09/06/2024
A former Cottesloe mayor will be commemorated with a drinking fountain connected to a dog bowl rather than a memorial bench the family asked for.
The details are on page 11 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
Read all about it! Every time a sparrow falls in Perth's western suburbs, it's reported in the POST.
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Order your copy of Bret Christian's new book Stalking Claremont: Inside the Hunt for a Serial Killer here: tinyurl.com/y5t3fpe9
The book reveals for the first time the behind-the-scenes stories of the crimes and the long police hunt for the killer.
09/06/2024
Posters pleading for basic respect and courtesy were spotted on a street tree in Rupert Street this week. It's been 14 years since the trees were used in the same way to deliver a message.
The bizarre tale is on page 4 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
09/06/2024
Curtin MP Kate Chaney says some men have been in contact to tell her they feel “targeted” by the community’s response to the Floreat shootings.
Her comments are on page 3 of this week’s paper: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
08/06/2024
Pump cyclists and skateboarders rejoice… the long-awaited Cottesloe skate-park and cyclist pump track is finished and due to open today.
The details are on page 5 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
07/06/2024
Turbulent Cambridge will seek its fifth chief executive in two years after Gary Tuffin unexpectedly quit this week.
The POST has all the details on the front page of this week’s paper: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
07/06/2024
More than 1000 local residents have been shut out of information about their future by the states’ most powerful planners, who considered the UWA and QEII expansion at a secret meeting last week.
The report is on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
07/06/2024
Community catastrophe. Floreat neighbourhood locals and invited guests gathered to hear the words of Anglican clergy as they battled to come to grips with the tragedy that happened in their street.
The report is on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
05/06/2024
Review by arts editor Sarah McNeill
State: Contemporary Vision
WA Ballet
State Theatre Centre
Closes June 8
Once again Polish choreographer Robert Bondara dominated a night of new contemporary ballet. In his third work for the company, he was commissioned to create a new work for State. The opening work titled Nothing Twice is inspired by a poem of the same name by Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska.
The notion of time past and passing, of flowing and of projecting has lead to a beautiful structured, stylish piece with 16 dancers moving through time following a corridor of light that moves across the stage.
Visual artist Jagoda Chalcińska’s projections of bubbles fizzing and perpendicular lines of rain falling, matched with Portico Quartet’s percussive jazz score make for a dramatic, elegant ensemble piece.
The subtitle to State’s collection of new works is “challenge your perception of ballet”. Perth choreographer James O’Hara certainly does that with his uber-contemporary work, Mattering. Less of a dance and more of a running contest, the dancers, wearing workout gear, are trapped in an endless, seemingly improvised, loop of stretching, walking, running chasing, catching and overtaking, to a cacophonous score by James Hazel. It is a hard one to watch and even harder to listen to – but it does challenge the idea of contemporary ballet.
The finale is a revival of Carnivale by Raewyn Hill from Co3. Originally conceived in 2012, its latest iteration, Carnivale.6 is an exhilarating, pulsating work that moves inexorably to its thrilling end, pushed by the growing rhythms of Ravel’s Bolero.
In Bruce McKinven’s diaphanous gold-laced carnival costumes, the ensemble of 13 dancers – which include five guest dancers from Co3, move fluidly together, never for a moment stopping the propulsive communal celebration.
Caption: WA Ballet dancers in Nothing Twice by Robert Bondara.
02/06/2024
Review by arts editor Sarah McNeill
The Woman in Black
PW/Woodward/Neil Gooding Productions
His Majesty’s Theatre
closes June 9
“Acting is an art that requires tears and time,” Daniel MacPherson’s Actor tells John Waters’ ageing solicitor, Arthur Kipps.
Both these skilled actors have had years (decades in Waters’ case) of time and tears that are well-honed for their roles in this classic ghost story. But what is missing is modern technology.
Britain’s second longest running play after The Mousetrap, The Woman in Black was adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from Susan Hill’s novel in the 1980s. It tells the story of a lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the ghost of a woman in black. He engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story to his family and friends to exorcise the fear that grips him.
Staged as a play-within-a-play, Daniel MacPherson is excellent as the confident actor trying to inject a bit a stage-craft into a reluctant Kipps.
It is all played for laughs until the moment when MacPherson takes on the role of the young solicitor Kipps in earnest, when he sent to the funeral of former client Alice Drablow and to recover all her papers, with Waters playing several roles (all with excellent accents) in the unfolding story.
