 reviewed by John Smythe 13 Feb 2008 |
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Development issues Already deserving accolades for their phenomenal publicity campaign (winning feature articles in every possible publication) The Wombling Strumpets – Kate McGill and Sophie Hambleton – offer something more than a fitting tribute to a day in the lives of lingerie retailers. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 2 Mar 2008 |
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Relaxed, chatty and festive Wasps is Aristophanes' satirical jibe at the bloated jury system in Athens, or rather the self-serving practices of jurors and those who employed them, under the political leadership of Cleon, at the height – in 422BC – of his demagogic powers. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 5 Mar 2008 |
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Lifestyles of the rich and idle This particular group of three Reagan-era American youths – Upper West Side Manhattanites, ‘college’-age but vocationally challenged – are the kind of ‘cream’ that coagulates above the ordinary folk in all their rich, fat and bad-for-everyone glory. Boy can they go off. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2008 |
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Poor show This Clarity Productions staging of John Godber’s Bouncers, judiciously relocated from northern England in the early 1980s to here and now, would not inspire anyone to think it deserved a nation-wide tour. Yet twenty-plus years ago that’s exactly what happened with William Walker’s smash hit Centrepoint production of Bouncers. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2008 |
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Try it on, it may well suit you From atop a shoe mountain, her memories provoked by specific items of footwear, Felicity tells us the story of her life as a sweetheart, wife and mother. By setting himself this discipline, playwright Jamie Burgess has fashioned a tightly constructed play of surprising depth, wit and humanity. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 18 Mar 2008 |
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Cute Kiwi’s quest for survival gets fearfully exciting Adapted and directed by Peter Wilson and designed by John Hodgkins, with puppets designed and created by Sue Hill and shadow puppets by Debz Ruffell, it is true to the book in key respects. Where Bishop suggests the daytime activities of humans in pictorial panels tucked in around the text and images of the substantive story, the dramatised version uses a sun to tell us it’s day and shadow puppets in stylised settings to depict tribal warfare, the felling of trees, the land wars, the death of a chief, a tangi … [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 27 Mar 2008 |
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This is not a review This is a place-holder for the Wellington Season, so that other reviews can be added. My invitation to review this production was withdrawn. Here’s what happened: [more] |
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GLORIOUS! at Civic Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 4 Apr 2008 |
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Victim of ridicule or beloved for her positive outlook against all odds? If the story wasn’t true Glorious! would be tosh. But Florence Foster Jenkins was real. The title of one of her posthumous LPs says it all: ‘Murder on the High Cs’. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 9 Apr 2008 |
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Accessible, relevant and provocative play delivered with entertaining fluency and flair ... By dropping the unknown Tommy Morehu into the well-known Jack Lovelock story, playwright Dean Parker sketches a class ridden heritage at odds with the egalitarian myth, traverses 72 years of political conflict and change, mounts a strong argument for politics being inextricable from sport and prods our collective conscience in the build up to the Beijing Olympics 2008. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 11 Apr 2008 |
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Minimalist comic style a delight The source of Peter Oswald’s “appalling mistranslation of a Roman comedy”, now called The Storm, is Rudens (The Rope) by Titus Maccius Plautus … Director Alexandra Lodge saw The Storm in 2005 at the Globe Theatre in London … But there is no sense of imitation in [this] execution of the lengthy script. Collectively and individually they make the story and their characters very much their own. [more] |
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