Paul Meek. Perth Reviews

The Tease Factory
The Court Hotel
October 2025
Reviewed for X-Press Magazine

📷 John Leonard Photography

"...brought some of the world’s finest burlesque artists to Perth yet also demonstrated the strength and variety of the local scene."

The Tease Factory — Paul Meek. Perth Photo: John Leonard Photography

Leg Business
The Blue Room Theatre
September 2025
Reviewed for X-Press Magazine

"...playfully combined the detachment of online voyeurism with the body horror of David Cronenberg. It was a mixture unholy yet oddly alluring."

Leg Business — Paul Meek. Perth Photo: Phoebe Eames

Caged
The Edith Spiegeltent, Yagan Square
January 2020
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"Their power, strength, and flexibility are jaw dropping, all with that slow burn background sizzle, sparking to full heat several times."

Caged — Paul Meek. Perth The Edith Spiegeltent, Yagan Square Saturday, January 18 2020 Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the Weimar Republic circa 1929, transported effortlessly to Yagan Square by Perth troupe Kinetica. Can the awe inspiring wow factor of circus merge with the steamy, gritty nature of cabaret? Cage

Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Cheeky Sparrow
January 2020
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"The awkwardness, jealousy, and possessiveness of new bonds, to trying new things, and failing, and kicking oneself, it is all believable."

Manic Pixie Dream Girl — Paul Meek. Perth Cheeky Sparrow Thursday, January 23 2020 An ingénue, with neither agency nor personality, merely a cipher for the damaged/lovesick/resentful male protagonist, usually to unlock something profound about himself. An overused trope in pop culture. Think Penny from early Big Bang Theory, Summer

BurLEZque: Spellbound
Megamouth, Yagan Square
January 2020
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"The music choices are inspired, going from the latest Grammy winners, to 19th Century orchestral pieces, to bass-lines so deep they’ll devour souls."

BurLEZque: Spellbound — Paul Meek. Perth Megamouth, Yagan Square Tuesday, January 28 2020 Burlezque – they are the granddaughters of the witches unburnt. Perth’s first all-queer burlesque troupe have gone from strength to strength since they formed 18 months ago, having a two night FRINGE WORLD run last year, winning a weekly cab

Worship - The Gilded Edition
Connections Nightclub
February 2020
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"There is no MC to guide the audience in gently. This is high art, in capital letters. The acts are mournful, angular, jagged, obsessed."

Worship - The Gilded Edition — Paul Meek. Perth Connections Nightclub Monday, February 3 2020 Journey to the dark underbelly of Perth cabaret, performance art, and avant-garde surrealism. Welcome to Worship – the Gilded Edition. Foxglove Productions make a return to FRINGE WORLD after premiering Worship (the ungilded) last year. Their

Carousel
De Parel Spiegeltent, Woodside Pleasure Gardens
February 2020
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"And then into all this, Brisbane powerhouse and headliner Lila Luxx descends, like an alien spacecraft onto the fair fields of Western Australia."

Carousel — Paul Meek. Perth De Parel Speigeltent, Woodside Pleasure Gardens Tuesday, February 11 2020 Sugar Blue Burlesque is one of Perth’s premier performing troupes – they are undoubtedly our busiest. Together with Tease Industries, this FRINGE WORLD season they bring us Carousel, going back to the Ziegfeld Follies

Sideshow Femmes
Windsor Hotel, South Perth
February 2020
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"Surely it wasn't real, one watcher asked of the staple gun. Yes, it was, the performer answered post-show, the puncture marks in her skin front and centre."

Sideshow Femmes — Paul Meek. Perth Windsor Hotel, South Perth Thursday, February 13 2020 Whips and power tools, broken glass and staple guns, oh my! Welcome to Sideshow Femmes, a night out with the women mothers warned their sons (and daughters) about. Bringing to the centre of the stage the circus freaks that are usually p

Red Velvet R***e
The Ellington Jazz Club
January 2021
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"We can and do miss the rest of the world, but can and do hold our own with any other arts scene in the world."

Red Velvet R***e — Paul Meek. Perth The Ellington Jazz Club Friday, January 15 2021 Variety shows, eh? From multi-titled burlesque royalty one moment, to perhaps WA’s Next Big Thing five minutes later. The act after, switching it up, continually. Subiaco’s very own Lady Velvet Cabaret, who have been on the FRINGE WORLD stage

Gavin Nicklette: Cabaret Roulette
Girls School
January 2021
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"Each musical arrangement is deconstructed to the atomic level and reconstituted, deliciously."

Gavin Nicklette: Cabaret Roulette — Paul Meek. Perth Girls School Tuesday, January 26 2021 Behold! The Wheel of Chance! The fanciest roulette this side of Burswood, brought to you by Gavin Nicklette – WAAPA alumni, life-long performer – all gold and glitter, cat ears and enormous eye lashes. The setting is spartan: a microphone, a keyboard,

Dream Girl
The Sewing Room
January 2021
Reviewed for Fringefeed

"The truth will set you free, they say. Even along our country’s back roads. It just hurts like heck getting there."

Dream Girl — Paul Meek. Perth The Sewing Room Wednesday, 27 January 2021 Local troupe The Red Velvet Effect return to FRINGE WORLD with their new original, Dream Girl, a tale of teenage discovery, same s*x love, rejection, and hope, in small town Australiana. We enter this world where everyone knows everyone, everyone d

Somebody to Love
Connections Nightclub
October 2021
Self-published on artist's Facebook

"Tory’s voice both soars towards and holds the high notes, while simmering on the pieces more sultry."

Somebody to Love — Paul Meek. Perth Somebody to Love 22 Oct Written By Paul Meek Connections NightclubFriday, October 22 2021Prolific local artist Tory Kendrick brings us her first solo cabaret, her first production, Somebody to Love. An ode to online dating as the five stages of grief. On the main stage at Connections even, but no li...