Perth Arts Film Festival

The UWA Perth International Arts Festival is a cultural festival held in Western Australia. The festival, a 1953 creation of University of Western Australia, made it to the oldest international arts festival in Australia. Activities include theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts and literature, occurring right across the state. It has developed a worldwide reputation for innovative development, presentation of new works and provision of quality arts. For over 50 years the festival has welcomed to Perth some of the world's greatest living artists and now connects with over 300, 000 people each year.

The Perth International Arts Festival is an exciting and interesting spectacle of the arts, a truly compelling experience for visitors from all walks of life.

Features of the Perth International Arts Festival:

Theatre

Opera

Dance

Visual Arts

Music

Outdoor Circus

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Free Family Events

One Book is a Perth International Arts Festival project, which invites people throughout WA to celebrate the written word by reading, sharing and discussing one book.

There are many fun ways to participate from giant book clubs to late night comedy. Read the book, meet the author, join in special One Book events, listen to radio discussions, and most importantly enjoy a wonderful story.

Highlights of 2006 Perth International Arts Festival

Book Thief creation of Australian author Markus Zusak. He grew up hearing stories about Nazi Germany, about the bombing of Munich and about Jews being marched through his mother's small, German town. He always knew it was a story he wanted to tell.

Theaters

The Taming Of the Shrew

Shakespeare's brilliantly surreal and controversial romantic comedy gives a glimpse into the complex relationship between men and women, and subservience and obedience within marriage.

A man playing a boy dresses up as a girl and a girl played by a boy dresses up as a bride in this delicious story full of mistaken identities and transformations.

Twelfth Night

On the island of Illyria, nothing is quite what it seems. Shipwrecks, storms, late-night drinking, duels and broken hearts make fertile ground for Shakespeare's beautiful and haunting comedy.

A woman has her love for a man awakened by a woman while a man dressed as a woman disguises himself as a boy. As often is the case with Shakespeare, true nature is revealed by deception.

Lost Girl

When her wicked uncle banishes a young girl to the bush, there's only one thing she can do - fight back! Cheer our feisty heroine as she escapes through the trees. Gasp at our hero, tied to a bench in the path of a circular saw's spinning blade.

The Lost Girl brings to life the age of mechanical wonders - steam engines, gramophones and silent movies - with slapstick humor and dramatic storytelling. Inspired by Frederick Cubin's Lost and the movies of Buster Keaton, it's an inventive and physical play about art, imagination, the olden days and the Australian bush

Opera

Love of the Nightingale

Orpheus in Underworld