Tom Flanagan
The Awesome Spiegeltent
Until October 19
Catch the Rain
Ellis and Céire Pearson
The Bird Hide
Until October 15
Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his Singing Tiger
Phil Burger and Stuart Bowden
The Awesome Spiegeltent
Until October 15
Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his Singing Tiger
Phil Burger and Stuart Bowden
The Awesome Spiegeltent
Until October 15
The Awesome Festival in the Perth Cultural Centre is an
eye-opening and exhilarating experience for a far-too-grown-up geezer like me.
I took in Spare Parts’ tender, expressive Hachiko and Yirra
Yaakin’s Promethean Noongar fable Kaarla Kaatijin (link here and here to their reviews in
The West) before seeing the South African father-daughter team of Ellis and
Céire Pearson’s Catch the Rain, a parched morality tale of water, drought and
corporate greed.
Tom Flanagan is a hugely talented physical performer, and his Kaput, in the Spiegeltent (now there’s a piece of arts infrastructure that’s paying off in spades), is a hilarious adventure in misadventure and back-to-front logic. As he fell through walls and tangled with ladders, glue buckets and other runaway inanimate objects, Flanagan channels every slapstick genius from Buster Keaton to Los Trios Ringbarkus. (Link here to the complete reviews in The West Australian).
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| Kids come to Dr Brown's rescue |
Wolfe
Bowart is a native Arizonian who now lives in Perth, and last year’s Awesome
Festival gave him a chance to play to his adopted home crowd for the first
time.
Bowart returns with Letter's End, just as impressive as his 2011 show, The Man the Sea Saw, but even more fun and engaging for young audiences. It's a freer expression of his performance skills and less of a formal narrative than its predecessor.
Bowart returns with Letter's End, just as impressive as his 2011 show, The Man the Sea Saw, but even more fun and engaging for young audiences. It's a freer expression of his performance skills and less of a formal narrative than its predecessor.