“It’s all done with sound and lights,” reassures The Actor on designer Michael Holt’s minimal stage design, draped with grey backstage curtains, a costume rack and a handful of props.
The forward sloping stage is an unhelpful devise that forces Waters to stand with legs akimbo, looking as if he is uncomfortably unbalanced.
Kevin Sleep’s clever atmospheric lighting design and Sebastian Frost’s evocative sound design then come into play as Kipps arrives at Alice Drablow’s large, empty and eerie Eel Marsh House, marooned on a patch of land surrounded by marshland and dense fog.
Both men give strong, nuanced performances as the story of the ghost unfolds.
Originally created as a Christmas “stocking filler” show, the economic casting with two men narrating and playing out various characters, along with a minimal set, remained much the same for its 33 years on the West End.
John Waters said: “The play relies heavily on us as the cast to create the tension.” Which they largely do. But when an audience no longer screams at ghostly apparitions but laughs instead, it is surely time to turn a “cut-price stocking filler” into something technically more sophisticated, compelling and provocative.
It is no longer a “terrifying night of theatre” but one to appreciate fine performances in an ageing classic.
Caption: John Waters and Daniel MacPherson give strong nuanced performances in this ageing ghost story.
Photo James Reiser.
02/06/2024
Inside knowledge of a Subiaco butcher’s hidden safe is suspected to have tempted thieves who bashed open a padlocked coolroom door at the Crossways shop last Friday.
The details are on page 34 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
02/06/2024
Nedlands mayor Fiona Argyle used a passionate 18-minute speech at this week’s council meeting to decry climate change and urge the resignations of councillors and staff who did not support her.
The full report is on page 11 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
01/06/2024
Kings Park’s trees are being targeted by vandals who graffiti obscene messages onto the bark, poison others and etched their initials into an 800-year-old Boab.
The botanic garden’s workers are devastated, particularly as drought has badly impacted the canopy this year.
The report is on page 11 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
31/05/2024
A proposed building with two tower blocks of 36 and 26 storeys next to Subiaco Oval’s heritage gates promises nearly 100 fewer apartments than housing minister John Carey promised would be built there last year.
The report is on page 7 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
31/05/2024
Nedland’s deputy mayor handed in his resignation this week, and on the way out, took a swipe at its leadership style.
The report is on page 7 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
31/05/2024
Shock, horror, then anger; a street and community reeling with grief. Jenny and Gretl Petelczyc were decent, much loved people and the POST this week captures the enormous sense of loss felt across the western suburbs.
Read a copy of the latest edition here: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
30/05/2024
Reviews by arts editor Sarah McNeill
At the opposite end of the spectrum to two classics currently showing in Perth, Gaslight and The Woman in Black, independent theatre continues to reach for technology, AI, abstraction, puppetry and dystopian politics designed to confront and disengage audiences rather than entertain.
The State, showing at the Blue Room, is written and directed by Marli Jupiter and co-written by performer Rhi Bryan.
It draws on Abstract Theatre and puppetry for a discourse on politics: Four states are represented by “Daddies”: This Daddy (Lucy Wong), That Daddy (Rhi Bryan), Which Daddy (Mazey O’Reilly) and What Daddy (Jo Cooper), each serving overall leader Mummy (Bronte Frances). The protagonist is Flung About who is travelling across statelines to find the body of their late mother and battling a callous, brutal and broken healthcare system.
The premise of this dystopian drama has great merit, but it gets muddied, and then lost in a wealth of over-enthusiastic but under-developed performances, as they race through countless characters and try to manipulate interesting-looking puppets. The snapping opening and closing an unnecessary stage curtain, political rants that go nowhere, graphic sexual references that have no genuine purpose leave this political treatise with nowhere to go.
Fake, which showed for just three nights at the Goodwill Club downstairs at The Rechabite, issued multiple warnings that the content was graphic and uncomfortable.
Mark Haslam created a real-time show with two large screens and two TV screens that examined online content: the alternative truths, political divisions, AI, scams, conspiracy theories, and distortions of reality. Mark had said in an interview: “I started a deep dive into some odd (dark!) corners of the internet and found not only a bunch of seething resentment, but also a lot of desperate people just trying to find someone to connect with.”
Turning that desperation into a stage show involved two large screens and two television screens each showing a flash of images, memes and commentary as he “scraped” the internet in real-time.
