 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Mar 2009 |
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World events get Rock rolling Stoppard’s engrossing play Rock ’n’ Roll starts in a garden in Cambridge, England, in 1968 with the God Pan (or is it Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd?) playing a pipe to a flower child, while in Czechoslovakia Dubcek’s mild reforms are unsettling the Russians. The play ends, having moved back and forth between the two cities, at a Rolling Stones concert in Prague in 1990 at the start of the Velvet Revolution. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 5 Mar 2009 |
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A brilliant insight into Victorian times With over 150 performances played all over the country we are able at last to see Stuart Devenie’s remarkable performance as Mr. Joseph Hatch, chemist, Mayor of Invercargill, Member of Parliament, entrepreneur and slaughterer of two million penguins for their oil on Macquarie Island. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 13 Mar 2009 |
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Anguish and pain in collision of fantasies We will be lucky if see better all-round acting this year than in Heather O’Carroll’s simple and beautifully balanced production of A Brief History of Helen of Troy, a searing account of a teenager’s confrontation with her demons. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 21 Mar 2009 |
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Nugget of a good play but short on serendipity Somewhere in the muddle that is Serendipity there is a play struggling to get out. The play grew out of the playwright’s need to understand the inter-racial tensions in Sri Lanka where her parents were born. It is also about inter-racial tensions in New Zealand between the central character, Malini, a Sri Lankan New Zealander and Jeff, her Maori partner, whom she deserted when she returned to Sri Lanka to join the Tamil Tigers. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Apr 2009 |
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Comedy to melodrama Though it is advertised as a comedy, the very short two-hander Dolores was probably best described by an American critic as ‘a Dramady’. Edward Allen Baker has given his two sisters some funny lines and he establishes a tense, at times humorous, relationship between these two seemingly different working-class women. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson 6 Apr 2009 |
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Savage comedy amid the carnage A hit in Zurich, Paris, London and New York, where it opened only two weeks ago, God of Carnage, a boulevard comedy about the savagery that lies beneath the veneer of civilized behaviour, looks set to become a hit in Wellington too, if the reaction of the opening night’s audience is anything to go by. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 17 Apr 2009 |
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Clever mix Snow White & Rose Red, aimed at 2-7year-olds, is all plot, songs, pantomime high jinks and a rough and ready approach to theatrical presentation. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 18 Apr 2009 |
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Ibsen adaptation a minor miracle It could so easily have been crass and embarrassing but David Lawrence’s updating and relocation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler from 1890 Norway to a trendy house in Aro Valley 2009 is in a number of ways a minor miracle. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 20 Apr 2009 |
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Verve, humour, allure and superb acting Graham Greene found George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eight-Four ‘very good except the sex part. That’s ham.’ Year of the Rat, Roy Smiles’s comic fantasy about George Orwell, shows us, at times movingly, why Greene’s assessment was right. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 23 Apr 2009 |
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Problems shared under one moon On leaving the opening night of Lantern the audience was handed a Chinese New Year gift of a chocolate dollar and an 11th century poem which ends with the lines: All we can hope for is life enough to see that though a thousand leagues apart, we all look at the same moon. [more] |
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