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Fremantle’s Dark Corners - West End Edition

True historical drama, romance, and horror, is rendered in light on a round house, on a rocky cliff, above a turbulent ocean. Fremantle’s West End is one of the world’s best preserved 19th century port towns, full of dark corners, grand facades, and hidden stories. Walk its streets with us, as our lanterns reveal what lies beneath. Hear the dead speak for themselves, through letters, diaries, comments to the press, and testimonies in court. See the past projected onto the present. Dark Corners is a vivid style of storytelling, from the dark heart of Ross Vegas and Generosity Arts, where the latest technologies tell the oldest of tales. This is the future of history.

Fremantle’s rendition of Dark Corners is proudly supported by the City of Fremantle as part of the Fremantle Heritage Festival 2025. Delivered by the team who brought you Dark Corners in York (2024), Cockburn (2023), Fremantle (2023), Mandurah (2022) and Kwinana (2021). This tour is currently under development and will debut in May.

Generosity Arts is also developing renditions of Dark Corners for Cossack (July 2025), York (September 2025), and Manjimup (2026).

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About Dark Corners

As the dusk fades, the Night-watchman leads you on a journey through history, enchanting you with tales of former residents. From his lantern, shimmering figures emerge, painting pictures on the walls with light, before dissolving into the night. Dark Corners illuminates the past and brings the long-dead to life. The new technologies of projection-mapping and augmented reality enhance the oldest of art forms; true tales of the ancestors. The team works with archives, architecture, local historians, and first nations consultants, to create beautiful and haunting experiences of history.

See a video below from Kwinana's Dark Corners, filmed at Smirk's Cottage, Kwinana’s heritage precinct.

See photos below from Mandurah's Dark Corners which was commissioned by City of Mandurah and presented on the 14 & 15 of October as part of the Mandurah Arts Festival 2022.

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Participants in the Dark Corners Mandurah historical walking tour, listening attentively to the captivating stories while wearing silent headsets during the Mandurah Arts Festival 2022

A photograph captures the ghostly apparition of a long-dead sailor and his illuminated trike ship sailing across the serene waters of the Mandurah Tidal Pool, leaving audiences in awe with its ethereal ambiance.

Audience at the Mandurah Tidal Pool auditorium wearing silent headsets watching ghostly projection of Bessie Cowdrie during Dark Corners Mandurah historical walking tour

The ghostly blue projection of Bessie Cowdrie, masterfully performed by local actress Ruby Liddelow and brought to life with special effects and filming expertise of Jennie Friesen, with her white night dress and chestnut hair ebbing and flowing in the ocean waves resembling driftwood washed ashore.

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The Captain and the immortal Jellyfish listening to the tale of Robert Mewburn, as his ghost is projected for the audience, in a breathtaking photograph from Mandurah's Dark Corners.

Audience watching the ghostly projection of Robert Mewburn, a convict and the first schoolmaster of Mandurah, dressed in a traditional fisherman's yellow raincoat and hat, as he appeared when he discovered drowned bodies of Bessie Cowdrie and her traveling theater companions. Performed by Ross Vegas.

The Captain, the sailors and the ghost trike ship lead a group of fifty audience members on the Dark Corners Mandurah historical walking tour along the Eastern Foreshore

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Audience members gathered around the Night Watchman at Smirks Cottage in Kwinana, as he projected an image of Jack Hyman's carriage onto a sheet hanging on a clothes line during a historical walking tour.

A photograph of the Captain and the Jellyfish solemnly reflecting on the dark corners of Mandurah's history in front of a large-scale projection of fire illuminating a historic church during the Dark Corners Mandurah historical walking tour.

The Jellyfish captivating her audience with her intricate light-up umbrella and dress while sharing the rich histories of those buried in the surrounding graveyard, in front of a mesmerizing large-scale water display.

A hauntingly beautiful illuminated ghost trike ship navigates the night as if in a dream. A long dead sailor at its helm, performed by Ross Vegas surrounded by the true dark of the night and a mysterious cold fog.

The Night-watchman stands on the porch of the historic Smirks Cottage in Kwinana, illuminated by an electrifying display.

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The night-watchman with his mistress hoisting the sail of Smirk's Cottage as if to capture the moon projected onto it.

A bioluminescent jellyfish standing in front of a dark alley on the Eastern Foreshore of Mandurah with an illuminated umbrella and dress, inviting the viewer to join her on a journey.

A long-dead sailor and his illuminated trike ship being admired by two children as fifty audience members in silent headsets follow him on the Dark Corners Mandurah historical walking tour.

Local actor Hunter Perry performing as the red ghost of Steven Tuckey, radiating light from within, charismatically tipping his hat to the audience.

A group of 50 people wearing silent headsets listening to the captivating stories of Mandurah's Dark Corners historical walking tour, during the Mandurah Arts Festival 2022.

The cast of Mandurah's Dark Corners, Jennie Friesen as the stunning immortal Jellyfish, Angus Patterson as the Captain, and Howie Gaskin as the sailors of the ghost trike ship, with Mandurah's Councillor Ryan Burns, who exclaimed the show was a highlight of the festival.

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