to thank these supporters who have helped 

make the City of Perth Winter Arts Season possible. 

Thank you to these organisations for helping present the City of Perth Winter Arts Season. 

1UP Microcinema • Art Gallery of Western Australia • ArtBank • Ausdance WA • Australian Chamber Orchestra • Australian Performing Arts Network 

Australian String Quartet • Barefaced Stories • Bell Shakespeare • Black Swan State Theatre Co. • Buzz Dance Theatre • CDP Theatre Producers 

Celebrate WA • Chinese Consulate Perth • Chuckles Comedy • Cinema Paradiso • Comedy Lounge • Creative Connections • Downstairs at The Maj 

Duet Entertainment • Ellington Jazz Club • Foodchain • FORM • Fremantle Chamber Orchestra • Gallery Central • Government House Foundation of WA 

His Majesty’s Theatre • Janus Entertainment • Japanese Consulate Perth • Laugh Resort Comedy Club • Made on the Left • Museum of Performing Arts 

Musica Viva • NAIDOC Perth • Northbridge Piazza • Perth Centre for Photography • Perth Concert Hall • Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts • Perth Jazz Society 

Perth Theatre Company • Perth Theatre Trust • Scitech • St George’s Cathedral • State Library of Western Australia • State Theatre Centre of WA 

STRUT Dance • Sugar Blue Burlesque • Sydney Theatre Company • The Army Museum of WA Foundation • The Bakery Artrage Complex • The Blue Room Theatre 

The Comedy Shack • Theatreworks • Tura New Music • Underground Cabaret • UWA Cultural Precint • Venn Gallery • Voyces Inc • WA Poets Inc 

WA Youth Jazz Orchestra • WA Youth Orchestra • WA Youth Theatre Company • West Australian Academy of Performing Arts • West Australian Museum 

West Australian Music Industry Association • West Australian Opera • West Australian Symphony Orchestra • World Expeditions • Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company

MUSIC VISUAL ART FILM THEATRE 

From the hot bands of 

the WAMi Festival and 

the cool blues of the 

Ellington Jazz Fest to the 

sophisticated cabaret 

of Lucy Durack and the 

surf-inspired classical of 

the Australian Chamber 

Orchestra, this winter 

Perth will ring with a range 

of music to suit every taste 

and pocket. 

COMEDY DANCE FAMILY LITERATURE 

They say laughter’s the 

best medicine. So if you’re 

suffering a cold this 

winter forget the cough 

medicine and head out to 

some of Perth's hottest 

comedy venues to catch 

a comedian or three. 

International comedy 

sensations include Gavin 

Webster, Ian Coppinger 

and Vladimir McTavish 

in An Englishman, an 

Irishman and a Scotsman. 

If it’s blockbuster art 

exhibitions you’re after, 

the hot ticket this winter 

is most definitely at 

the Art Gallery of WA 

where, direct from The 

Museum of Modern Art in 

New York, the 140-work 

survey Picasso to Warhol: 

Fourteen Modern Masters 

will add some pizzazz to 

the dreary season. 

This winter Perth explodes 

in a frenzy of dance as the 

inaugural MoveMe dance 

festival, incorporating 

the Australian Dance 

Awards, presents a mix of 

reinterpreted classics such 

as STRUT dance’s sensual, 

sexual The Afternoon of 

a Faun and vibrant new 

works like Buzz Dance 

Theatre’s emotionally 

fraught Fragile. 

WHAT'S INSIDE 

Jemima Robinson has 

a word of warning for 

audience members at this 

year’s Banff Mountain 

Film Festival — what you 

are about to see could 

bring on a severe bout 

of wanderlust. Of course 

festival director Robinson 

doesn’t expect everyone 

to hurtle themselves down 

a crocodile-infested river 

in a kayak or paraglide 

off Everest… 

Forget baby chicks or 

cuddly lambs — during the 

July school holidays the 

WA Museum will be home 

to the world’s most unusual 

petting zoo. You’ll be able 

to feed a baby dinosaur 

and even pat a meat-eating 

giant. Just don’t forget to 

count your fingers when 

you’re done! Or maybe the 

delightful new children’s 

play The Gruffalo’s Child 

will be more to your tastes? 

Moliere is the French 

Shakespeare and his 

plays are just as rich a 

combination of comedy 

and tragedy. Australian 

thespian superstars the 

Bell Shakespeare Company 

bring Moliere’s School for 

Wives to Perth this year 

in a rare outing, making 

a nice contrast with local 

outfit Black Swan Theatre’s 

production of Tim Winton’s 

new play, Signs of Life. 

4-8 10-11 12-13 14-15 

Winter is traditionally 

a time for curling up 

with a good book. But 

performance can bring 

words alive like nothing 

else — especially when it’s 

acclaimed travel writer 

and novelist Stephen 

Scourfield reading 

from his latest book 

Unaccountable Hours as 

violinist Sophie Edelman 

performs the timeless 

music of JS Bach. 

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CITY OF PERTH WINTER ARTS SEASON��3

MUSIC CONTEMPORARY 

WENDY WERE PICTURE: IAIN GILLESPIE 

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Wendy Were has high 

hopes and big plans for 

the future of Perth’s live 

music scene. Simon Collins 

spoke to the new chief of 

the West Australian Music 

Industry Association. 

From pulling beers in the 

Perth pubs where John 

Butler and Jebediah cut 

their teeth to sharing her 

three-year-old daughter’s 

love of Fremantle pop tyros 

San Cisco, Wendy Were will bring a fan’s eye 

view to her new position as chief executive 

of the West Australian Music Industry 

Association, or WAM. 

Taking over from Paul Bodlovich, who was 

chief executive for a decade, Were also comes 

armed with invaluable knowledge of the 

creative industries, thanks to her previous 

roles directing the Perth and Sydney 

writers’ festivals as well as the University 

of WA’s Institute of Advanced Studies and 

the federally funded Creative Industries 

Innovation Centre. 

It’s moving beyond 

grassroots,” she said. 

“It’s a case of looking 

beyond a local community of 

music and looking globally. 

There’s glorious potential.” 

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charge, the UWA graduate made the bold 

assertion that WAM aims to transform Perth 

into the “live music capital of Australia”. 

“It’s an aspiration and I think there’s 

a lot of work to be done there, but it’s an 

important thing because it does cross the 

entire industry, not just the musicians,” Were 

said during a chat at Northbridge venue the 

Bakery, which will host several festival events 

including the 2012 WAMi Awards on June 2. 

An impressive line-up starring Eskimo Joe, 

John Butler, Mama Kin and Dom Mariani will 

perform at the annual gongs, where winners 

in industry and public voted categories 

take home the traditional WAMington cake 

instead of an inedible trophy. San Cisco, Split 

Seconds, the Voltaire Twins and the Growl 

lead the nominations this year.

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TOGETHER 

In addition to giving our best musicians 

a sugar high each year, the WAMi Festival 

features eight days of gigs, an industry 

conference and even a star-studded soccer 

match, the Crustacean Cup. On June 2, 

the Saturday Spectacular really takes the 

music to the masses with 56 bands playing 

eight stages throughout Northbridge from 

midday to 6pm. 

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has a really strong brand nationally and 

internationally as well,” Were said. “When 

you talk about the WAMis, most people know 

what you’re talking about and most people 

think that’s all WAM does because it’s such a 

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WAM is not just about supporting 

musicians, but also managers — a “core 

focus” of the organisation under 

Were — and other industry 

professionals. 

“Certainly, we’re there to 

foster creativity but we can’t 

endow people with that artistic 

brilliance,” she says. “We’re 

there to provide the structure 

and the support so those 

people with that brilliance 

can go as far as they possibly 

can and make a living out of 

the industry.” 

Where two decades 

ago it was a big 

deal when local 

experimental rock 

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Prague released a 

cassette for their 

coterie, now nascent 

Perth acts like Pond 

and Grace Woodroofe, 

right, receive rave 

reviews in overseas 

publications, such as 

the NME (which recently 

gave Pond’s latest album 

nine out of 10) and the New 

York Times (rock critic Jon 

Pareles gushed over Woodroofe’s debut). 

The new chief executive recalls working 

at the Swanbourne and Grosvenor Hotels, 

where she saw early gigs from Jebediah 

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education just from those two venues,” 

Were says. 