With Mark on computers in the middle of the room, he relayed the online content on the four screens at such speed, it was hard to get a hold on any of it, let alone decided whether it was real or fake. He played a game with the audience “True or False” using an AI host, and introduced an unregulated site where people can post images of a graphic or sexual nature. Most images were pixilated.
Fake was entertaining and for Luddites like me, enlightening – but is it theatre?
caption: Fake by Mark Haslam
30/05/2024
Review by arts editor Sarah McNeill
Gaslight
Queensland Theatre/TEG
Regal Theatre
Closes June 9
This is a production to restore one’s faith in theatre: a smart, subtle and menacing Victorian Gothic, on a beautifully designed set with great costumes, well directed with pitch-perfect performances from the two leads.
In 2022 Merriam-Webster named “gaslighting” Word of the Year, but for a word adopted by the generation, few know its origins as a 1938 play and an award-winning 1944 film.
Patrick Hamilton’s original Victorian melodrama, Gas Light, about a man who tries to persuade his wife that she is mentally unstable so that he can commit a crime and be free of her, has most recently been adapted by Canadian playwrights Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson in 2022; a production now touring Australia.
Directed by Queensland Theatre Company’s artistic director Lee Lewis, this new version of Gaslight has a key difference in dispensing with a male detective to uncover the truth. No “mansplaining” here, instead the focus is on the wife Bella to figure out for herself what is happening to her and for her to take control of her own destiny.
Geraldine Hakewill and Toby Schmitz play Bella and Jack Manningham, a newly-married couple renting a home in London. From the start, Bella’s mood swings quickly from sunny and positive to distressed and fretful, overseen by her worried and loving husband. Her distress grows at being left alone in the evening when the gas lamps suddenly dim for no apparent reason, and noises can be heard from the locked attic.
“I’m afraid one day I won’t be able to protect you,” says Jack increasingly concerned as she moves a painting without remembering, and loses and misplaces things including her mother’s precious pearls.
Toby is superb as Jack, delicately balancing what seems to be genuine affection with masterful coercive control. It makes the revelation of his true vicious self at the end a shock.
Perfectly matched is Geraldine’s breathy, tearful fragility and her palpable distress that is she is going mad – until she realises she isn’t. Her slow and subtle changes of intonation are perfectly pitched as she struggles to face her new reality.
Dour housekeeper Elizabeth (Kate Fitzpatrick) and sassy cockney maid Nancy (Courtney Cavallaro) offer no clues as to their understanding of the situation. Elizabeth’s severe and monotone responses to Jack’s urging for her support reveal nothing, while the overly-familiar new maid Nancy doesn’t flirt with Jack, just displays a puzzling disrespect.
Designer Renée Mulder’s delicious set is an intricately detailed Victorian drawing room with its gas lamps and all-important chandelier. Bella’s beautiful period costumes are delicate shades of cream and beige reflecting a delicate frame of mind.
As the Canadian adapters of this classic Victorian Gothic melodrama note: “They’re classics for a reason, because playwrights, through the brilliance of their invention, have managed to put a finger on an aspect of the human experience that is universal, that resonates with audiences decades, or even centuries, later”.
Eighty six years later “gaslighting” resonates more than ever.
And though this updated version demands a lot of exposition, it is a classic that is handled with love, respect and skill.
Caption: Pitch-perfect performances by Geraldine Hakewill and Toby Schmitz as Bella and Jack Manningham.
26/05/2024
After 68 years of married life Paddy and Lena Costello – founding members of the Irish Club in Subiaco – died last month within five days of each other.
Their story of life and luck are detailed on page 6 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
25/05/2024
They’re a long way from England but these swimmers got a taste of what it might be like to tackle the English Channel when they plunged into the Swan River at Freshwater Bay last week.
Read the story on page 5 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
📸 Rory Thompson
24/05/2024
A chartered accountant has given the inside story of Nedlands’ chaotic past few months.
Its on page 3 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
24/05/2024
Cirque du Soleil is moving in to the Claremont Showgrounds for its first season there this year, but unbeknown to residents and the local council until this month, it’ll likely be allowed to stay.
The report is on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
📸 Ross Swanborough
24/05/2024
"Now is the time to act!" say the people - many of them medics and medical centre workers - who are living in the shadow of the QEII.
They say they will fight to save their homes and community from being swallowed up by state government plans.
