With powerful performances and impeccable staging, Kate Champion’s direction of Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know To Be True impresses David Zampatti, even if he has some doubts about the play.
Tag Archives: Humphrey Bower
Reviews
Terrific team tackles The Tempest
25 November 2021
David Zampatti is no fan of The Tempest. Is Black Swan’s “by popular demand” production going to change his mind?
Reviews
Promise aplenty from WAAPA acting students
15 September 2021
WAAPA’s third year students show plenty of potential in Humphrey Bower’s take on Julius Caeser, writes Rita Clarke.
Q&A
Transplanting ‘The Cherry Orchard’
4 February 2021
This month renowned local actor Humphrey Bower will be performing in Black Swan State Theatre’s fresh new take on The Cherry Orchard, which sees Chekhov’s comedy classic transplanted in time and place, to the South-West of WA in the 1980s. Nina Levy caught up with Bower to find out more.
Features
Cream of the crop 2020
9 December 2020
It feels more important than ever to celebrate the arts in 2020. And so, in spite of the challenges faced by the arts community this year, we are thrilled to bring you Seesaw’s annual ‘Cream of the Crop’ round-up, in which we ask our writers to reflect on the year that was and the year to come.
Reviews
Myth and mystery make magic
7 December 2020
Cleverly weaving together two performances delivered in parallel, The Golem: or, Next Year in Jerusalem is obscure yet fascinating, writes David Zampatti.
Event
Theatre: The Apparatus
21 August 2019
20 – 31 August @ The Blue Room Theatre · Presented by Humphrey Bower · Absurd comic horror. Three stories by Franz Kafka explore legal limbo, …
Reviews
Dark humour for dark times
17 August 2019
Humphrey Bower, The Apparatus · The Blue Room Theatre, 15 August · Review by Miranda Johnson · The Apparatus brings the stories of Franz Kafka to …
Event
Lit Live: Behaving Badly
16 August 2019
4 September @ Centre For Stories, Northbridge · Presented by Sarah McNeill · Australia’s finest storyteller, Humphrey Bower joins Lit Live this month to read provocative, …
Reviews
Tapping into our deepest fears
25 June 2018
Review: Samantha Chester, HIRO: The Man Who Sailed His House · The Blue Room Theatre, 23 June · Review by Steven Cohen · “Strange things happen …