Both pubs no longer host bands and while 

Perth punters have enjoyed a boom in small 

bars, only a few, including the Bird and the 

Ellington Jazz Club, host live original music. 

Via advocacy and lobbying, Were says 

WAM “needs to make sure that there is space 

for the local music to be heard”. 

A fan of local acts the Ghost Hotel, Felicity 

Groom, Abbe May and, of course, San 

Cisco, the married mother-of-two said she 

inherited a strong organisation with a few 

areas needing improvement. 

Were wants to make 

WAM less reliant on public 

funding through business 

development and corporate 

sponsorship (perhaps 

increasing the mining 

sector’s ongoing support of 

WAM’s regional programs), 

while the marketing and 

communication also 

need to be more “polished 

and professional”. 

The online presence 

of WAM needs to be a 

“platform and portal for 

people all over the world” 

— part of a new global 

approach from the new 

chief, who says all avenues 

of revenue and exposure 

should be explored. 

“It’s moving 

beyond grassroots,” 

she said. “It’s a case 

of looking beyond 

a local community 

of music and looking 

globally. There’s 

glorious potential.” 

2012 WAMI FESTIVAL 

AT A GLANCE 

OPENING PARTY — Tomas Ford, Ben 

Witt, MmHmmm, Cow Parade Cow, Felicity 

Groom and Rainy Day Women, 

the Bakery, May 26 

SUNDAY LIVE AND THE CRUSTACEAN 

CUP — Grace Barbe, Odette Mercy and Her 

Soul Atomics, Minute 36, Datura and more, 

Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge Piazza, 

Forrest Place and Russell Square, May 27 

MUSIC FILM SCREENING, 

Northbridge Piazza, May 27 

THE COMMUNITY BEAT CANTEEN — 

Diger Rockwell, the Empty Cup, Naik, 

Wisdom 2th and YELM, 

Northbridge Piazza, May 28-June 1 

THE BIRD SUNDOWNER SERIES — 

James Teague, Simone & Girfunkle, 

Cameron Avery and Anton Franc, 

the Bird, May 28-June 1 

LUNCHTIME MALL SESSIONS, 

Murray and Hay St Malls, May 28-June 1 

JAZZWA SHOWCASE — Victoria Newton, 

the Glyn MacDonald Quartet and Horizon 

Art Orchestra, the Bakery, May 28 

EXPERIMENTAL SHOWCASE — 

Heytesburg, Rack to Your Face and Usurper 

of Modern Medicine, the Bakery, May 29 

FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL SHOWCASE — 

Ensemble Formidable, Rhys Wood and Rachel 

& Henry Climb a Hill, the Bakery, May 30 

JUMPCLIMB PARTY SHOWCASE — the 

Empty Cup, Sunshine Brothers, Bastian’s 

Happy Flight and Sam Perry, 

the Bakery, May 31 

BUSINESS CONFERENCE, the Bakery, June 1 

WIRE MAG SHOWCASE — Split Seconds, 

Emperors, Ruby Boots and Warning Birds, 

the Bakery, June 1 

SOUNDWORKS SHOWCASE — Paradise 

in Exile, Refl ections of Ruin and Malignant 

Monster, Rocket Room, June 1 

THE COMMUNITY SHOWCASE — James 

Ireland, Diger Rockwell, Assembly Line, 

the Boost Hero Man, Lowaski and Mostark, 

Ya Ya’s, June 1 

GUN FEVER SHOWCASE — Kill Teen 

Angst, Coveleski, Ex-Nuns, Dead Owls and 

Grim Fanbanjo, Beat Nightclub, June 1 

SATURDAY SPECTACULAR — 56 bands, 

eight stages, Northbridge, June 2 

WAMI AWARDS — Eskimo Joe, John Butler, 

Mama Kin, Dom Mariana and the Hurricane 

Fighter Plane, the Bakery, June 2 

CLOSING PARTY — Sonpsilo Circus, 

the Chemist, Voltaire Twins, San Cisco, 

the Bakery, June 2 


MUSIC CLASSICAL 

Surf, 

sand 

and 

Winter is party season in the classical music scene, 

with several of Perth’s classical music organisations 

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Tura New Music is hosting a 25th birthday party 

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broadest music organisation is celebrating its quarter century by inviting 

the prestigious Australian Chamber Orchestra, world-class surfers, local 

musicians, school students and a photographer to Gnaraloo Bay for a project 

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The linchpin in the adventurous project is composer 

Iain Grandage, originally from Perth, who has drawn 

on his experiences as an improvising artist, a theatre 

composer and his collaborations with indigenous 

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“The aim will be to create a collaborative media piece 

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Earlier this month Grandage joined ACO director 

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and pro-surfers Derek Hynd and Tom Carroll for a 

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young musicians of ACO2 joined with Broome singer 

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Geraldton school students, and a performance at Gnaraloo 

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Grandage’s composition links music by George Crumb and Dmitri 

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Surfers and students joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra at Gnaraloo 

Bay for a 10-day residency, writes Rosalind Appleby 


AT A GLANCE 

THE REEF, Perth Concert 

Hall, July 18 

TAKACS QUARTET, Perth 

Concert Hall, June 19 

VERBITSKY’S 25TH 

ANNIVERSARY GALA, 

WA Symphony Orchestra, 

Perth Concert Hall 

June 23-24 

LUCIA DI 

LAMMERMOOR, WA 

Opera, His Majesty’s 

Theatre, July 14-21 

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hearted Russian maestro will give concerts in May and June and a gala concert 

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Verbitsky will also continue his association with the WA Youth Orchestra with a 

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Or you could opt for the champagne and chandeliers of His Majesty’s Theatre 

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tissues because Emma Matthews stars as Lucia and her 

interpretation of Donizetti’s tragic mad scene will pierce 

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operatic focus with WA Opera Young Artists performing 

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element with cinematic screenings of the Metropolitan 

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Robert Lepage’s ambitious new staging of the four operas 

will screen from June to August at Cinema Paradiso in 

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In the chamber music scene there seems to be a concert 

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Perth in June with a program including Dean’s Epitaphs 

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Amacord, the a cappella group touring in July who have 

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The choral music continues in August with an all-Baroque 

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There’s plenty of smaller and just as interesting gigs around town too, 

including a concert of guitar music at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery to 

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has curated a concert with his ensemble, which will feature musical portraits 

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party begin!

KEEPING 

the BEAT 

Like many young musicians, pianist Barney 

McAll was drawn to the dim lights, jazz clubs 

and recording studios of New York 15 years ago. 

Unlike many musicians, however, he has stayed 

on — making his career and home in New York’s heady 

atmosphere of the jazz arts. 

The Melbourne-raised graduate of the Victorian 

College of the Arts was the pianist of choice for 

Australian artists before he left and he has become a 

sought-after artist in his new home since arriving in 

1997. Early in his career he accompanied artists such as 

Vince Jones, Renee Geyer and Kate Ceberano. 

Accepting an invitation to join the Gary Bartz 

Quartet, he toured with the American saxophonist 

across the US and internationally. He has also played 

with Fred Wesley, Josh Roseman and other emerging 

young artists on the US scene. 

As his American career expanded McAll moved into 

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up with a host of talented musicians for concert tours. 

He was nominated for a Grammy award in 2007 and 

won a fellowship from the Australia Council in 2008. 

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artists featuring at Ellington’s, Perth’s premier jazz 

venue, during the winter arts season. 

Another New York resident is bassist Bob Hurst, 

who also maintains a home in Los Angeles so that his 

career can literally cross the country. 

Listen to [Kyle's] debut 

album Possibilities and 

you will get an idea of his 

precocious talents and shrewd 

choice of material that ranges 

from pulsing and infectious 

tunes to the stylishly 

sophisticated ballad.” 

Hurst is a well-recognised composer, recording 

artist and jazz educator recently appointed associate 

professor at the University of Michigan’s school of 

music, theatre and dance in Ann Arbor. 

As a performer he has teamed with artists as diverse 

as Sting, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, 

Dave Brubeck and Harry Connick Jr. His accolades 

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recognition on top 10 lists around the world. 

For nearly a decade he directed, arranged and 

composed for Jay Leno’s Tonight show, and has scored 

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Eleven and its sequels, and Goodnight and Good Luck. 