The report is on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
📸 Ross Swanborough
19/05/2024
Rubbish went up in smoke last week and then it was dumped over a Mt Claremont road.
The details are on page 7 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
19/05/2024
“This is special. Just between us. Don’t tell your mum or dad. Understand?” That’s a quote from Anatomy of a Secret, One Man’s Search for Justice, by Gerard McCann.
He spoke to the POST this week and his story is on page 6 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
19/05/2024
A last ditch bid is being made for Nedlands to approve adding a second swimming pool, a garage, a porte cochere, a pavilion and a “parcel drop-off building” to Alan Bond’s former mansion.
The details are on page 7 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
18/05/2024
Sisters Anina and Jacinta Schweizer show off their skills in Subiaco before flying to compete in the national gymnastics championships this week.
Read more on page 3 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
📸 Ross Swanborough
17/05/2024
Some local reaction to the POST's front page story about the state government's plan to turn hundreds of home into a mega-medical precinct.
Read all about here: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
17/05/2024
The foundation behind the Swanbourne children’s hospice is making “another desperate attempt to take control of more of Allen Park,” Nedlands councillors have been told.
The details are on page 5 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
17/05/2024
Subiaco and other western suburbs councils are rationing their water as Perth’s historic drought continues.
Read more on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
Photo: Ross Swanborough
17/05/2024
Fears have been realised for hundreds of Hollywood and Nedlands residents who long fretted that their homes could be swallowed by a giant medical precinct.
The POST has the details on the front page of this week’s paper: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
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Some local reaction to the POST's front page story about the state government's plan to turn hundreds of home into a mega-medical precinct. Read all about here: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
Just a quarter of the children from the Subiaco childcare centre that burned to the ground last weekend have been absorbed into two other local centres owned by the same company. All the detail are on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post
Amana dust storm
Clouds of demolition dust that blew over Claremont and Peppermint Grove houses should not have happened, says a local resident who personally protested on the work-site. The Post was there to record the action. See the front page of this week's paper for the story: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/post-newspapers
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The Post’s David Cohen and Paul McGovern take us through the big news stories in the western suburbs this week…
Cottesloe storm
The western suburbs were blowin' in the wind of a big storm last week, and the Post was there to catch the action. Read all about it on page 9 of this week’s paper: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/post-newspapers
Who ever would have thought there were so many ornate old turnstiles hanging around and around? When the Post put out the call to find the originals that once graced the main entrance to Subiaco Oval, it's amazing what turned up. See page 7 of this week's paper for the story. 📷🎥 Paul McGovern - Contemporary Image Photography Pty Ltd
Nedlands arsonist
An arsonist got a taste of his own medicine when he and a mate set fire to a Nedlands real estate office - he also set fire to himself. Turn to page 3 of this week’s Post to find out how his plans went up in flames: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/post-newspapers 🎥 Western Australia Police Force
Teddy the stolen spoodle is on his way home in a police car to his anxious family in Swanbourne. He was found overnight in the outer suburban city of Armadale. The owners threw the kitchen sink at finding their beloved pup, hiring a pet detective and even offering a $20,000 reward. Read the full story on the front page of this week’s Post: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/post-newspapers 🎥 WA Police Force
Post Newspapers is with Cold Case Homicide Squad police at Cottesloe beach. Police are digging in beach dunes at south Cottesloe for clues to the murder of 22-year-old university student Julie Cutler in June 1988. She was last seen leaving her job at Perth’s Sheraton hotel late at night. Two days later her Fiat car was found in the surf at Cottesloe main beach, a kilometre north of today’s search. More details in the Post on Friday.
Cold Case Homicide Squad dune dig
Post Newspapers is with Cold Case Homicide Squad police at Cottesloe beach. Police are digging in beach dunes at south Cottesloe for clues to the murder of 22-year-old university student Julie Cutler in June 1988. She was last seen leaving her job at Perth’s Sheraton hotel late at night. Two days later her Fiat car was found in the surf at Cottesloe main beach, a kilometre north of today’s search. More details in the Post on Friday: https://www.pressreader.com/australia/post-newspapers/
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5 Warburton Street, Cottesloe
An entire block of Cottesloe flats is on the market as a 99-year-old woman sells up. The 838sq.m block 100 metres from the beach could be yours for around $5 million. See details on page 11 of this week’s POST: goo.gl/Zs9x1p Paul McGovern - Contemporary Image Photography Pty Ltd
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