It's all good at Summer Nights
Awarded Best Independent Program in FRINGE WORLD six years in a row, this year sees Summer Nights take over the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia and dive into the pool at COMO The Treasury.
Slap and Tickle. Credit James Guiey and Studio Papa.
Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
In Slap and Tickle, witness the incredible talent of ARIA and Helpmann award-winning star of stage and screen iOTA, join forces with the West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra to tell the story of a clown and a gimp.
Minus One Sister is a razor sharp tale of family jealousy, murder, and vodka cruisers. Based on Sophocles’ Electra, this is an absolute theatrical gut-punch!
Following a highly successful season in Sydney last year, The Wind in the Underground premieres in Perth. It tells a family tale that feels like a big warm hug from some of Australia’s brightest young theatre makers.
The Round, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
UK’s drag king champion Lucy Jane Parkinson is set to wow in JOAN – a powerful and award-winning cabaret tale about history’s greatest gender-warrior, Joan of Arc.
The highly immersive Less Light makes its premiere, a story told in darkness that’ll transport your imagination to oh so familiar feelings – all sound tracked live by Perth’s alt-folk master Jacob Diamond.
New South Wales’ Sharon and Omer Backley-Astrachan bring their real life partnership to the stage in TOHU, an intimate and mesmerising dance work that explores the universal behaviours of humankind.
COMO Pool, COMO The Treasury
There is just one show in this super-unique venue over the Fringe binge season and it’s 19 weeks.
The work is performed almost entirely in the pool and won Best Theatre at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. With an intimate capacity of 30, make sure you get down early as only the first row will be able to dangle their feet in the cool water.
The Yonder. Nayt Houssman.
The Blue Room Theatre
The heart and hub of Summer Nights, The Blue Room Theatre, will host another 20+ productions as part of the Summer Nights season.
Outstanding international work such as Fleabag will be making its debut in Perth – a show that comes direct from UK’s Soho Theatre and is so sucker punch funny it has become a hit BBC series.
Joining the festival’s laughs for the first time is Madame Nightshade’s Poison Garden – a queer eco-comedy in a dystopic world where vegetables become weapons and Snow White is a spring-onion wielding samurai.
A Summer Nights favourite of years past, 600 Seconds has been reimagined, rejigged, and reinvigorated.
For bite-sized works and a mixbag like no other, check out A Night Of.. featuring short works from artists of a range of disciplines from improv, theatre, photography, music and more.
MicroMove is a program committed entirely to dance, showcasing some of WA’s most established dance artists alongside the hottest emerging talent.
Beautifully stupid storytelling once again graces our stage in Wil Greenway: the way the city ate the stars, while Stuart Bowden’s trademark whimsical lo-fi humour will be on display through his music-infused tale When Our Molecules Meet Again* Let’s Hope They Remember What To Do (*Probably In Space).
Cosmic comedy continues as The Yonder makes its Western Australian premiere - a collaboration between Ezel Doruk and Salty’s Shannan Lim.
FRINGE WORLD 2017 Best Comedy Award Winner Butt Kapinski returns to Summer Nights with its film noir murder mystery that sees you co-star.
A new comedy clicks attending with CULL, a savage social media sketch show that pulls apart the characters in your feed.
Local writer and director Scott McArdle presents his debut children’s work Josephine! a joyful adventure featuring pirates and ghosts, and highlighting the strength of children.
Whilst Cardboard Kingdom sees teenagers and young adults from Mandurah’s RipTide ensemble work, write and direct their very own production.
There’s limbs gone rogue, a monster under the bed and a dystopia made of cupboards in The Big Dark, a puppet show from Perth’s own Rhiannon Petersen.
Matt Penny – acclaimed magician and long-time man-about-town will wow us all in Find the Lady; a magical storytelling adventure of a con-man who dreamt a little too big.
Night Sweats. Credit Haydon Wilson & Timothy Green.
And, as if things weren’t hot and sticky enough, new Perth theatre company Static Drive Co bring us Night Sweats, the fever dream of an insomniac and all his beautiful anxieties.
No matter your schedule, your taste, or your budget there’s sure to be something to tickle your fancy amongst our extensive program.
Spend your days melting in the dry heat of Perth’s wonderful summer, then join us for an evening you’re sure to remember.
Right in the heart of Northbridge, smack bang in the middle of the Fringe hustle and bustle, Summer Nights will serve you a slice of live entertainment guaranteed to satisfy your thirst for a good time.