Barney McAll is the first in a series 

of highly credentialed artists who 

will sing, play, entertain and educate 

at Ellington’s writes Ron Banks 

As a jazz educator he has taught at major institutions 

such as the Juilliard School of Music, the Thelonious 

Monk Institute, the Dave Brubeck Institute and the 

Stanford Jazz Workshop and Festival. 

Hurst will perform at Ellington’s in a trio setting 

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Melbourne singer Josh Kyle relocated to London last 

year, a bold move designed to kickstart an international 

career that is already paying off. This vibrant young 

vocalist has all the electricity of a Jamie Cullum, and a 

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a new star. 

Listen to his debut album Possibilities and you will 

get an idea of his precocious talents and shrewd choice 

of material that ranges from pulsing and infectious 

tunes to the stylishly sophisticated ballad. 

Kyle deserves to draw a big crowd to his Ellington 

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He has already won heaps of praise in the UK, a 

tough market to crack, and his future on the wider 

scene seems assured. As one commentator observed: 

“Josh Kyle’s unfailingly beautiful tone, crystal clear 

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with a real jazz sensibility.” 

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scene who has performed in his home city for 20 years, 

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Brothers, Medicinal Purposes, SCQUINT, Eff Sharp 

and the Theory of Nostrils. 

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and New York, which laid the foundations for his 

powerful improvising and compositional style which 

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AT A GLANCE 

ELLINGTON WINTER 

JAZZ FEST, Ellington Jazz 

Club, May 27-June 6 

TIM FREEDMAN'S 

FIRESIDE CHAT, 

Ellington Jazz Club, 

June 14-16 

MUSIC JAZZ 

NADIA ACKERMAN, 


June 27 

TROY ROBERTS, Ellington 

Jazz Club, July 19 

NERISSA CAMPBELL, 


July 27-28 

GEORGE GARZONE, 


August 24-25 


MUSIC CABARET 

NEW DOORS 

Two exciting young performers return to Perth to present another of their entertaining 

shows, with Lucy Durack describing it as “a little more sophisticated”. Ron Banks reports. 

It’s been four years since 

singer Lucy Durack and 

her musical collaborator 

Matthew Robinson 

performed at DownStairs 

at the Maj. 

In those four years quite a lot has 

happened to boost their careers. 

Durack spent more than a year 

playing Glinda the Good Witch in 

the musical, Wicked, while Robinson 

had a musical produced in Adelaide, 

another one commissioned by the 

same theatre company, and spent 

time in New York on a Churchill 

Fellowship with celebrated composer 

Stephen Schwartz, the writer of 

Wicked and many other musicals. 

Durack and Robinson’s return 

visit to DownStairs at the Maj, which 

will be their fourth in the past seven 

years, is a chance to distil some of that 

career-building experience of the past 

four years into a tight entertainment 

package especially for cabaret 

audiences. 

To underline their more recent 

experience, the duo has called the 

show Opening Doors. “A few doors 

have been opened to both of us 

recently, so we thought it would be a 

good title,” says Durack with obvious 

enthusiasm. 

“The show is slightly 

autobiographical, at least in a 

philosophical sense, as we play what 

could be described as heightened 

versions of ourselves as the people 

on stage. Neither of us has the 

personal experience of say, a singer 

like Toni Lamond, or Judi Connelli, 

but because a lot has happened to 

us recently we’ve been learning 

very quickly.” 

Cabaret fans of DownStairs at the 

Maj may recall that in the past Durack 


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MATTHEW ROBINSON AND LUCY DURACK

and Robinson have presented 

Robinson’s music in their shows, 

including Immaculate Confection 

and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. 

“This time we will be 

presenting mostly music written 

by Matthew since our last visit,” 

says Durack. “It’s now a little more 

sophisticated, and DownStairs at 

the Maj is the perfect venue for our 

kind of music with its intimacy.” 

While in Perth, Robinson will 

workshop his latest musical with 

students from the WA Academy of 

Performing Arts. “It’s more epic 

in nature and needs a bigger cast 

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a graduate of WAAPA’s music 

theatre course. 

DownStairs 

at the Maj is 

the perfect venue 

for our kind of 

music with 

its intimacy.” 

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Durack will spend most of 

June at home in Perth, with 

performances not only DownStairs 

at the Maj but also at the Perth 

Concert Hall. With a cast of young 

performers, she will headline a 

show of songs from musicals such 

as Wicked, Hairspray, Carousel 

and Rent on June 10. 

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Sydney, now her home base, to put 

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album — a collection of songs from 

the world of music theatre. 

It would seem enough work to 

keep a girl busy, but that’s not the 

half of it. She has just spent the 

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that landed her the lead role in the 

Australian premiere of Legally 

Blonde, the musical version of the 

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young lawyer, Elle Woods, who is 

much sharper than she seems. 

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that I would be getting the role,” 

Durack says. “They called me back 

for auditions three times, and then 

I had to go to London to see the 

show and talk to the creative team 

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AT A GLANCE 

CABARET SOIREE: 

OPENING DOORs, 

DownStairs at The Maj, 

June 20-23 


GUY/DOLL, DownStairs 

at The Maj, June 27-30 


WELL SWUNG, 


July 4-7 


TWO WEEKS IN 

PARIS, DownStairs at 

The Maj, July 11-14 


KITCHMAS IN JULY, 


July 18-21 

SPOTLIGHT @ THE 

KINGS, Underground 

Cabaret, Kings Hotel 

Perth, June 16 

SONGS FOR A NEW 

WORLD, Underground 

Cabaret, Kings Hotel 

Perth June 27-30 

PAUL PEACOCK’S 

OPEN MIC NIGHT 

WITH TIM HOWE, 

Underground Cabaret, 

Kings Hotel Perth, 

July 7 

BLACK MARKET 

CABARET Sugar Blue 

Burlesque The Bakery 

Artrage Complex, 

June 20 

Rehearsals for the Australian 

production will begin in August, 

before opening at the Lyric Theatre 

at Star Casino in Sydney on 

October 4. 

Durack has also kept herself 

busy with small roles in a telemovie 

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No doubt the really big stuff is 

coming with Legally Blonde, but 

audiences will get to see her up 

close and personal in the Maj’s 

intimate basement theatre.

VISUAL ART 

Modern 

MASTERS 

MoMA show of 140 works is the first of six booked 

for the Art Gallery of WA, writes Lyn Diciero 


PABLO PICASSO, GREEN STILL LIFE (1914) 

The hot ticket this winter is most 

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Dog (1905) through to later works such as Woman 

by a Window (1956). Andy Warhol is spectacularly 

represented with the entire series of 32 Campbell Soup 

Cans on show, together with his equally famous Brillo 

Boxes, and a nine-canvas silkscreen self-portrait. Also 

included is Fernand Leger’s stunning Big Julie (1945), 

Fauvist works by Matisse, Mondrian’s celebrated 

Trafalgar Square, and a 1926 six-minute black-and- 

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Jewellery and major mobiles by Alexander Calder, 

together with sculpture by Brancusi, add a celebration 

of economy of design. Perhaps less known in Australia 

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woman to be honoured with a retrospective at MoMA 

in 1982. 

Carboni says the show isn’t only about bringing crowdpleasing 

Picassos or Warhols to Perth. “This is a way to 

educate the public in understanding 20th century art 

before pop art basically, seen through its major artists.” 

It’s very different from what 

we have done in the past, and 

what other galleries in Australia do, 

and it’s something I’m very 

proud of.” STEFANO CARBONI 

With Picasso to Warhol closing in December and 

a new exhibition from MoMA opening in January, the 

gap between the major shows is a mere six to seven 

weeks for the next three years. Carboni says he wants 

to create a fast rhythm so people feel compelled to come 

back and see the next exhibition. “It’s very different 

from what we have done in the past, and what other 

galleries in Australia do, and it’s something I’m very 

proud of. It’s the biggest thing this gallery has ever 

done, so we need the public to respond to it,” adding 

with a chuckle, “otherwise I’m going to be in trouble!” 

Carboni says both he and MoMA director Glenn 

D. Lowry had common ground in both being former 

curators of Islamic art. “I’ve known him for a while, and 

for one reason or another he’s followed my career, so 

I felt comfortable in asking him about loaning works. 

He saw Perth as ideally located to position MoMA to be 

more known in Australasia, which I think is very smart 

on his part.” 

