We start this week by saying welcome back to Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip for our regular Perth wrap which will include the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts presentation of When I Am Not Here which, you might recall we spoke about when it was in Melbourne, so we’ll catch up again with choreographer Shelley Lasica to find what her 40 year retrospective is doing in Perth…

 

Meanwhile, at Theatre Works, Francis Greenslade is showing us that in addition to being a well known and popular actor, he is also a writer and director…  and he’s here to talk about his production of The Platypus…

 

Then, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is about to pay tribute to legendary composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach with What the World Needs Now at Hamer Hall and the equally legendary Caroline O’Connor is here to tell us which selections from his amazing songbook she’ll be singing…

 

And finally, at Chapel off Chapel, Finucane and Smith are back with a new production of their not-quite-new play The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez and we’ll chat with playwright Jackie Smith, director Moira Finucane and actor Caroline Lee…

 

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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