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Published: Monday, 20 July 2020 10:54
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Written by Nita Teoh
In a world premiere season, Co-Directors Emily McLean and Joe Paradise Lui have risen to the challenges of covid-19 in order to tell the story of some unique and every day West Australians who have achieved extraordinary things. "Unsung Heroes" is Black Swan State Theatre Company's first outing in its series of "Black Swan Home Theatre".
Emily and Joe have been encouraged to grow and adapt to working during covid times by transforming a series of staged monologues into a series filmed on stage, that will be live streamed during the next fortnight from tomorrow Tuesday 21 July onwards.
As Emily McLean Co-director of Unsung Heroes explains:
" Working closely with Joe Paradise Lui to ensure a shared language across the project that still has room for each individual story's quirks and demands has been a rare treat.
It has been freeing to have the ability to cut and zoom to a close up - like really, really close up.
Building a relationship with the audience member found down the barrel of the camera has been an interesting use of the form and the best (and only) possible path to our audience.
And in fact it isn't one audience member down there - we have put the whole Studio Underground audience onto one seat and we are telling the story to that seat."
The performances tell stories of courage, life’s music, adventure, new beginnings and dignity and is a timely reminder of our shared humanity and of our uniquely Western Australian identity.
The works have been written by local playwrights Gita Bezard, Barbara Hostalek, Chris Isaacs, Hellie Turner and Mararo Wangai.
The program line up is as follows:
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Published: Monday, 06 July 2020 09:58
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Written by Nita Teoh
Fancy a double dose of the Rev Film Festival in 2020 ?!
For the past few months, we have hit the pause button on just about everything in Perth due to covid.
But not any longer!
The Revelation Film Festival returns with a vengeance!
And we are in for a double shot of the #RevFilmFest this year.
First up this month will be Rev Couched! - the digital film festival kicks off on 9 July for a 10 day marathon.
Then in December, The Rev Film Festival will revert back to a physical event where we will be able to attend in person. Yay!
Rev Couched! will feature 30 plus brand new international films from across the globe consisting of features, short films, live streams, talks and more with a good dose of Aussie films and local talent.
Perth Walkabout’s Top 7 picks from Rev Couched are as follows:
The Florist premieres as a feature film at this year’s Rev Couched.
Careerist millennial Annika (Rebecca Murphy – also as the producer) makes her living selling edible hypnotic flowers to trendy eateries in Los Angeles. Business appears to be going well till she hears that her competitors are moving in, so she has to act fast.
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