2023 Weekly Award Winners

When you see the Weekly Award Winners announced, take note! They're a hot tip for great shows you need to check out in the 2023 Festival line-up. Check them out below!

 

Cabaret & Variety Weekly Award Winners

Presented by JCDecaux

Week 1 Winners:

Briefs: Dirty Laundry

Cabaret at the Ballroom

Matt Tarrant: FATE

Week 2 Winners:

Perth Cabaret Collective: Ella, Louis & Frank

Kings Of Boylesque: The Boys are Back in Town!

The Purple Rabbit

Week 3 Winners:

Dolly Parton: Backwoods Barbie

Happy Endings

Tash York's Happy Hour

Week 4 Winners:

YUMMY ICONIC

Week 5 Winners:

LENNOX: Legend in my Living Room

SLAMARET

 

Children's Event Weekly Award Winners

Presented by City of Perth

Week 1 Winners:

Morgan James' Pocket Sized Circus!

Strictly Barking

The Listies - Make Some Noise!

Week 2 Winners:

A Royal Wish

Week 3 Winners:

Wilbur the Optical Whale

Week 4 Winners:

BasketballMan Can Fly

The Dark Room for Kids

 

Circus Weekly Award Winners

Presented by MadFish Wines 

Week 1 Winners:

Sinsuality: Heaven & Hell

Bubble Show for Adults Only 2

The Détectives In Cirque Noir

Week 2 Winners:

Assume People Like You

Week 3 Winners:

Laser Kiwi - Rise of the Olive

Werk It

Outrageous

Week 5 Winner:

ORACLE

 

Comedy Weekly Award Winners

Presented by Gage Roads Brew Co.

Week 1 Winners:

Anna Piper Scott: Such An Inspiration

Gabbi Bolt - Odd Sock

Nicola Macri: Single Entendre

Week 2 Winners:

Daniel Muggleton: How The Whitey Have Fallen

300 Paintings

Damian Callinan - Double Feature

Improv DnD Presents: Call of Cthulhu

Week 3 Winners:

Amy Hetherington: Juggle

John Robertson: The Dark Room

Jacques Barrett - The Special

Week 4 Winners:

Cool Show Sixty-Nine

Drag Show The Game Show

Week 5 Winners:

DILRUK JAYASINHA - HEART STOPPER

ROVE MCMANUS - AWESOME SAUCE

 

Community & Special Events Award

Presented by Lotterywest

Week 1 Winners:

The Sound of Drums!

Week 2 Winners:

DIVAS - The Drag Brunch

 

Dance & Physical Theatre Award Winners

Presented by ABC Perth Radio

Week 1 Winners:

Twerk Noir: Through the Ages

The Underground: El Escándalo

Week 2 Winners:

SOLEADO Flamenco

Ignorance Was Bliss

Week 4 Winners:

HE HIM HOMME

The Showhouse Perth Presents 'THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL'

 

Music & Musicals Weekly Award Winners

Presented by Nova 93.7

Week 1 Winners:

The 60 Four: In Concert

Music of Frank Sinatra & Nat King Cole feat Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys

Week 2 Winners:

Calm

Feeling Way Too Good: Songs of Michael Buble

Week 3 Winners:

A Salama Odyssey: Creole Music and Dance Celebration

Barrelhouse Band feat. Jessie Gordon, Bill Lawrie and Jon Knox-Matthews

Massaoke: Sing The Musicals

The Hoe-down!

Week 4 Winners:

Enjoy Yourself with Jessie Gordon

Candlelit Valentine's Concert - Simone Craddock

Rhapsody in Chicago Blues

Week 5 Winners:

Jessie Gordon Quits the Band

AME ~ undaunted by rain

Always Wine in Shiraz

Simone Swings Kylie!

 

Theatre & Performance Weekly Award Winners

Presented by Kleenheat

Week 1 Winners:

The Man with the Golden Hands

Camino Man

Colossal

VEHICLE

Week 2 Winners:

Art (a play by Yasmina Reza)

Week 3 Winners:

NAUGHTY BOY: Eddy Brimson

Week 4 Winners:

Secrets and Clues, with Stuart Lightbody

Grief Lightning: A Satire in 78 Slides

Week 5 Winners:

A Southern Fairytale

 

Visual Arts & Film Weekly Award Winners

Week 3 Winners:

Distance and Displacement

Week 5 Winners:

Light and Joy. Exploring Self in Nature.

 

Perth Now Critics Choice Award

Presented by Perth Now

Week 1 Winners:

Strictly Barking

Josh Glanc: It's great to be here

Week 2 Winners:

Anna Piper Scott: Such An Inspiration

Daniel Muggleton: How The Whitey Have Fallen

Karen From Finance is Doing Time

Party Pooper

Week 3 Winners:

Jon and Ollie: Put the Kettle On

The Dark Room For Kids

Ross Noble - On The Go

Week 4 Winners:

Snatch and Grab

Pear

Dane Simpson: Didgeridoozy