 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 3 Apr 2007 |
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Perfectly performed Nothing much happens. They argue and they get grumpy with each other over other inmates, the months of the year, the nuns who look after them, and whether or not a statue of a dog moved. But in their boredom they start to imagine an escape ... [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Apr 2007 |
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Theatrical memorial to a murdered teen Corner 4am & Cuba is a memorial to a 14 year-old boy, Jeff Whittington, who was murdered in Inverlochy Place, near Aro St in 1999. The director of this hour-long piece of collaborative theatre has said Jeff’s brutal murder just needs to be remembered. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 17 Apr 2007 |
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The milkman still delivers A standing ovation greeted Topol at the end of the marathon musical of which he has been the star since 1967. The applause wasn’t for endurance but for a beautifully structured performance that is fresh and strong and is supported by his fine speaking voice and his sly comedy as Tevye chats to God, and his powerful singing. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 30 Apr 2007 |
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The Vanya plays the fool What is so enjoyable about Susan Wilson’s ebullient production of this play, often suffused in melancholia, is that the comedy is played to the hilt just as she did with her 2005 production of The Cherry Orchard. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 1 May 2007 |
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A stimulating mix With A Bright Room Called Day, Theatre Militia, in their best production so far by a long way, have thrown a post-Brechtian Molotov cocktail of a play into the current theatrical scene and it makes plays about old soldiers and an ageing seductress seem trivial. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 1 May 2007 |
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Surprising reversals and revelations With Stand Up Love, Gavin McGibbon’s finely written second play, we are into the hermetically sealed world of intimate relationships and what it means to be in love. Freddy is a stand up comedian whose source of comedy is his personal life with his partner, Ana, who earns a regular wage and is able to keep her work (it’s never clear what) at work. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 May 2007 |
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Stimulating Othello with a Kiwi setting Jim Moriarty, following the late Don Selwyn and George Henare, is the third Maori actor to play Othello at Downstage since the theatre was founded in 1964, but he is the first to play the role in a production that sets the play in New Zealand during the land wars. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 21 May 2007 |
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Fizzing, youthful energy needs stronger material The national grid should be linked up to the Opera House stage where there’s an untapped supply of fizzing youthful energy being expended on the commercial phenomenon of Disney’s High School Musical. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 25 May 2007 |
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Capturing the essence of a Kiwi classic Mervyn Thompson in his solo autobiographical play Passing Through paid tribute to Bruce Mason and The End of the Golden Weather by describing Mason as sculpting in his mind “a fort of magic, a shield of images, shored up against the vanishings of time.” He also described Golden Weather as “larger-than-life and truer.” [more] See also reviews by: Kate Ward-Smythe John Smythe |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Jun 2007 |
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Unmissable, challenging and probably unforgettable “Truth is rarely pure, and never simple,” said Lady Bracknell. Though David Harrower’s searing and emotionally riveting drama Blackbird is as far from Wildean comedy as you can imagine, it bears out the truth of her statement in an area of life that is highly complex and clouded by fear, hatred and disgust. [more] |
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