AT A GLANCE 

PICASSO TO WARHOL: 

FOURTEEN MODERN 

MASTERS, Art Gallery of 

WA, June 16-December 3 

JEFF WALL: 

PHOTOGRAPHS, 

Art Gallery of WA, 

May 26-September 10 

PATRICK DOHERTY 

TALES OF HIERARCHY, 

Venn Gallery, 

May 4-June 8 

APACHE CLIP AWARD 

2012, Perth Centre 

for Photography, 

May 24-June 24 

BEYOND LIKE-NESS: 

CONTEMPORARY 

PORTRAITURE, 

Lawrence Wilson Art 

Gallery, May 25-July 28 

OBJECTS. FOOD. 

ROOMS. Perth Institute 

of Contemporary Arts, 

June 23-August 12 

THE MOORDITJ 

YARNING ART 

EXHIBITION 2012: 

RELATIONSHIPS 

AUSTRALIA, Perth Town 

Hall, June 28-July 2 

ST GEORGE’S ART 

2012: 10TH ANNUAL 

EXHIBITION, St 

George's Cathedral, 

July 21-August 2 

METAMORPHOSIS 

2012, Gallery Central, 

August 13-24 

ANDY WARHOL, SELF-PORTRAIT (1966) 

While Carboni and MoMA are still thrashing out 

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reveal the second in the series is a survey of New York 

seen through the lenses of major photographers. To 

follow are exhibitions focusing on post-Impressionism, 

contemporary art and kitchenware design. Mooted 

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Planned is a smaller, more intimate show, but with key, 

extremely well-known works. “I’m not saying Starry 

Night is coming, but two major Van Goghs will be 

coming,” he says. 

Carboni’s excitement is infectious. It’s not a far 

stretch to imagine an eager young Venetian boy, 

whose father had a degree in art history, being taken 

around the galleries and museums of Venice viewing 

everything from Byzantine to contemporary art. In a 

sense the exhibitions transplant the magic. “My father 

also went to the Biennale of course, so being exposed to 

so many different things probably made me feel it was 

fun. Through the exhibitions I hope to inspire children 

as well, not to be afraid of looking at art, to feel you have 

a relationship with what you have in front of you, and 

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LEFT TO RIGHT 

JACKSON 

POLLOCK, 

SHIMMERING 

SUBSTANCE (1946) 

FERNAND LIGER, 

BIG JULIE (1945) 

GIORGIO DE 

CHIRICO, THE SONG 

OF LOVE (1914) 


FILM 

AT A GLANCE 

BANFF MOUNTAIN 

FILM FESTIVAL 2012, 

State Theatre Centre, 

May 30-June 2 

METROPOLITAN OPERA 

IN HD, Cinema Paradiso, 


OSCAR SHORTS 2012, 1UP 

Microcinema, June 6-10 

2012 SPANISH FILM 

FESTIVAL, Cinema 

Paradiso, July 19-25 

You might consider doing 

something way out of the 

ordinary after attending this 

event, as Lucy Gibson reports 

FESTIVAL OF THE 

EXTREME 


Jemima Robinson has a word of warning 

for audience members at this year’s 

Banff Mountain Film Festival — what 

you are about to see could bring on a 

severe bout of wanderlust. 

Of course festival director Robinson 

doesn’t expect everyone to hurtle themselves down 

a crocodile-infested river in a kayak or paraglide 

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Australian leg of the world-famous tour incite even just 

a cheer then her job is done. 

“We get a whole heap of reactions from people in the 

audience,” says Robinson of the international festival of 

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and the environment, which hits Perth later this month. 

“There will be people who come up to us and 

say they are quitting their job and heading to South 

America and others who say ‘No way would I do that’. 

“Either way, in each screening there are usually 

plenty of ‘ooohs’ and ‘ahhhs’ and clapping and we 

encourage that.” 

The Banff Film Festival began in the picturesque 

Canadian town in 1976 when 500 people lined up 

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250-seat theatre. 

As word spread, so too did the festival, which now 

attracts more than 300 entries from around the world 

each year and is held in 33 countries. 

It is Robinson’s job to select the best and most 

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November in Canada, to showcase as part of the 

Australian leg of the tour, which has been running for 

13 years: easier said than done when you only have a 

2½-hour window for each screening. 

Many Aussies have been to 

the destinations featured 

in the films and tried all these 

crazy sports.” JEMIMA ROBINSON 

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parts of putting the festival together,” she says. 

“However we are fortunate that by the time we get 

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times in America so I can go online and get all the 

audience feedback.” 

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of Australia, her fellow countrymen are a fairly 

well-travelled bunch, which makes them somewhat 

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“Many Aussies have been to the destinations featured 

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THE RING ON FILM 

The jewel in the crown of this year’s Metropolitan Opera 

Live in High Definition season must surely be visionary 

director Robert Lepage’s Met production of Wagner’s 

monumental Ring Cycle, screening at Luna Leederville and 

featuring some of today’s most outstanding opera singers 

including Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kaufmann. 

Also screening is 

the documentary 

Wagner’s Dream, 

a fly-on-the-wall 

look at the dayto-day 

challenges 

of staging such 

a massive work 

and “the quest 

to fulfil Wagner’s 

dream of a 

perfect Ring”. 

GUY / DOLL 

WED 27 TO SAT 30 JUN 

Featuring David Bowyer, 

Corinne Cowling, Julia 

Jenkins & Will O’Mahony 

Major Sponsors: 

CABARET 

SOIRÉE 2012 

DownStairs at the Maj 

20 JUN TO 21 JUL 

Every Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat 

WELL SWUNG 

WED 4 TO SAT 7 JUL 

‘My career is failing so I have 

to do a swing show’ 

Juicy jazz standards and 

bubblegum pop by 

Nick Christo. 

TWO WEEKS IN PARIS 


Analisa Bell takes us on a 

French musical journey with 

Edith Piaf & more. Oh la la. 

KITCHMAS IN JULY! 


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Book now at BOCS 9484 1133 

or bocsticketing.com.au 

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THEATRE 

Fun in the 

NUNNERY 

Bell brings Shakespeare’s French counterpart to Perth, writes Ron Banks 


Next to Shakespeare, Moliere is 

probably the most popular 

400-year-old playwright. His works 

continue to be performed and, 

like Shakespeare, Moliere’s classic 

comedies are timeless, capable of 

being manipulated into a modern shape that serves to 

accentuate their universal values and relevance. 

Take the case of School for Wives, one of the 

major works of Bell Shakespeare in this year’s winter 

arts festival. 

For a start, Moliere’s French rhyming couplets have 

been replaced by modern verse in an updating by Justin 

Fleming, who has anglicised the names of the characters. 

However, the setting remains a nunnery in which a 

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to become a virtuous wife with the kind of homely talents 

that will please a husband. 

It’s an old story that some men want to shape 

women to their will and control their destiny 

despite the advances of feminism in more 

modern times. Moliere knew this in 

the 17th century and his comedy 

just keeps on giving the 

pleasures of recognition. 

The School for Wives may 

be less well known than The 

Imaginary Invalid, Tartuffe, or 

The Misanthrope, but its battle 

of the sexes has the same 

pertinent themes of human 

frailty, lust and cupidity 

as its more celebrated 

companions. 

Arnolde is a man with 

a problem. He wants to get 

married but is afraid a smart 

girl would cheat on him. So 

he connives a plan to have 

the local convent raise a girl so 

stupidly innocent she won’t know 

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will remain faithful. 

So far so good, until the young woman 

meets a youth her own age who stirs lusty feelings 

in her otherwise innocent body. 

The School for Wives is one of those rare 

occasions where Bell Shakespeare has brought 

MOLIERE 

any author other than Shakespeare to 

Perth, and marks the 20-year-old company 

striking out into French comedy territory, 

yet with the same classical entertainment and 

satirical values. 

Director Lee Lewis says the play is “a 

comedic train-wreck of a love story that 

angles innocence with arrogance — and the 

other way round”. 

We want the perfect 

partner: smart, 

sexy, healthy, funny and 

hopefully from 

‘good stock’.” LEE LEWIS 

In modern terms, she says, the play is 

asking the question of whether we are all 

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destiny. “We want the perfect 

partner: smart, sexy, healthy, 

funny and hopefully from 

‘good stock’. But can 

we design a life for 

ourselves and have it 

all go to plan?” 

