Perth Western Australia 6000
(08) 9227 7005
http://www.blueroom.org.au/
The Blue Room Theatre is what any alternative avant-garde theatre needs to be - a place where the interaction between the actors and the public is immediate, so close that you can touch and smell the actors, where the nature of the shows is always independent, experimental, and intimate, The problem with the immediacy and the intimacy is that, if you start to snooze everybody is going to see you, that if you don't like what is going on there is no escape out until the recess, that if you have a coughing attack, well, the function is disrupted.
The staff are all very friendly and young, and very cute.
The toilets need to be refurbished and redecorated, really! So unglamorous for my royal bottom. No no no!
I have always found taking alcoholic drinks to a theatre room an oddity. Can't we watch anything without a drink or something? Does our brain need to be conveniently boozed to enjoy anything in this country?
It always shocks me that the WA Arts scene, and the BRT, seems to be attended by, mostly, +55y.o. people, retires and couples. Perhaps this is just my experience. Although some nights quite young trendy people seem to be around, that is rarely the case. This is not theatre for the masses or mainstream theatre, so where are all those WAAPA students, Art students and those hypsters who pretend to be such a thing? Ahh, yes, in the usual mainstream booze booths or eateries among the vulgus. I find it a very bad indication of the artistic soul of this city, really, that young people seem to have little interest in independent art shows unless you go to the hipster place where you go, mostly, because it is where you get your stamp of approval as a hipster. So very mainstream... really.
Please go to the Blue Room. It is the best way to watch theatre in Perth, and the best way to watch theatre in general, costs a trifle (especially if you subscribe), it won't take much or your time, and you'll get an unique experience in a theatre of which Perthites should be very proud,
Listen carefully... it could even enlarge your brain, and even even even... your erogenous parts... Just give it a try. If it doesn't work for you, you are, officially, culturally impotent. Ha!
Did You know that, if you are a poor person and still want to attend a performance here, you can volunteer as an usher and get your ticket gratis?
Call them at 08 9227 7005
Bear in mind that you can get cheaper prices if you subscribe to 4 or 8 shows, or even cheaper if you become a member. Thus, this season ticket prices go from $20 concession, to $25 full priced, but if you are a member you pay 15 and 20 respectively, and even cheaper if you go on a group of + 8 people as you get your seat for just 15 bucks.
