APOCALYPSE PERTH

Starring GREG McNEILL (David Williamson's SOULMATES, Perth Theatre Company, THE CRUCIBLE, Black Swan Theatre Company) WHITNEY RICHARDS (Polly Peachum in THE THREEPENNY OPERA, Hayman Theatre) VANESSA TRENGOVE (Joondalup Encore Theatre Society: BUSYBODY, RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE, FAWLTY TOWERS) CRAIG WILLIAMS (Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company, The Big Hoo Haa) Written by Kate Rice Directed by Jeremy Rice Sound Composition by Ashley Gibson Greig Lighting Design by Lucy Birkenshaw In January 2008 an amateur theatre group based in Perth’s northern suburbs put on a show called Rock Apocalypse. In February an anonymous review was posted online. It was not favourable. What followed was an extraordinary online exchange of observations, criticisms, insults and invective. It was a passionate debate over the quality of the performers, the lack of air-conditioning, the price of drinks at interval, the process of choosing and casting a play, what a paying audience can and can’t expect, and just who is entitled to be rude about it all anyway; all played out on the internet, where everyone is a performer and no one is safe. “Shame. Shame on you all. We asked for a review, not a subscription to S**t-slinging Weekly.” Apocalypse Perth is verbatim theatre based on the online forum and interviews with those who took part in it and those who were crushed by it. See it and say what you really think. Part of the ‘SILVER’ ARTRAGE Festival 25th Anniversary Edition.