 reviewed by Kerri Fitzgerald 25 Jul 2009 |
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Love’s flutter suffocated Flurries of feathers drift languidly in pools covering the stage to be shaken and stirred intermittently by the four dancers’ frenetic movements. The anguish of love, of pain and yearning, is played out for us amidst the white down, beautifully side-lit and accented with red. [more] |
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reviewed by Francesca Horsley (New Zealand Listener) 13 Aug 2009 |
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Caged by desire and rage Ankle-deep duck feathers coated the stage, their filaments catching the light as dancers shifted and slid through the drifts. But there was little warmth and scarce soft landings in Finders Keepers, Raewyn Hill’s fiercely uncompromising dance theatre at the Christchurch Arts Festival. [more] |
 reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 18 Jun 2007 |
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Highly charged That rugby is not only New Zealand’s national sport but for many a religion is a commonly held view. So when an incident occurs such as the sending home in 1972 of Keith Murdoch from Great Britain after the All Blacks beat Wales it becomes a talking point in nearly every home around the country. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 19 Jun 2007 |
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A memorable play of paradoxes My partner loved it and rugby is not her bag. But then it’s written by a woman about a woman’s desire to achieve and understand, and it’s directed by a woman, so I shouldn’t be surprised. Which isn’t to say rugby orientated blokes won’t like it too. Heading for the car (after the Monday 6.30 show) I bumped into the other Keith – Quinn of sportscasting fame – and asked him if he’d just been to Finding Murdoch. “Saw it on opening night,” he said. “It’s terrific. You should go.” [more] |
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reviewed by Helen Sims (The Lumiere Reader) 18 Jun 2007 |
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Great ensemble let down by script I gave always bemoaned the fact that New Zealand’s myths of national identity are bound up to a large extent with rugby – a game that (to my mind) lacks intelligence and subtlety. Finding Murdoch, a play based around the media pursuit of a rugby legend, Keith Murdoch, suffers from the same failings. [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 20 Jun 2007 |
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Theatre was the winner on the day “It’s not a story, it’s my life!” A plea from the heart from “the tragic long lost son of New Zealand rugby”, Keith Murdoch, to the journalist who scored the story the media was drooling over, by tracking him down in Queensland in the early 1990. That journalist was Margot McRae, young, ambitious yet principled and to an extent idealistic. TV was entering its new age ... [more] |
 reviewed by Nik Smythe 27 Jun 2008 |
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Takes a while to warm up In 1972 the All Blacks were touring the Welsh provinces when one night a famous but unclear violent incident occurred, resulting in the sending home of one Keith Murdoch, giant prop, beloved hero and apparent lynchpin to the team’s success ... Here is a play about the making of a 1990 documentary about an elusive key figure in a 1972 scandal shrouded in mystery, speculation and errant gossip. [more] |
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reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 30 Jun 2008 |
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Cast finds disgraced player who ‘went bush’ Keith Murdoch's controversial dismissal from the 1972 All Black touring squad after an altercation with a Welsh security guard should have become an inconsequential footnote to the colourful history of New Zealand rugby. [more] |
 FINDING MURDOCH at Q, 305 Queen St reviewed by Lexie Matheson 15 Oct 2011 |
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All credit to the boys and the girl Before crouch touch pause engage, Dan Carter rippling in his Jockeys, intimate peeks at the Rexona – refreshed armpits of All Blacks and Mils Muliaina slurping milk product from a tiny, crushable carton, rugby was a different game. No-one got paid, tours lasted three months or more ... [more] |
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FIREWORKS at Southern Cross Restaurant & Bar reviewed by John Smythe 30 Sep 2009 |
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Sizzles, glows, sparkles and flares ... an ingeniously crafted love story that reveals its true purpose through a gripping little break-and-enter and rob-the-safe scenario. A café/restaurant is the target and it gets complicated when two people – Daniel then Laura – turn up in the wee small hours to do the same job for different reasons. [more] |
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