 DANCING IN THE WAKE: THE STORY OF LUCIA JOYCE at Museum Hotel, Tamburini Room reviewed by Claire O'Neil 10 Feb 2012 |
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ReJoyce - Insightful and very well played The interplay of the characters in Lucia’s life reveal the complex nature of being a daughter of an obsessed writer who derived inspiration from her wayward behaviour, while it seems her every pore wants to be just as important as his work and treated more like a daughter than a muse. [more] |
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DANCING IN THE WAKE: THE STORY OF LUCIA JOYCE at Museum Hotel, Tamburini Room reviewed by Caoilinn Hughes 10 Feb 2012 |
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Harrowing and comic insights into unhappiness Reading about the life of aspiring Irish dancer Lucia Joyce – daughter of globally renowned writer James Joyce – Jan Bolwell was compelled to write a play about her tragic and divisive life, which “weaves the two art forms [dance and theatre] together to make a seamless whole,” according to her playwright’s note. Whether or not a ‘seamless whole’ is created within the playtext, the trio cast of this production is seamlessly convincing and wholly compelling. [more] |
 YOU BE THE ANGEL I BE THE GHOST at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 9 Feb 2012 |
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A writer in search of a play Because it’s a dream it has every right to eschew any semblance of sense, logic, coherence or dramatic structure that leads to an outcome informed by all that has gone before. Fair enough. But that means our interest in the random ‘content’ soon palls ... [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 9 Feb 2012 |
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Dazzling melange funny, haunting A melange of sharply defined scenes depicting everything from a beggar on the streets to a disillusioned rebel to a group of do-gooders looking for answers in personal feel-good mantras, to everyone looking for a saviour, to a person committing suicide, and someone who believes that technology will be the answer. [more] |
 reviewed by Lynn Freeman 9 Feb 2012 |
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Tension with possibility Thomas Sainsbury is one of the hardest working theatre practitioners in the country. I’ve lost count how many plays he’s written on top of writing TV’s Super City. [more] |
 SHORT + SWEET DANCE - GROUP 1 at Concert Chamber - Town Hall, THE EDGE reviewed by Raewyn Whyte 8 Feb 2012 |
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Good luck to the judges! As you might guess, a Short and Sweet Dance show is an unpredictable experience - it's entirely open slather and it's a tad difficult to conceive of the criteria the judges might be using as the basis of the competition. [more] |
 reviewed by Jonathan W. Marshall 6 Feb 2012 |
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Twisty/Straight, Ironic, Intriguing Smith’s episodic approach is characterised by a studied awkwardness and vexingly uncertain, self-conscious faux-seriousness. Smith never simply acts or expresses herself. She rather talks us though some of the more bizarre and ridiculous obsessions behind each act, no matter how logically incongruous they are, before striving to realise her own concepts, however inexactly. [more] |
 reviewed by Jenny Stevenson 5 Feb 2012 |
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The Light Dancing: dancing Performed in the setting of a natural amphitheatre in Waimangō, the work emerges out of the darkness with tenuous orbs of diffused light, which gleam momentarily before being swallowed by the void. Figures emerge as the eye adjusts to the dark, clutching woven baskets of the shimmering light against their bodies and then begin waving them aloft and arcing them through the air, as they proceed into movement formations. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 4 Feb 2012 |
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Highly recommended to non-passive theatre-goers Long Cloud Youth Theatre specialises in adolescent existential angst plays (adolexistangstial theatre?) and Tom Keeper Passes does it with an insightful humour that envelops us all in an all-too-familiar entropy. What can we do? [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 2 Feb 2012 |
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Delightful insightful comedy Down from Auckland, where it opened last October, Crims is another quirky comedy from Thomas Sainsbury, replete with oddball misfits seeking some sort of traction in this thing called life. The whys and wherefores of petty criminality is the focus, as a by-product of people feeling – and being – inadequate. [more] |
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