The playing 

out of this 

comedy scenario 

would suggest 

controlling 

someone else’s 

emotions and 

behaviour is just 

too much to wish for. 

A world away from 

Moliere’s light touch, but 

nonetheless focused on human 

emotions and the drama of 

contemporary life, is Tim Winton’s 

new play Signs of Life, which draws 

on some of the characters from his novel 

Dirt Music. 

The setting is the Moore River region north of 

Perth where Georgie Jutland (the central character 

from Dirt Music) lives alone in her farm house.

Helen Morse plays the recently widowed Georgie, 

a little spooked by the isolation. Out in the darkness 

of her veranda is an Aboriginal man (Ernie Dingo) 

seeking help. He says he needs petrol. His sister is 

screaming and they’ve been sleeping in their car 

for days. 

Should she help them? What if they move 

in to her farmhouse and will not leave? How 

do you share your house with strangers? 

These are the questions Signs of Life attempts 

to resolve, or at least 

grapple with, in Winton’s 

terse, enigmatic style. 

As Black Swan Theatre’s 

publicity for its new show 

outlines, Signs of Life is 

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themselves forming awkward, 

spiky alliances in order to survive. 

Bell Shakespeare and Black 

Swan are two of the biggest 

companies to produce shows 

during the winter season, but 

there are plenty of smaller gems 

to enjoy, too. 

AT A GLANCE 

THE SCHOOL FOR 

WIVES, State Theatre 

July 11-14 

SIGNS OF LIFE, 

State Theatre, 

July 21-August 18 

MADAME BALLET, 

State Theatre Centre 

of WA, June 5-17 

LES AFFREUX, 

The Blue Room Theatre 

until June 9 

HELLO MY NAME IS… 

The Blue Room Theatre, 

June 14-30 (previews 

June 12-13) 

SONGS FOR 

NOBODIES, State 

Theatre, June 22-July 1 

LEE LEWIS 

From Melbourne comes Nicola Gunn’s show Hello, My 

Name Is… which is all about building communities. 

“I am interested in making a participatory work 

where the audience feel they are a part of something 

without performing,” Gunn explains. “Transforming 

the performance into something intricate, sublime and 

unexpected; transforming the world as it is, to the world as 

it could be.” 

Perhaps even more intriguing is the debut of new 

theatre company Spectre, whose Les Affreux (The 

Frightful Ones) is a thriller about a 

journalist returning from the Arab 

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forces at work to punish him for his 

participation in that event. 

Writer-director Wade K. Savage says 

his dark and intricate story is laced with 

themes of submission and domination. 

Another solo work is Bernadette 

Robinson’s Songs for Nobodies, in which 

the Melbourne music theatre singer and 

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such as maids and servants. The show 

has been a huge success on the east 

coast, and plans are under way to take it 

to Broadway. 

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Book Now!

COMEDY 

An Englishman, an Irishman 

and a Scotsman is expected to 

be such a hit that it has been 

moved to a bigger venue, as 

Rob Payne reports 

TRIPLE THE laughs 

English stand-up comedian Gavin 

Webster isn’t changing his style for 

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the Eastern States, Singapore and 

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[Ian 

Coppinger 

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I’ve seen, 

and I’ve 

seen 

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MCALLISTER 

focused on 2012, which sees Webster paired with 

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steeped in Scottish lore, including The Top 50 Scots of 

All Time and A Scottish History of the World. He’s also 

renowned for a single joke requiring him to consume 

two pints and a shot of whisky. 

Meanwhile, Ireland’s Coppinger doesn’t dodge any 

stereotypes, spinning rich comic yarns about rural 

Berties and imbibing Bobs. 

“He’s the funniest Irish guy I’ve seen, and I’ve seen 

them all,” McAllister says. 

While An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman 

tops the bill of the Perth winter comedy season, there’s 

lots on offer, a fact Laugh Resort co-ordinator Alex 

Manfrin points out with pride. 

“There’s comedy on just about every night, making 

it more than just an occasional option for people. It has 

become a regular part of what you can do in Perth — 

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Now in its 21st year, the Laugh Resort is the city’s 

comedy pioneer. The night runs every Wednesday at 

Rosie O’Grady’s and features two local or national 

stand-ups followed by an open mic segment. Upcoming 

comics include Paul “Werzel” Montague, Mike G, 

Emma Zammit, Tien Tran and Bonnie Davies. 

Other regular nights include The Comedy Shack on 

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Murray Street and Chuckles Comedy Gong Night on the 

last Monday of the month at Northbridge’s Elephant & 

Wheelbarrow. Gong Night lets you decide who is funny 

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on stage. 

And if global warming and photosynthesis crack 

you up, check out the Scitech Comedy Debate. 

Promising witty banter, scintillating science and 

lively disputes, the night promises stand-ups, media 

personalities and science communicators going 

head-to-bespectacled head. 

AT A GLANCE 

AN ENGLISHMAN, 

AN IRISHMAN AND A 

SCOTSMAN, Comedy 

Lounge & EIS Riverside 

Theatre, July 14 

COMEDY SHACK, 

The Burger Shack 


LAUGH RESORT 

COMEDY CLUB, Rosie 

O’Grady’s Northbridge, 


CHUCKLES COMEDY 

GONG NIGHT, Elephant 

& Wheelbarrow, 


BAREFACED 

STORIES, The Bird, 


SCITECH COMEDY 

DEBATE, Scitech 

Discovery Centre, 

August 14 


DANCE 

CONFRONTING 

steps 


Perth-born dancer James O’Hara 

returns to his home town for a 

dance festival to perform the 

sensuous work, Faun, based on a 

Ballets Russes work presented a 

century ago. Nina Levy reports. 

There’s nothing like a scandal to get 

bums on seats, as Sergei Diaghilev 

discovered 100 years ago. 

In 1912, Diaghilev’s famed 

Ballets Russes presented Vaslav 

Nijinsky’s L’Apres-midi d’un faune 

(The Afternoon of a Faun), created to Claude Debussy’s 

Prelude L’apres-midi d’un faune and based on Stephane 

Mallarme’s poem of the same name. The work was 

considered experimental because it rejected the 

turned-out legs and virtuosity of classical ballet and 

instead utilised angular and pedestrian movement. 

Its concluding moments, depicting sexual climax, 

prompted moral outrage, which in turn increased 

ticket sales. Never one to shy away from avant-garde 

ideas, this experience fuelled Diaghilev’s desire to 

commission works that would shock and provoke. 

Gradually we learnt to let 

go and abandon ourselves to 

the sexuality and sensuality of 

the work.” JAMES O’HARA 

It was Diaghilev’s desire to experiment that 

catapulted dance from the gauzy tutus of the Romantic 

era into the sharp-edged world of modern art. Central 

to his vision was artistic collaboration. Picasso, 

Stravinsky and Chanel are just some of the names of 

the Ballets Russes’ collaborators. 

Fast forward a century and Perth is about to see a 

contemporary interpretation of the seminal L’Apresmidi 

d’un faune. Created by internationally renowned 

Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the work 

is simply entitled Faun. 

Faun will play in Perth as half of a double bill 

presented by STRUT dance as part of the inaugural 

MoveMe dance festival. 

What is particularly pleasing about Cherkaoui’s 

Faun hitting WA is that one of the two performers 

in the work is Perth-born dancer, James O’Hara. An 

alumnus of John Curtin College of the Arts and STEPS 

Youth Dance Company, O’Hara was not yet 18 when he 

moved to Europe to pursue his dance career. He met 

Cherkaoui soon after. 

“I went to Geneva to join a young company for 17-26 

year olds,” he says. “I would often take class with the 

Ballet du Grande Theatre de Geneve, which is the 

main contemporary ballet company in Geneva. Larbi 

(Cherkaoui) was creating a work on the company. I had

a huge admiration for his work so I would hang back to 

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In Buzz Dance's Fragile, a young girl escapes into a world 

of her imagination with nothing but games and a whole 

pile of adventure. Incorporating puppetry, animation and 

visual design, Fragile shows how to cope with feelings 

and relationships. “I am very aware that today’s society is 

not always an easy place for children and young people 

to grow up in. There can be bullying at school, family 

relationship breakdowns, a barrage of visual stimulus, as 

well as the every day pressures that we all face. It can be a 

lonely and isolating place, where they feel a lack of control 

over their situation. The imagination is often a sanctuary, a 

place to learn to cope with situations and an escape from 

the difficulties of life,” artistic director Cadi McCarthy says. 

