Astor Theatre, Mt Lawley
PICF runs until May 20
The Astor was under siege. People cramming in and
out of the old girl, milling on the sidewalks, clambering down fire escapes and
queuing for a hundred metres up Beaufort Street. It was like thousands of
really hip looking orcs had descended on some fortress in Gondor looking for
man-flesh.
Well they weren’t really orcs (what was I thinking). They were Perth,
and what had created this frenzy was the trove of comedy gold that had been
hoarded inside the building.
In February, PIAF and the Perth Fringe showed that there’s an enormous
hunger in this town for contemporary, quality, accessible entertainment,
especially if it’s gathered in precincts where you can hop from show to show.
PICF is about to prove the point.
