 reviewed by David Stevens 8 Dec 2012 |
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Energy, imagination and inventiveness The Northland Youth Theatre has another small triumph on its hands with The Blue Airplane being presented at the Whangarei Girls High School. It is a piece of extraordinarily inventive theatre. [more] |
 reviewed by Jan Maree 3 Apr 2013 |
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Gruesome, smart, stupid, splendid: a thoroughly revolting romp! A great show has certain signs for me: I don't look at my watch, the time races by, the end comes too soon and of course, I desperately want a) more and b) to see it all over again. Dolly Mixture is such a show, and so much more. [more] |
 reviewed by Lucy O'Connor 15 Mar 2013 |
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Chicken fight Kiwi style I don't think I'm sadistic, but I certainly do enjoy a good old classic awkward moment. Raw Comedy. The opportunity for valiant members of the human species to take me on and ideally, prove me wrong. It is a cruel set up. [more] |
 reviewed by Heidi North-Bailey 19 Apr 2013 |
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Thought-provoking intrigue with laughter and song played with aplomb Midnight in Moscow is a new play from Dean Parker. Set in 1947, inside the New Zealand Legation in Moscow, 30 years after the Bolshevik revolution it revolves around the public and private lives of the legation staff. The play contrasts the relaxed sociable world inside the Legation, where no-one seems to do much except eat and drink, with the pressured political world of Soviet Russia just beyond their walls. [more] |
 reviewed by Charlotte Simmonds 26 Apr 2013 |
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A gay paradise where women are caricatures of straight girls?!? The show initially represents an alternate world which is a safe place for gay people and a dangerous place for straight people. Being a musical theatre piece of comedy, with light pop music, a large part of the satire on heterosexual ideas of normality is devoted to the overuse of traditional stereotypes. [more] |
 reviewed by Andrew Fuhrmann (The Age, Melbourne) 18 Feb 2013 |
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Dignity sacrificed in the quest for fame What does it mean that practically all of the hundred or so characters past and present from Neighbours have their own Wikipedia page but Irving Sayles, at one time among the most-famous entertainers in Australia, gets bupkis? That dark stars are indeed hard to see? [more] |
 reviewed by Simon Wilson (Metro-Arts-Auckland) 19 Apr 2013 |
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Breathtakingly beautiful There are fashions in violence – the Pulp Fiction gun held sideways came and went, and now, courtesy of Game of Thrones, there’s the sword slipped vertically inside the neck of the armour and run down into the body. Brutal. NZ Opera’s production of Madame Butterfly is up with that fashion ... [more] |
 reviewed by Cherie Moore 13 Mar 2013 |
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A fun journey ohn Pheloung appears on stage with his guitar and sets the scene with his rendition of the song ‘One Man Guy’. John doesn't appear as a character, but as himself. We who are watching appear not as an audience, but a group of friends to whom he will regale the details of his adventures, his hopes and his failures. [more] |
 reviewed by Joselyn Khor 13 Mar 2013 |
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Masterful subtlety in a smart piece of theatre We are given intimate insight into the turmoil, heartbreak and progressive disintegration of a relationship when verbal communication – the beacon of hope in every shrink’s repertoire of saving graces – fails, or is removed completely. [more] |
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TONGAN MORRIS MEN at Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre reviewed by Tania Kopytko 9 Mar 2013 |
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A wonderful and funny journey The story was a wildly unbelievable ruse which created the juxtapositions for all this exploration and a wonderfully funny but at times poignant tale. Morris dance needed a “Jonah Lomu” to survive: an English teacher and Morris dance master, Mr Stalk, was sent to New Zealand to find one. The students of St Bernard’s year 13 decided to complete NCEA by taking an easy dance paper, but to their horror found that the usual teacher had been replaced by the Morris dance master. [more] |
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