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Major new works to be developed through WAAPA’s three-year residencies

Musical theatre artist Eddie Perfect and UK theatre company Cheek by Jowl are undertaking three-year residencies at WAAPA to deliver classes and assist students in developing new works.

7 Sep 2023 17:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

WAAPA Music Theatre students in the 2022 major production ‘Mack and Mabel’. Photo: Supplied.

An original Australian musical theatre production facilitated by Eddie Perfect (Beetlejuice, Shane Warne: the Musical) and a major new production from the Elizabethan/Jacobean canon developed by UK company Cheek by Jowl will premiere in 2026 as a result of two new three-year residencies hosted by the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

As previously reported by ArtsHub, ECU’s high-tech City Campus is being constructed at the edge of Yagan Square, adjoining Perth Railway Station and Perth’s major bus hub, and bridging the gap between the traditional Perth CBD and the Northbridge arts precinct.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts