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BUSTIN'OUT - HAGLEY DANCE COMPANY at Hagley Open Stage reviewed by Julia Milsom 10 Dec 2011 |
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A passion for dance seen in 14 short works The works are presented across a diverse range of forms, choreographed by both students, tutors and local professional choreographers. This is a reflection of the full and rich syllabus these students have been exposed to during the year, including improvisation, spoken word, ballet, Karate, acrobatics, theatre and film. A number of the choreographers are graduates of the Hagley program. [more] |
 reviewed by Helen Watson White 10 Dec 2011 |
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Disciplined ensemble excellence aloows lightness and merriment to thrive "You'd be surprised how gullible people are," says Noel Coward's "blithe spirit", "We often laugh about it on the other side." It's good they can laugh, actually, because -- as his Madama Arcati remarks -- "We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one." [more] |
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reviewed by Barbara Frame (Otago Daily Times) 10 Dec 2011 |
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Coward’s favourite well presented Blithe Spirit has been a favourite since the 1940s, and Brian Beresford’s production of Noël Coward’s chilly comedy of supernatural contact gone wrong makes it easy to see why it’s so popular. [more] |
 reviewed by Candice Lewis 9 Dec 2011 |
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Nicely charcoaled humour for the silly season Sainsbury has created six highly entertaining mini plays that invite us to be the proverbial fly on the wall. Each vignette segues into another, getting progressively darker. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (Dominion Post) 9 Dec 2011 |
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Reminder about elderly, lonely The great Tom Lehrer wrote that “Christmas time is here, by golly, / disapproval would be folly”. In the comedy-drama Silent Night Irene McMunn, an elderly widow living on her own certainly doesn’t disapprove and her unit, while not decked with “hunks of holly,” does have a tree and decorations amongst her family photos and mementoes of Charles and Diana’s wedding. [more] |
 reviewed by Raewyn Whyte (NZ Herald) 8 Dec 2011 |
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Delightfully quirky A delightful quirky miscellany of approaches to contemporary dance comprise The Beaten Track, a collection of seven mostly solo works which branch out into new structures and movement vocabularies and offer seven very different moods and settings for the audience. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 8 Dec 2011 |
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Rambunctious, idiosyncratic, impressive, hypnotic, poignant, bizarre, memorable and icky-sticky Despite the jolly fat man who graced the Bats foyer on opening night, Chico Marx’s Fiorello (in A Night at the Opera) was right: “There ain’t no Sanity Clause.” These Toys are crazy! [more] |
 reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 8 Dec 2011 |
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Crazy Christmas night of actor-driven fun theatre Outfit Theatre's Christmas romp opens with a premise that is guaranteed to generate mayhem: a troupe of six seriously psychotic criminals on a community service programme are obliged to stage a Nativity play in a seedy resthome while a couple of con artists are plotting to murder the bewildered owner of the institution. [more] |
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reviewed by Aidan-B. Howard 7 Dec 2011 |
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Stress-relieving absurdist fun in frenetic spaghetti of activity Like many people, I hate Christmas. And I particularly hate the flood of schmaltzy, feel-good, same-old stories that this season brings. But the editor of this site urged me to set my cynicism aside. This play, A Criminal Christmas, he assured me, would be different… and he was right. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 7 Dec 2011 |
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Entertaining and finally moving gift There is humour and pathos-aplenty in Yvette Parsons’ beautifully modulated performance – directed by Stephen Papps – as she peels the onion of her story while navigating through a full range of emotional states. [more] |
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