 reviewed by Nik Smythe 27 Jun 2010 |
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Comical Kiwiana Epic The central aspect of playwright Albert Belz’s latest offering is a nostalgic feel-good homage to the classic Maori show-bands that took the world by storm from the 50s to the 70s. Probably the most famous archetypal specimen back home was the Howard Morrison Quartet, but the most successful internationally was Prince Tui Teka’s Volcanics, which the fictional title band’s name loosely references. [more] |
 reviewed by Terri Ripeka Crawford 26 Jun 2010 |
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The future is bright [Pars 4 & 5 added, 27/6] The Kôwhiti 2010 premiere performance programme is a mix of avant garde, ceremonial, ambitious and contentious performances. There is no visible ideology underpinning the selections of works within the programme, nor is there a sense of being taken through a journey of a selected best of Mâori Contemporary Dance. [more] |
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reviewed by Jennifer Shennan (The Dominion Post) 26 Jun 2010 |
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Pathos and Power This enterprising Kowhiti programme has considerable contrast of aesthetic, lyricism, humour, pathos and power. [more] |
 reviewed by Nik Smythe 26 Jun 2010 |
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Inspired programming Having 30-odd chilly audience members assembled at the Basement to see two hours of original humour when most shows are just getting out assists greatly with the post-adolescent awkwardness of its protagonists, which is a central feature of the girls’ comedy. [more] |
 reviewed by Barbara Frame (Otago Daily Times) 25 Jun 2010 |
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Play – and play within a play – highly enjoyable We all know about plays within plays, those little episodes where actors playing actors perform a short drama that usually relates in some way to the main plot. [more] |
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reviewed by Janet McAllister (New Zealand Herald) 25 Jun 2010 |
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Raising the roof with showband Titans Quick, someone get this band an agent. A homage to the Maori showbands of the 1960s, the Titanics have all the harmonies, musicality, glamour and humour of their heroes. [more] |
 HEROIC FAUN NUMBER ONE at Basement Theatre-return season reviewed by Lillian Richards 24 Jun 2010 |
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A sad and humorous musing on the reducing of great actors to mere props Watching Gregory Cooper perform his one man show about the nuances, idiosyncrasies, core cast member encounters, supplication, waste, exhaustion and aggravation of being an extra on a blockbuster Hollywood film such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is a thrilling, indulgent, quirky and authentic rollercoaster ride. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 21 Jun 2010 |
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Universal and timeless home truths captured en route Pip Hall’s Up North brings us 17 year-old trainee nurse Maggie from Christchurch, who has been sent up north to have her child and adopt it out. In many ways she is the middle class Pakeha equivalent of Queenie (also 17) in Bruce Mason’s The Pohutukawa Tree (set in the late 1940s), intuitively embracing notions of sexual freedom while nurturing romantic fantasies of nuclear family bliss. [more] |
 reviewed by Lindsay Clark 20 Jun 2010 |
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Honest insights and humour as Lawrentian ideals face practical realities Plays spun from the lives of literary figures seem to be on the increase, perhaps because we feel we have instant entry to their private thoughts, at least as they have been aired in the publishing process. Amy Rosenthal’s bright new play however, says less about the writers involved than the strenuous and deeply comic stresses of friendship and love. [more] |
 reviewed by Terri Ripeka Crawford 20 Jun 2010 |
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Style, wit and slapstick presented with function, expression and deeply embedded historical narrative Tirohia atu e ko nga whetu, e ko Matariki, e arau ana. A still and crisp eve in Kirikiriroa; the energy of Te Whare Tapere o Waikato is subdued, but a willing audience gathers for the second night and variation programme of Atamira Dance Company’s Matariki short works tour. [more] |
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