 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 29 Jan 2007 |
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Delicate touches of light and dark There is a remarkable confidence and sophistication in the writing, structure and mix of lightness and darkness in Leilani Unasa’s second play His Mother’s Son. ... [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Feb 2007 |
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Slickly presented fun At the end of the non-stop ninety minute Menopause a great number of the audience (mainly women but with a goodly sprinkling of men) was up on its feet applauding and cheering while fifty or so women were up on the stage dancing and singing along with the four indefatigable stars ... [more] |
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AS YOU LIKE IT at Botanical Gardens: The Dell reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 8 Feb 2007 |
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Clear summer’s day in The Dell With pigeons looking for crumbs from picnickers lying on the ground in front of the stage and with a lone morepork calling in the nearby bush in the calm summer’s evening it was easy to be transported to the Forest of Arden and Shakespeare’s enigmatic pastoral vision where people ‘fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world’. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Feb 2007 |
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Tantalising mystery mixes the moral and political Lauded with over 20 awards including a Pulitzer Prize John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: a Parable is a surprisingly old-fashioned, Rattiganesque play and is at one level a tantalizing mystery, set in a Catholic school in the Bronx of 1964, about whether a Catholic priest is a pedophile or not, and at another level it is a parable that raises questions about the current moral and political climate in the United States. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Feb 2007 |
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Nostalgic good time Oh, it’s great being out with the jokers/ When the jokers are sparkling and bright; / Yeah, it’s great giving cheek to the sheilas, /Down the hall on Saturday night. Peter Cape’s famous song has a rural setting and is all about Saturday night entertainment in the 50s [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 15 Mar 2007 |
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Inspirational novel fails to translate Bent Not Broken is an autobiography by Dr Lauren Roche, a Wellingtonian whose early life, to put it mildly, was a difficult one. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 19 Mar 2007 |
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Tense, tangled and morally demanding What a pleasure it is to see a meaty play that has a large cast with some new faces, lasts more than hour and has been given a good solid production with plenty of attack under Bruce Phillips’s swift direction ... [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 22 Mar 2007 |
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Songs in the way second time round Fourteen years ago I raved about the world premiere of Sunset Café when it was presented at Bats Theatre under the direction of its author, Gary Henderson. While it’s great that New Zealand plays are revived as often as they are these days, revivals do give us a chance to revise our initial thoughts. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 26 Mar 2007 |
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Song of lamentation The amazingly prolific playwright Paul Rothwell, who writes idiosyncratic, bleakly comic, troubling plays, is back again for the second time this year with a tale about a roller-skating animal lover who likes to think of herself as a vet but is in fact only an ex-voluntary assistant to a vet. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Apr 2007 |
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Blurred vision When watching any adaptation of a work on screen or stage you are always seeing double: what’s in front of you and what you remember of the original. Some times the original refuses to budge, some times the adaptation takes over, and some times it leaves you with blurred vision. [more] |
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