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MOVEME DANCE 

FESTIVAL, 

August 28-September 2 

FRAGILE, Buzz Dance 

Theatre, Dolphin Theatre, 

June 16-26 

BREAKING OUT, 

WAAPA, Dolphin Theatre, 

August 21-25 

AUSTRALIAN DANCE 

AWARDS, Ausdance WA, 

State Theatre Centre, 

September 1 


FAMILY 

Your chance to pat a 

DINOSAUR CITY 

Perth will be known as Dinosaur City during 

the winter months, with another prehistoric 

exhibition hitting town. Explore-a-saurus 

features animatronic versions of the 

world’s most famous dinosaurs including 

the Muttaburrasaurus and Tyrannosaurus 

rex. This interactive exhibition, developed 

by Scienceworks in Melbourne, will 

show how palaeontologists use fossil 

evidence to learn about these prehistoric 

creatures. Kids will be able to test their 

paleontological skills by uncovering fossils 

and bones, compare the types of food 

eaten by dinosaurs and examine insects 

under microscopes. 

GRUFFALO II 

One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s 

child ignores her father’s warning and 

creeps out into the snow. Surely nothing 

out there will scare her! If you loved The 

Gruffalo then you can’t miss the sequel, The 

Gruffalo’s Child. Once again the best-selling 

book has been adapted for the stage and 

will be heading to Perth for the Winter Arts 

Season. Songs, laughs and scary fun for 

children aged four and up. 


Perth will be home to one of the world’s most unusual petting zoos 

when dinosaurs hit town next month, as Heather Zubek reports 

Baby animal shows, 

petting zoos and 

travelling animal farms 

are constant features 

at fairs and community 

events. Somehow their 

popularity with the younger generation has 

survived the lure of electronic entertainment. 

During the July school holidays, the 

Western Australian Museum will be home to 

the world’s most unusual petting zoo. Forget 

baby chicks or cuddly lambs. At this petting 

zoo you will be able to feed a baby dinosaur 

and pat a meat-eating giant. Just don’t forget 

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audiences will be able to get up close and 

personal with creatures ranging from the 

cute dino babies to the teeth-gnashing giants 

of the prehistoric era. 

This show brings 

entertainment, 

education and science 

together.” MINISTER JOHN DAY 

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performance featuring a cast of actual-size 

dinosaur puppets brought to life by the 

innovative theatre company Erth Visual 

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visual theatre since 1990, incorporating 

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scale puppets into their performances. The 

company, based in Sydney, tours the globe 

and has performed at most major Australian 

and international festivals, including the 

Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, 

the Singapore Arts Festival and the Festival 

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involved in bringing physical theatre and 

puppetry into the museum environment here 

and overseas. 

Erth’s artistic director, Scott Wright, has 

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cool show that is presented as a live animal 

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incredibly life-like creatures are developed 

in consultation with palaeontologists and are 

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dinosaur fossils. 

The theatre company will bring their most 

recent additions to their dinosaur family 

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australovenator, reconstructed from the 

most complete skeleton of a meat-eating 

dinosaur found in Australia to date and 

the mighty titanosaurus, the long-necked 

dinosaur whose relatives were some of the 

heaviest creatures to walk the planet. 

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animal presentation. Each dinosaur has 

a story about where it came from, what it 

eats and how it moves. And they respond 

with the unpredictability and intelligence 

that you would expect from a prehistoric 

creature being controlled by a live performer. 

Children can approach the dinosaurs to pat, 

feed and interact with them, and as Scott 

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another example of the WA Museum’s 

commitment to providing dynamic and 

varied programs to engage all Western 

Australians,” says John Day, Minister for 

Culture and the Arts. 

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promises to be bigger and better, with a fulllength 

performance and more dinosaurs to 

entertain audiences.” 

AT A GLANCE 

DINOSAUR PETTING ZOO, WA 

Museum, July 7-22 

EXPLORE-A-SAURUS, Scitech 

Discovery Centre, May 31- 

August 21 

ACTORS BOOT CAMP, Western 

Australian Youth Theatre 

Company, July 9-13 

BIG TOP OLYMPICS, Forrest 

Place, July 9-21 

MOLECULAR ORIGAMI, 

Scitech Discovery Centre, 

August 15-19 

THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD, State 

Theatre Centre, August 21-28

DINOSAUR SPEED CIRCUS 

The Big Top Olympics is 

coming to town for the 

July school holidays! 

Bring the kids into 

Forrest Place this school 

holidays for The Big Top 

Olympics combining 

extreme sporting 

spectacles and hilarious 

circus acts into one 

side-splitting show. This 

high-energy, fast-paced 

performance introduces 

young audiences to an 

array of Olympic sports 

in a comical countdown 

against the clock.

LITERATURE 

VIRGINIA 

WARD, NOT 

INSTRUMENTS 

Direct, unadorned language, morning-crisp 

and fragrant with meaning, is as musical 

as the most baroque poetry that rings with 

rhyme and assonance. 

Such limpid language can be found in WA 

author and travel writer (or more properly “a 

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and Ethical Man. 

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maker of musical instruments in order to recapture something of 

the sound produced by his idol, Monica Erica Greenbaum as she 

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the age of eight and is a keen mandolin player. “So he has the ability 

to be innovative.” 

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his wife Margaret, an artist, and their 

daughter Spit, a gifted violinist who forges a 

career for herself as a member of the Bondlike 

all-girl string band, the Redheads. 

University of WA music student Sophie 

Edelman is a gifted violinist of a different 

kind, determined to forge a more conventional 

musical career while being interested in all 

aspects of historical performance practice. 

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THAT BIND 

Words, sound and sculpture are brought together as a writer reads from his novella about a 

luthier, inspired by a violinist performing Bach. William Yeoman reports. 


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My obsession is the reader,” he says. 

“I work for the reader, I believe in the 

one-on-one relationship with the reader.” 

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7 Carillon City 

8 Cinema Paradiso 

9 City Farm 

10 Council House 

11 Elephant & Wheelbarrow 

12 Ellington Jazz Club 

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16 Government House 

17 Grand Lane, Perth 

18 His Majesty’s Theatre 

19 Hyatt Regency Perth 

20 King St Arts Centre 

21 Kings Hotel Perth 

22 Lock Lane, Northbridge 

23 Northbridge Piazza 

24 Perth Centre for 

Photography 

25 Perth Concert Hall 

26 Perth Cultural Centre Screen 

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ART IS THE SOUL OF THE CITY 

If, as the poet Goethe said, architecture 

is frozen music, there’s nothing like 

the living music of the performing 

and visual arts to thaw out Perth’s clubs, 

small bars and laneways, historic theatres 

and churches, contemporary performing 

spaces, squares and cinemas and stately 

universities, libraries, museums and 

galleries over winter. 

More than that, the arts warms the 

hearts of a city’s workers and residents, 

giving them a new “architecture” based 

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29 Riverside Theatre, 

Perth Convention 

Exhibition Centre 

30 Rosie O’Grady’s Northbridge 

31 Scitech Discovery Centre 

32 St George’s Cathedral 

33 St Mary’s Cathedral 

34 State Library of WA 

35 State Theatre Centre of WA 

36 UWA 

37 Venn Gallery 

38 WA Museum 

on a new, more spacious view of the world 

— and a new, more generous view of 

each other. We need heritage-conscious 

urban renewal, yes; but we also need a 

complementary renewal of the spirit, and 

on a daily basis. 

This year’s City of Perth Winter Arts 

Season embraces both, off ering a soulnourishing 

blend of music, dance, theatre, 

comedy, fi lm, spoken word and visual 

art throughout some of Perth’s oldest 

and newest venues such as St George’s 

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POST-SHOW 

LOUNGE BARS 

A MONDAY 

Andaluz Bar & Tapas 

B TUESDAY 

The George 

C WEDNESDAY 

Venn Bar 

D THURSDAY 

Ya-Ya’s 

E SUNDAY 

Frisk Small Bar 

Cathedral and the Northbridge Piazza, His 

Majesty’s Theatre and the State Theatre 

Centre, the Perth Town Hall and Grand 

Lane, Council House and The Bird and 

The Ellington Jazz Club and The 1UP 

Microcinema. 

