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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.

10/05/2025

A waterwise Floreat verge garden that the owner said cost $18,000 is under threat and being “victimised” by Cambridge council officers.

Read the story on page 5 of today's POST.

09/05/2025

“Who is advising Tom White?” a member of the Cottesloe branch of the Liberal Party demanded of the POST in February.

Page 1 of today's POST examines why the Liberals failed to win back Chaney voters in Curtin.

Kate Chaney says independents have gained a permanent foothold in Australian politics after she doubled her margin in th...
09/05/2025

Kate Chaney says independents have gained a permanent foothold in Australian politics after she doubled her margin in the western suburb seat of Curtin.

An in-depth analysis of the battle for the western suburbs is on page 1 of today's POST: postnewspapers.com.au

Dying of ThirstReview by arts editor Sarah McNeillThirstYirra Yaakin Theatre CompanyStudio at Subiaco Arts CentreCloses ...
08/05/2025

Dying of Thirst

Review by arts editor Sarah McNeill
Thirst
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
Studio at Subiaco Arts Centre
Closes May 10

The setting for Thirst is The Glass Slipper tavern in the country town of Yellow Springs. Like so many country pubs, it is struggling, and its new owners Lola (Della Rae Morrison) and Chico (Bruce Denny), who inherited it, are hoping that a sold-out night by the CWA (country women or “chin waggers” as Lola disparagingly calls them) might raise some much-needed money.
For audiences, the lure of pub karaoke is tempting, as is the publicity promise of a “savvy barmaid with secret talents”. Has Leah Pigram inherited the Pigram family talent for music?
We’ll never know. Her talents are kept to a minimum, as is the karaoke.

Writer Barbara Hostalek has had some success with previous plays, but in Thirst the ideas of the rhythms of country life, of following dreams and of struggling for success, are under-realised to the point of being embarrassingly simplistic.

The one-act play has the potential to be a light, fast-paced comedy, mining some important issues with some great music, but its central concern of engaging Lola to perform in a much-needed fundraiser couldn’t have been handled with less ease.

Della Rae’s Lola, a retired singer, does not want to sing, but she apparently doesn’t want to talk much either. She is quietly dismissive of the plot’s narrative.
Leah gives a natural, easy performance as barmaid Roxy who needs to find the courage to follow her dreams, while Bruce’s manager Chico and Jarrad Inman as local lad Bruce clearly feel the need to inject some energy into the show with some serious over-acting.
Thirst is dehydrated, and director Maitland Schnaars has dried it out with uncomfortable performances, awkward moves, clumsy lighting stakes and a poor sound design.

Photo: The Glass Slipper country tavern potentially holds the dreams of Bruce (Jarrad Inman) Roxy (Leah Pigram), Chico (Bruce Denny) and Lola (Della Rae Morrison).

A dolphin and her calf were quick to seize the opportunity for a feast of fish when Cottesloe’s shark barrier started co...
04/05/2025

A dolphin and her calf were quick to seize the opportunity for a feast of fish when Cottesloe’s shark barrier started coming down on Monday.

See page 3 of this weekend's POST: postnewspapers.com.au

Building nuclear power plants in Australia would not please God, according to a Mosman Park priest.See page five of toda...
03/05/2025

Building nuclear power plants in Australia would not please God, according to a Mosman Park priest.

See page five of today's POST.

03/05/2025

Curtin Liberal candidate Tom White is directing his voters to give their second preference to One Nation, but says his endorsement of the hard-right party is only “symbolic”.

Read the full story on page one of today's POST.

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