Perth’s resident theatre company’s 2015 season is packed with internationally acclaimed work.

Perth’s Black Swan State Theatre have announced a savvy mix of tried-and-tested, award-winning modern classics alongside some exciting new work by Australian talents for its 2015 season.  Unveiled last week at the State Theatre Centre’s Heath Ledger Theatre, Black Swan Artistic Director Kate Cherry characterised her selection for next year as a program to match the “fast-growing, dynamic city of the 21st century” that Perth has become in the new millennium. As such she has assembled a contemporary but highly accessible 2015 bill which also includes a musical and, for the first time, a new childrens’ production. It’s a clever strategy by Cherry: introducing work that has already been highly acclaimed internationally but may be new to West Ausatralian audiences and this will hopefully translate to full houses and glowing reviews for the company next year.

The most familiar production on offer will be directed by Cherry herself. Noël Cowards perennially popular paranormal comedy Blithe Spirit will be one of the flagship events in Perth’s Winter Arts Festival from mid-July until early August next year.

A more recent, but still highly lauded American play will also be on...