In 2010, The Blue Room Theatre celebrates the day 21 years ago that a bunch of local professional theatre makers got together and formed what has become WA’s leading membership and resource organization for independent performing artists.

A milestone such as this doesn’t come around often, so The Blue Room Theatre is celebrating with two play seasons that exemplify its aims and objectives to champion risk-taking performance; Old Enough to know better... and Young Enough to do it anyway, proudly supported by the City of Perth.

Old Enough..., April – July, sees Blue Room Theatre favourites mixing it up with professional newcomers. Together they will present the world premieres of five brand new plays; two fresh interpretations of work by renowned writers; and the WA premiere of the latest by multi award-winning Perth playwright Ian Wilding.

In April, This One Show (producers of 2008’s multiple award-winning Blue Room Theatre production Motortown) opens the season with Wilding’s October, a sinister parody of post-September 11 paranoia; while new collective Aleela Creatives ask whether we’re all destined to become our parents in a darkly comic musical, Mummy Loves You Betty Ann Jewel by AFI award-winning writer Suzanne Hawley.

May shines the spotlight on new local writing in a collaboration between David Moody and celebrated Tanzanian/West Australian filmmaker Martin Mhando – Witness – exploring how one tragic incident can be so many people’s different stories; and When Harry Met Harry is Allan Girod’s second solo show at The Blue Room Theatre, delving into the comedy that comes from one man’s challenge of self-improvement. See it ahead of its Canadian tour later this year.

June fights the winter chill with heated client/lawyer confrontations in the form of a new psychological drama by AWGIE-winning WA playwright Robert Jeffreys’, Darcy’s Defence; and Mondo Di Corpo’s Marisa Garreffa directs The Myth of Julian Rose by emerging playwright Daniel Kershaw, about a man whose buried memories are stirred up when he rediscovers a childhood story book.

July rounds off the season with The Wet Weather Ensemble taking on a play of humour and hypochondria in Sam Shepard’s Red Cross, one of the renowned playwright’s earliest and most experimental works; and ending with a bang not a whimper, Plink Plonk Productions showcase an array of never before seen illusions and magic mastery in a hand dancing spectacular, Spirit Fingers – complete with glitter, tiny helicopters, and choreography by Ludwig Productions.

But there’s no time to lower the curtain. Blue Room's next season Young Enough to do it anyway will follow hot on the heels, coinciding with the opening of a retrospective exhibition of The Blue Room Theatre’s history and memorabilia in August. Stay tuned for more details to be announced.

Old Enough to know better... launches on the closing night of The Blue Room Theatre 21 Summer Nights, a 4-week local performance showcase currently underway. To obtain your exclusive invitation to the launch event simply become a Blue Room Theatre member online at www.blueroom.org.au or in person at The Blue Room Theatre during office hours.