And to prolong the pleasure, offi cial 

Winter Arts Season post-show lounge 

bars Andaluz Bar & Tapas, The George, 

Venn Bar, Ya Ya’s and Frisk Small Bar 

provide the ideal environments for cosy 

late-night discussions. 


TURN UP THE HEAT. 

Your guide to the hottest 

City of Perth Winter Arts events. 

JUNE 

EVENT PRESENTER VENUE START END 

I (Honestly) Love You 

The Blue Room Theatre & Damon 

Lockwood 

The Blue Room Theatre 15-May 2-Jun 

Les Affreux 

The Blue Room Theatre & Spectre 

Theatre Co. 

The Blue Room Theatre 22-May 9-Jun 

Madame Ballet Janus Entertainment State Theatre Centre of WA 5-Jun 16-Jun 

Exhibition: The Importance Of Being 

Theatrical 

Museum of Performing Arts Downstairs at The Maj 11-Jun 31-Aug 

Hello my name is 

The Blue Room Theatre, Nichola 

Gunn & Theatreworks 

The Blue Room Theatre 12-Jun 23-Jun 

Actor’s Studio WAYouth Theatre Company King St Arts Centre 13-Jun 15-Aug 

Black As Michael Jackson… and Other 

Identity Monologues 

The Blue Room Theatre & Yirra 

Yaakin Theatre Co. 

Here’s a little colour key to help you navigate your way through 

all the fabulous events on offer over the winter months. 

The Blue Room Theatre 19-Jun 7-Jul 

Songs for Nobodies Duet Entertainment State Theatre Centre of WA 22-Jun 1-Jul 

It's Dark Outside Perth Theatre Company State Theatre Centre of WA 29-Jun 14-Jul 

Fragile Buzz Dance Theatre Dolphin Theatre, UWA 16-Jun 26-Jun 

Spotlight @ The Kings Underground Cabaret Kings Hotel Perth 16-Jun 16-Jun 

Cabaret Soiree: Opening Doors 

Perth Theatre Trust & Downstairs 

at The Maj 

His Majesty’s Theatre 20-Jun 23-Jun 

Black Market Cabaret Sugar Blue Burlesque The Bakery Artrage Complex 20-Jun 20-Jun 

Cabaret Soiree: Guy/Doll 


at The Maj 

His Majesty’s Theatre 27-Jun 30-Jun 

Songs for a New World Underground Cabaret Kings Hotel Perth 27-Jun 30-Jun 

THEATRE DANCE CABARET COMEDY MUSIC VISUAL ARTS FILM LITERATURE YOUTH 

& FAMILY

JUNE 

Music to warm the soul. 

Heating to warm everything else. 


Comedy Shack The Shack The Burger Shack 5-Jun 7-Aug 

The Laugh Resort Laugh Resort Comedy Club Rosie O’Grady’s Northbridge 6-Jun 29-Aug 

Chuckles Comedy Gong Night Chuckles Comedy Elephant & Wheelbarrow 25-Jun 27-Aug 

Barefaced Stories Barefaced Stories The Bird 26-Jun 28-Aug 

The Ellington Winter Jazz Fest Ellington Jazz Club Ellington Jazz Club 25-May 7-Jun 

WAMi Business Conference WAM The Bakery Artrage Complex 1-Jun 1-Jun 

The WIRE Mag WAMi Festival 

Showcase 

WAM The Bakery Artrage Complex 1-Jun 1-Jun 

Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 1-Jun 2-Jun 

WAMi Awards Ceremony WAM The Bakery Artrage Complex 2-Jun 2-Jun 

WAMi Festival Closing Party WAM, Triple J & RTR FM The Bakery Artrage Complex 2-Jun 2-Jun 

State of the Art Celebrate WA Perth Concert Hall 3-Jun 3-Jun 

Tina Arena with WASO WA Symphony Orchestra 

Riverside Theatre, Perth 

Convention Exhibition Centre 

8-Jun 8-Jun 

Sampology Super Visual Blockbuster The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 9-Jun 9-Jun 

Musicals in Concerts – Lucy Durack & 

Friends 

Australian Performing Arts 

Network 

Perth Concert Hall 10-Jun 10-Jun 

Music on the Terrace Government House Foundation Government House Ballroom 10-Jun 12-Aug 

Def FX The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 11-Jun 11-Jun 

Legacy Australian String Quartet Perth Concert Hall 11-Jun 11-Jun 

The Black Seeds The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 14-Jun 14-Jun 

Tim Freedman's Fireside Chat Ellington Jazz Club Ellington Jazz Club 14-Jun 16-Jun 

Tijuana Cartel The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 15-Jun 15-Jun 

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 15-Jun 16-Jun 

Hype Williams The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 16-Jun 16-Jun 

Concert: James Penberthy – 

A Retrospective 

Janus Entertainment Perth Town Hall 18-Jun 18-Jun 

Takács Quartet Musica Viva Perth Concert Hall 19-Jun 19-Jun 

Morning Melodies Opera Concert His Majesty’s Theatre His Majesty’s Theatre 20-Jun 20-Jun 

Verbitsky’s 25th Anniversary Gala WA Symphony Orchestra 

Tura New Music and Liquid 

Perth Concert Hall 23-Jun 24-Jun 

Antarctic Convergence 

Architecture National Sound Art 

Festival #13 

WA Museum 25-Jun 26-Jun 

Nadia Ackerman Ellington Jazz Club Ellington Jazz Club 27-Jun 27-Jun

JUNE 


Your Collection 1800 - today Art Gallery of WA Art Gallery of WA ongoing ongoing 

Patrick Doherty - Tales of Hierarchy Venn Gallery Venn Gallery 4-May 8-Jun 

Apache CLIP Award 2012 Perth Centre for Photography Perth Centre for Photography 24-May 24-Jun 

5�FNHQ¿JXU Perth Centre for Photography Perth Centre for Photography 24-May 24-Jun 

Gardens for the Blind Perth Centre for Photography Perth Centre for Photography 24-May 24-Jun 

Beyond Like-ness: contemporary 

portraiture 

UWA Cultural Precinct 

Julie Dowling: Family and Friends UWA Cultural Precinct 

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 

UWA 


UWA 

25-May 28-Jul 

25-May 28-Jul 

Jeff Wall Photographs Art Gallery of WA Art Gallery of WA 26-May 10-Sep 

Creative Journeys Celebrate WA Carillon City 1-Jun 4-Jun 

This Wall Talks Foodchain Lock Lane, Northbridge 1-Jun 31-Aug 

Light Locker Art Space Foodchain Grand Lane 1-Jun 31-Aug 

On and Off the Bench Gallery Central Central Institute of Technology 9-Jun 23-Jun 

Wearable Narratives, Contemporary 

Jewellery & Objects 

Gallery Central Central Institute of Technology 9-Jun 30-Jun 

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls Venn Gallery Venn Gallery 15-Jun 25-Jul 

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern 

Masters 

Art Gallery of WA Art Gallery of WA 16-Jun 3-Dec 

Objects. Food. Rooms. 

Perth Institute of Contemporary 

Arts 


Arts 

23-Jun 12-Aug 

Jimmy Pike’s Artline: Yanartilu 

Marnalu Kirranani - You call it desert, 

we used to live there 



UWA 

26-Jun 15-Dec 

Wondrous Possessions Perth Centre for Photography Perth Centre for Photography 28-Jun 29-Jul 

The Moorditj Yarning Art Exhibition Relationships Australia Perth Town Hall 28-Jun 2-Jul 

Living Walls FORM FORM 29-Jun 29-Jun 

The uncanny edge – a component of 

touch this earth lightly 

Gallery Central Central Institute of Technology 29-Jun 18-Jul 

Artbank Perth Tours ArtBank Hyatt Regency Perth 29-Jun 31-Aug 

BANFF Mountain Film Festival 2012 World Expeditions State Theatre Centre WA 30-May 2-Jun 

Metropolitan Opera in HD Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso 2-Jun 5-Aug 

Oscar Shorts 2012 1UP Microcinema 1UP Microcinema 6-Jun 10-Jun 

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Year of Reading 

State Library of WA State Library of WA 21-Jun 16-Aug 

Explore-a-saurus Scitech Scitech Discovery Centre 31-May 21-Aug 

National NAIDOC Week 2012 NAIDOC Perth Various 15-Jun 7-Jul 

Winterfest 2012 St George's Cathedral St George's Cathedral 24-Jun 24-Jun 

Supper Club City of Perth Perth Town Hall 29-Jun 29-Jun

JULY 


Theatrical 

Our artists aren’t tortured. 

