 GABRIEL PAGE: L IS FOR LOVE, LOVE IS FOR LOSERS (NZ) at Bodega Bar: The Burgundy Room reviewed by Maryanne Cathro 25 Feb 2010 |
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Witty, funny, musically very good: a Fringe highlight Gabriel Page’s show is all about Love songs. Love songs about the kinds of love that don’t usually get sung about. His take is that the usual love songs misrepresent the realities of love, and he proves this point with a short treatise on why Huey Lewis’s song ‘The Power of Love’ is factually inaccurate. [more] |
 IRREPRESSIBLE URGE at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 24 Feb 2010 |
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A ‘scan read’ of the roles stories play in our lives Storytelling is a particularly human preoccupation that permeates our lives more than we may realise. It comes in many forms, styles and genres, which may offer us the means of escape, access to ‘truth’ or both, simultaneously. [more] |
 BACK/WORDS at BATS reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 24 Feb 2010 |
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Absolutely worth it Back/words is documentary/verbatim theatre which is nothing new but I find always fascinating. Everyone has stories worth hearing and the 13 people who shared their stories with the cast, and through them to us, certainly did have experiences worth hearing about. [more] |
 A LOVE TAIL at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 24 Feb 2010 |
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Skilfully co-ordinated creativity Devised theatre can achieve excellence and A Love Tail proves it. Inspired – along with thousands of other stories – by Romeo and Juliet’s ‘star-crossed lovers’, this puts a twist in the tale by inverting it: we know long before they do each is not what the other thinks. And in the end … [more] |
 FOR REAL at Basement Theatre, Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 24 Feb 2010 |
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Unforgettable performances For Real comes from Christchurch’s Original Scripts Youth Company. It’s brilliant and insightful and daring. The actors each perform a part of a teen’s subconscious. [more] |
 WHO’S NEAT? YOU! at ‘Happy Healthy Hangout’ - meet @ BATS reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 24 Feb 2010 |
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Edgy fun Fringe shows performed outside of the usual theatre venues are always an event, and the mobile classroom/container that hosts Who’s Neat? You! is no exception. [more] |
 reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 24 Feb 2010 |
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Drama engages too late The Fallen from Grace hair salon is the venue for a new work from the multi-award winning team behind Hotel, which was performed in a hotel room. This is a commissioned play so there is a decent budget for high end publicity and a stellar cast; high expectations too of course. [more] |
 reviewed by Barbara Frame 23 Feb 2010 |
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Comedy with a dark tinge allowed to grow old gracefully Comparisons with the Fortune’s last production, Four Flat Whites in Italy, are inescapable. Both plays are by Roger Hall, and both are dark-around-the-edges comedies featuring middle-aged couples with shaky marriages and prickling awareness of their own mortality. [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 23 Feb 2010 |
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Actors’ attention to detail shines ... Salon soon immerses itself and its audience in the cross-currents of the needs, desires, guilt, and transient emotions of ordinary people who are seen refracted by the mirrors all around the salon in tantalizing glimpses of relationships that are never fully explained but left mysterious, possibly too mysterious at times. [more] |
 reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 22 Feb 2010 |
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Lonely hearts club saga delivers plenty of laughs In skewering the excruciating ineptitude of assorted misfits and losers, it treads a fine line between merciless schadenfreude and the cathartic laughter that comes from confronting our own deeply rooted fear of social embarrassment. [more] |
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