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How melodrama became the theme running through the 2026 Perth Festival

Theatre academic Peter Brooks championed the rise of melodrama as a popular form replacing tragedy. Melodrama, he said, tends to be explicit and hyperbolic in its representation of emotional and moral values.

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Aboriginal bands, experimental dance and a Hindu epic: the highlights of Perth Festival 2025

In the Perth Festival exhibitions brochure, artistic director Anna Reece noted that the city is “uniquely positioned in relation to Southeast Asia considering proximity and shared time zones”.

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Off limits for 44 years, Perth’s historic power plant erupts with a new kind of energy

The 1913-era coal power plant has been abandoned and eyed by developers for decades. But it finally has a new life at this year’s Perth festival

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Is This a Room shows Reality of FBI questioning onstage

The verbatim FBI interrogation of Reality Winner, charged with leaking proof of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, is recreated at the Perth Festival.

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The rise of ‘theatre AND’: how sounds, smells and interaction are luring in audiences

Three works at this year’s Perth festival required headphones, among many more multi-sensory shows. Outgoing director Iain Grandage dared the public to take the plunge

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Björk was the big-ticket name – but Perth Festival’s heart was found in Bikutsi 3000’s afrofuturist musing on African resistance

For the culturally curious, February and March in Perth can be a rich maelstrom, with Perth Fringe and Perth Festival. We have apparently the world’s “third largest” fringe festival (after Edinburgh and Adelaide), but I’m not sure why this is good.

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Perth Festival's superstar headliner Björk breaks box office records, but can't eclipse the Noongar excellence of Djoondal

The superstar headliner has already paid off for Perth Festival, but opening weekend platformed Noongar excellence, with a different kind of futuristic, audiovisual spectacle.

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Friday essay: writing poems across oceans, cultures and emails – John Kinsella on creative collaboration

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. On commission, and under the eye of the public, he painted the giant Queen Elizabeth for the 1954 ‘Royal Visit’ and the giant Captain Cook (with map of ‘New Holland’) for the 200th ‘celebrations’. These lines, read on their own,…

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Horse racing tips for the Perth Festival as Paul Nicholls’ Complete Unknown is heavily fancied

We also have the best bets for a great day of racing at Ludlow, Catterick and Salisbury.

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Perth Festival of the Arts starts ticket sales for fantastic 50th anniversary year

Tor two special weeks in May, Perth will welcome internationally acclaimed singers, musicians and actors to celebrate the arts in seven Fair City venues.

Daily Record

Tim Winton uses Perth Festival address to denounce fossil fuel reliance, arts sponsorship

Tim Winton is the latest Perth Festival artist to denounce Woodside's Scarborough gas project in WA, as well as the fossil fuel company's sponsorship of an arts festival event.

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‘It makes us chumps’: Tim Winton speaks out against fossil fuel sponsorship of Perth festival

Speaking at the festival, the author took aim at the event’s ‘embarrassing’ financial arrangements that come ‘straight out of the big tobacco playbook’

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The Smallest Stage is an intricately crafted play for families about incarceration – and the power of stories

Review: The Smallest Stage, by Kim Crotty for Perth Festival

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Perth Festival season of The Smallest Stage brings Kim Crotty's incredible storytelling project to life

In jail, Kim Crotty found the thing he missed most was reading to his kids at night - so he started writing them bedtime stories. A decade later, they’ve joined forces to turn them into a show.

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The new dance work And the Earth will Swallow Them Whole is unsettling and deeply engaging

Review: And the Earth will Swallow Them Whole, choreographed by Rachel Arianne Ogle

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A new musical, Panawathi Girl, is a fantasy of Australia's past – and a critique of Australia's present

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of people who have died.

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Man with COVID-19 dies in Perth hospital as WA records 51 local cases among 99 new infections

Western Australia records 51 local cases of COVID-19 among a total of 99 new infections, with the Premier also announcing the death of an unvaccinated man in his 70s at Joondalup Hospital.

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Perth festival 2022 prepares for opening weekend despite border closures and cancellations

Several events have been called off, while a few artists have special dispensation to enter WA after two-weeks’ quarantine

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Perth Racecourse saddles up for return with the launch of its 2022 season programme

A bumper 15-fixture season, featuring racing favourites such as Perth Festival, Ladies Day and the Gold Cup raceday, was announced 12 weeks out from the season opener on April 20

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