Just a little chilled. 



Yirra Yarns 

The Blue Room Theatre & Yirra 

Yaakin Theatre Co. 

The Blue Room Theatre 3-Jul 7-Jul 

Actors Boot Camp - 5 day workshop WAYouth Theatre Company King St Arts Centre 9-Jul 13-Jul 

The School for Wives Bell Shakespeare State Theatre Centre of WA 11-Jul 14-Jul 

Signs of Life 

Paul Peacock’s Open Mic Night with 

Tim Howe 

Cabaret Soiree: Well Swung 

Cabaret Soiree: Two Weeks in Paris 

Cabaret Soiree: Kitchmas in July 

Black Swan State Theatre Co. & 

Sydney Theatre Co. 

State Theatre Centre of WA 21-Jul 12-Aug 

Underground Cabaret Kings Hotel Perth 7-Jul 7-Jul 


at The Maj 


at The Maj 


at The Maj 

His Majesty’s Theatre 4-Jul 7-Jul 







An Englishman, an Irishman 

and a Scotsman 


Comedy Lounge & EIS 

Riverside Theatre, Perth 

Convention Exhibition Centre 

14-Jul 14-Jul

JULY 



ArtBar - Tim Finn Art Gallery of WA Art Gallery of WA 5-Jul 5-Jul 

Ravel’s Piano Concerto WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 5-Jul 7-Jul 

Portraits in Guitar UWA Cultural Precinct 


UWA 

6-Jul 6-Jul 

The Bamboos The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 6-Jul 6-Jul 

Club Zho 101 Tura New Music The Bakery Artrage Complex 10-Jul 10-Jul 

Lucia di Lammermoor WA Opera His Majesty’s Theatre 14-Jul 21-Jul 

Verbitsky Conducts WAYO WA Youth Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 14-Jul 14-Jul 

Baroque to Romanticism - 

Christopher van Tuinen conducts FCO 

Fremantle Chamber Orchestra Perth Town Hall 15-Jul 15-Jul 

Amacord Musica Viva Perth Concert Hall 17-Jul 17-Jul 

The Reef Tura New Music & ACO Perth Concert Hall 18-Jul 18-Jul 

Troy Roberts Ellington Jazz Club Ellington Jazz Club 19-Jul 19-Jul 

The Piano Perth Jazz Society 

Downstairs at The Maj, His 

Majesty’s Theatre 

22-Jul 4-Aug 

Ladyhawke The Bakery Artrage Complex The Bakery Artrage Complex 24-Jul 24-Jul 

Nerissa Campbell Ellington Jazz Club Ellington Jazz Club 27-Jul 28-Jul 

Mozart’s Masterpiece WA Symphony Orchestra St Mary’s Cathedral 27-Jul 27-Jul 

2012 Sydney International Piano 

Competition of Australia 

Perth Theatre Trust and Perth 

Concert Hall 

Perth Concert Hall 30-Jul 30-Jul 






If the weather doesn’t 

give you goosebumps, 

the performances will.

JULY 






Masters 








Arts 



Arts 


UWA 

23-Jun 12-Aug 

26-Jun 15-Dec 








Lecture: The Biological Portrait UWA Cultural Precinct 

TOHOKU – Through the Eyes of 

Japanese Photographers 

Consulate-General of Japan in 

Perth 


UWA 

5 & 12 Jul 5 & 12 Jul 

Council House 10-Jul 26-Jul 

Out There Ladies Gallery Central Central Institute of Technology Jul-09 27-Jul 

The Eye of the Beholder Supper UWA Cultural Precinct 


UWA 

Wed 11 

July 

Wed 11 

July 

The Outsiders Narda McMahon State Theatre Centre of WA 13-Jul 5-Aug 

St George’s Art 2012: 10th Annual 

Exhibition 

Benjamin Forster, Tom Freeman and 

Clare Peake - Spatial Drawing 

St George's Cathedral St George's Cathedral 21-Jul 2-Aug 

Venn Gallery Venn Gallery 27-Jul 31-Aug 





Soiree Dinner: Portrait of a Luthier UWA Cultural Precinct The University Club Restaurant 4-Jul 4-Jul 

Mirror an exhibition by Jeannie Baker State Library of WA State Library of WA 5-Jul 28-Sep 

Erth's Dinosaur Petting Zoo WA Museum WA Museum 7-Jul 22-Jul 

Big Top Olympics City of Perth Forrest Place 9-Jul 21-Jul 

Kids’ Cushion Concerts WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 11-Jul 21-Jul 

Play Me A Picture WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 22-Jul 22-Jul 

Supper Club City of Perth Perth Town Hall 27-Jul 27-Jul 

Made on the Left Markets Made on the Left State Theatre Centre of WA 29-Jul 29-Jul

AUGUST 


Theatrical 

City Forecast: Cloudy with a 

chance of watercolours. 



In Tender Hands by Peter Bibby Janus Entertainment State Theatre Centre of WA 8-Aug 18-Aug 

The Mousetrap 


Michael Coppel, Louise Withers, 

Linda Bewick in association 

with Adrian Barnes and by 

arrangement with Mousetrap 

Productions Ltd London 

His Majesty’s Theatre 14-Aug 26-Aug 

Breaking Out WA Academy of Performing Arts Dolphin Theatre, UWA 21-Aug 25-Aug 

MoveMe Dance Festival STRUT Dance Various 28-Aug 2-Sep 





Scitech Comedy Debate Scitech Scitech Discovery Centre 14-Aug 14-Aug 


Brahms’ German Requiem WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 3-Aug 4-Aug 

Tasmin Little Plays Bruch WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 10-Aug 11-Aug 

WAAPA Lunchtime Concerts WA Academy of Performing Arts State Library of WA 10-Aug 31-Aug 

Beethoven 9, Ode to Joy Australian Chamber Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 15-Aug 15-Aug 

The Four Seasons St George's Cathedral St George's Cathedral 17-Aug 17-Aug 

James Morrison in Concert supported 

by the Australian Army Band 

Mike Stewart & Sarah McKenzie with 

WAYJO 

The Army Museum of WA 

Foundation 

Perth Concert Hall 18-Aug 18-Aug 

WA Youth Jazz Orchestra State Theatre Centre of WA 24-Aug 24-Aug 

Mozart & Mahler WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 24-Aug 25-Aug 

George Garzone Ellington Jazz Club Ellington Jazz Club 24-Aug 25-Aug 

Australiana: Celebrating Australian 

Choral Compositions 

Voyces Inc Perth Town Hall 26-Aug 26-Aug 

Sir Francis Burt Memorial Recital St George's Cathedral St George's Cathedral 30-Aug 30-Aug 

Arabian Nights WA Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall 31-Aug 1-Sep

AUGUST 











Masters 








Arts 



Arts 


UWA 

23-Jun 12-Aug 

26-Jun 15-Dec 








Iris Award 2012 + Iris Award Book 

Launch 

Perth Centre for Photography Perth Centre for Photography 2-Aug 2-Sep 

2012 Graduating Fundraiser Auction Gallery Central Central Institute of Technology 2-Aug 2-Aug 

Creative Connections Art & Poetry 

Exhibition 

Here & Now UWA Cultural Precinct 

Creative Connections City Farm 4-Aug 4-Aug 


UWA 

10-Aug 6-Oct 

metamorphosis 2012 Gallery Central Central Institute of Technology 13-Aug 24-Aug 





The 2012 WA Poetry Festival WA Poets Inc Various 17-Aug 20-Aug 

National Science Week - Molecular 

Origami 

Scitech Scitech Discovery Centre 15-Aug 19-Aug 

The Gruffalo's Child CDP Theatre Producers PTY State Theatre Centre of WA 21-Aug 28-Aug 

Supper Club City of Perth Perth Town Hall 31-Aug 31-Aug 

Visit showmeperth.com.au to read more about these events.

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