Originally posted here. The dense three week cheesecake of the comic that is the Comedy festival kicked off last Sunday with First Laughs. A smorgasboard of some of the talents available during the coming weeks, it was a wonderful (if long) way to kick off the giggles. Ben Hurley MC’d with wit, aplomb and a… [Read more…]
April 26, 2010
Your Horoscopes for the week starting the 26th of april If You Were Born in January—Jupiter is playing dodgems with your memory constellations. This means that in the coming week you will forget who you are. Totally. I recommend starting a whole new life. Your old one wasn’t up to much. If You Were Born… [Read more…]
April 26, 2010
Originally posted here. Sarah Ruhl, who wrote last year’s Circa schtizo-tepid giggle-fest The Clean House, returns to the hallowed hollow of Circa One with Dead Man’s Cell Phone. It’s about Jean, a woman (rather tellingly those two signifiers are reversed in the programme) played aptly by Mel Dodge, who, while in a café, discovers the… [Read more…]
April 19, 2010
Originally published here. Goldilocks and the Three Queers is the third in Short Term Visitor Parking’s trilogy of radical re-imaginings of fairy tales. To be honest, it’s not a great way to go out. Goldilocks had a preview season during the Fringe this year. My review of that season is available on the spanky Salient… [Read more…]
March 29, 2010
Originally posted here. So, you were born during Summer, I can tell. No, it’s not because of your irrationally smiley disposition. It’s not because of your bottle blonde hair cutting a sear across everyone’s retinas. It’s definitely not because you seem clinically unable to end a sentence with anything other than “…so yeah.” It’s how… [Read more…]
March 29, 2010
Originally published here. This week at BATS theatre, explosive theatrical deconstructionistas the Binge Culture Collective (www.bingeculture.co.nz), of generally being awesome fame, are restaging two of their works from last year. Under the umbrella title of Elimination Rounds, they are revisiting, revising and revitalising the second and third parts of their informal Panda Trilogy—Drowning Bird, Plummeting… [Read more…]
March 29, 2010
Originally published here. I have previously talked about the overriding feeling of this year’s Fringe being one of the workshop. The work in progress, the trying out. It was a Fringe of shivers of excitement as toes were dipped into theatre-flavoured waters, rather than the sudden high dives and belly flops of previous years. This… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
Originally published here. If your name begins with A you need to diversify your breakfast routine. Porridge is good, but another three days of that grey yum muck is a good brick in the scurvy wall. If your name begins with B you need to get better dance moves. Shakey spack in glitter halls is… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
Originally published here. 360. 12 – 21 March at Te Whaea. The central gimmick of this show, that you sat in swivel chairs as the action occurred all around you with you turning to follow it, was by far and away the most appealing part of the work. While Bruce Philips gives a wonderful, evocative… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
Originally published here. The Pick of the Fringe is a newly grown tradition at Downstage Theatre. In generous and sexy support of young theatre, they have, for a third year running, chosen the some of the choicest cuts of the recently completed Fringe festival and given them a further run in the hallowed halls of… [Read more…]
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