 (NOT) THE ALL INDIA RADIO SHOW at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 7 May 2008 |
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Not ready In their media release, having listed their past triumphs (click on title above), The Untouchables Theatre Collective goes on to proclaim: “For their third show, they may just disappoint them all … Cast members are dropping off like flies, funding applications are being rejected and only half of the show has been written. This isn’t fake news, it’s a car crash and they’ll be bloody lucky if this thing makes it to stage!” The programme reveals (Not) the All India Radio Show was “devised over two weeks with community actors & Toi Whakaari graduates.” Two weeks”? It shows, and my inclination is to say it’s just not ready and leave it at that. [more] |
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(NOT) THE ALL INDIA RADIO SHOW at BATS reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 10 May 2008 |
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Muddled, arbitrary, long The (Not) The All India Radio Show is part of the NZ International Comedy Festival and is a devised work that took a group of community (amateur?) actors and a couple of Toi Whakaari graduates two weeks to create. I am surprised it took them that long on the evidence of their confused revue sketches which never took off as the group tried to mine some humour from an overused formula. [more] |
 10 DAYS ON EARTH at Maidment reviewed by Nik Smythe 16 Mar 2007 |
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Verbal, visual, sad, funny and thought-provoking While the dialogue is heavily spiced with humour, the play is essentially a touching human drama centred around Darrel, a middle-aged simpleton and his relationship with his neurotic mother. His incessant tangental rambling would be much more annoying than it is were he not so harmless and genuine. [more] |
 11 AND 12 at St James Theatre reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 11 Mar 2010 |
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There is Brook’s truth, your truth and the truth Since the 1960s Peter Brook has been searching for the essence of theatrical performance. His fervid dedication of almost monastic severity has led him to question centuries of accumulated theatrical practices, beliefs and shibboleths. [more] |
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11 AND 12 at St James Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 11 Mar 2010 |
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Loses its sense of purpose ... Am I expecting too much, then, of 11 and 12? I wouldn’t have thought so, even if Peter Brook is 85 now. If ever we needed a play that threw light on the apparently unstoppable phenomenon of religious wars, tribal massacres and sectarian violence that litter our news media every day, it is now. And who better than Brook to play midwife to a play sourced from the true life experiences of Sufi mystic Tierno Bokar? [more] |
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11 AND 12 at St James Theatre reviewed by Mark Amery (New Zealand Herald (online only)) 11 Mar 2010 |
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Political theatre at its most quiet 11 and 12 travels to New Zealand carrying a lot of cultural baggage. Ironic given that over forty years ago director Peter Brook arguably revolutionised the British stage with the concept of the empty space. [more] |
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11 AND 12 at St James Theatre reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 17 Mar 2010 |
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Failed to fire New Zealand has waited decades to see one of [Peter Brook's] productions. But while I was hoping for something visionary, like The Arrival or 360, we saw a quiet, meditative, intellectual and worthy piece of theatre about great topics like colonisation or religious fanaticism [more] |
 2 B OR NT 2 B? at Downstage Theatre reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 10 May 2008 |
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Comic gem from a serious subject Performed by six of Sarah Delahunty’s senior drama students, 2b or nt 2b? takes six famous characters from dramatic literature, including Hamlet, Hedda Gabler, and Antigone, and merges them with six troubled, alienated, confused, muddled modern teenagers with laptops and cell phones who all meet up on The Bridge to Nowhere (probably somewhere near Foxton) after linking up on www.whatsthepoint.com. [more] |
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2 B OR NT 2 B? at Downstage Theatre Bar reviewed by John Smythe 20 Feb 2008 |
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2b or not 2b needs to be everywhere In the past I have got very excited about writer/ director Sarah Delahunty’s challenging revisitings of ancient folk tales, in Superbeast (2006) and Eating The Wolf (2005 – review now appended to the Superbeast one on this site). Now she has found the seriously comic resonant links between six classically tragic characters and today’s angst-ridden teenagers. [more] |
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2 B OR NT 2 B? at Downstage Theatre Bar reviewed by Helen Sims (The Lumiere Reader) 19 Feb 2008 |
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An excellent idea, intelligently realised 2 b or nt 2 b? takes six characters from six classic plays and re-envisages them as 2008 teenagers, replete with cell phones, computers and plenty of angst. Writer and director Sarah Delahunty wrote the play for her senior drama class – obviously to extend their knowledge of classics, but also to help them connect with the feelings of characters without complexities of language or changing social mores getting in the way. [more] |
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