Author: Daniel Harvey
Review: WAAPA Brings Terror & Irish Wit To The Lieutenant Of Inishmore
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Brutal, absurd, and darkly comic, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, the second play in Martin McDonagh’s Aran trilogy, turns a sharp eye toward sectarian violence and the fractured ideologies behind it. It is presented by the 3rd year Acting students at WAAPA for a limited season. Through its exaggerated bloodshed and biting…
Film Review: The Rivals Of Amziah King Is An Unruly Blend of Music, Crime & Community
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★★★★☆ Set against the hum and heat of the Deep South, The Rivals of Amziah King follows Matthew McConaughey’s Amziah as he drifts back into the life of Kateri, his former foster daughter, played by Angelina LookingGlass. What follows is a loose, unruly blend of music, crime, and community, a…
Film Review: Silent Friend Whispers In The Stillness
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★★★★☆ At the heart of the botanical garden in the medieval university town of Marburg stands a Ginkgo biloba tree, ancient and patient, watching a century of lives pass beneath its branches. Across three stories set in 1908, 1972 and 2020, Silent Friend follows those who cross paths with it, their lives…
Review: Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes 2026 Perth Festival
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★★★½ Meow Meow is an international cabaret figure known for blending virtuosic singing with anarchic, unpredictable performance. Equal parts diva, clown and provocateur, she constructs shows that veer between glamour and collapse, humour and menace, intimacy and spectacle. And in Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes, co-presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company for Perth Festival, she…
Film Review: Deaf Is A Scoreless Exploration Of Isolation & Love
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★★★★☆ Premiering at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival, Sorda (Deaf) won the Panorama Audience Award and has been widely praised for its authenticity and striking use of sound. Ángela, a deaf woman, is expecting a child with her hearing partner, Héctor. The baby’s arrival unsettles the fragile equilibrium of their lives, forcing…
