 reviewed by Thomas LaHood 8 May 2010 |
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A moving, meaningful and valuable experience Built on foundations of storytelling convention but drawing in multimedia elements from the visual arts, musical composition and documentary film-making, Girl With No Words presents an extremely thoughtful and intelligent investigation into how we can listen to, understand and finally care for ‘cutters’ – that is, people who self-mutilate in order to appease their inner turmoil. [more] |
 THE COMEDIETTES: BETTER LIVING! (NZ) at BATS reviewed by Hannah Smith 7 May 2010 |
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Energetic, slick and stylish The Comediettes: Better Living would make great skits for a late night TV show. Their combination of handy home hints and off-the-wall musical numbers is quirky, original and would easily garner a cult following. Kitsch is the new cool. [more] |
 SAMMY J & RANDY IN RICKETTS LANE (AUS) at Downstage Theatre reviewed by Simon Sweetman (The Dominion Post) 7 May 2010 |
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Ha ha, that’s a swearing sock Australian comic act Sammy J and Randy is comprised of the "skinny guy", Sammy J (Sam McMillan), and "the purple one", a puppet named Randy (skilfully handled by Heath McIvor). Following up on 2008's audacious musical Sammy J and the Forest of Dreams (which played at last year's comedy festival), we have Ricketts Lane, somewhat stripped back considering McIvor has only one puppet to deal with this time. But Randy is, in all senses of the word, a handful. [more] |
 JAN MAREE: EAT ME! at Sandwiches reviewed by Priyanka Bhonsule 7 May 2010 |
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Family, food and love: both funny and moving It is no easy task to cook, talk and be funny but Jan Maree manages to do all three for two very entertaining hours.* Eat Me is the second part of the series Maree started in 2007 where she uses her life experiences, family recipes and stories to create a relatively “out there” concept of cookery and comedy. [more] |
 RAYBON KAN: THE DISCOMFORT ZONE (NZ) at The Elliot Stables, 39 Elliot St, City reviewed by Nik Smythe 7 May 2010 |
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Precocious verbal dissection He claims to own us, being his audience, and feels a connection to the crowd given that to be able to afford to go out in Auckland city we must be loaded, like him; Raybon wears his well-off yuppie ego on his smartly tailored sleeve. [more] |
 DON’T SPIT THE WATER (NZ) at Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre reviewed by Nik Smythe 6 May 2010 |
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The wetness of laughter The idea is kind of a tame version of the odd conceptual contests on TV’s Distraction. An all-local cast of character-driven comedians compete in their quest to get the audience-picked players, whose cheeks are filled with water, to squirt it out by causing them to laugh uncontrollably. Emcee Te Radar’s versatile capabilities seem to easily stretch to Gameshow Host ... [more] |
 MRS PEACOCK: NATURE’S BEAST at Comedy Underground, 305 Queen St reviewed by Nik Smythe 6 May 2010 |
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Parody, PowerPoint and anarchic charm The audacious deadbeats bring us on a regional journey around all the main centres, again distilling the essence of each area’s musical culture to a basic stereotypical formula, which they then demonstrate with their own example. [more] |
 LEVIN FOR BEGINNERS (NZ) at Katipo Cafe & Bar, 76 Willis St reviewed by Lyne Pringle 6 May 2010 |
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Regional non-delivery A bunch of comedians with origins in small town New Zealand attempt to distil the essence of their roots. There is good potential in the material but the show fails to ignite. [more] |
 TIC TIC (NZ) at Limelight Lounge, Aotea Centre reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 6 May 2010 |
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Comic but deeply personal take on Tourette’s At the more refined end of the Comedy Fest spectrum is an elegant memoir chronicling Paul Barrett's life-long engagement with Tourette's syndrome. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 6 May 2010 |
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He gives a damn which makes him worth it Despite his being a ukulele-hating (I love them!) smoker (why pay all that extra tax to suffer ill health and shorten your life?) who is dismissive of whimsy and burlesque (both are fine by me), Jeremy Elwood delivers a compelling, thought-provoking hour. [more] |
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