Bangarra, Beethoven and Bon Scott to light up Perth
New director Iain Grandage has put place front and centre of his first program.
"Hecate" in development. Written and directed by Kylie Bracknell and commissioned for the Perth Festival, the production is Yirra Yaakin Theatre’s Noongar adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth".
Iain Grandage has had a relationship with the Perth Festival for as long as he can remember but there is one event he will never forget. It was 1993 and African musician Salif Keita was performing a midnight show at the festival club, at the University of Western Australia’s Undercroft, that didn’t finish until well after 3am.
“It’s seared on my memory as one of those moments when an artist is just in the zone and the entire place was heaving, dancing, sweaty and ecstatic,” says Grandage. “Moments like that feel like the beginning of my relationship with the impossible carnival that festivals can be.”
