 reviewed by Tamati Patuwai 20 Apr 2013 |
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Potentially groundbreaking play Set in 1942, Goodbye My Feleni presents four characters, all of Pacific island lineage who have joined the ranks of the D (Ngati Walkabout) Company of the Maori Battalion. They are preparing for their deployment with training, booze and the typical posturing that comes naturally with Pacific relationships. [more] |
 reviewed by Greg O'Connell 20 Nov 2011 |
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A rich, multi-layered, significant work As their initial offering, Poison and Purity (inspired by 10-80) coincided with the Pike River mining disaster. On this first anniversary Kiwi/Possum Productions felt compelled to respond in a transformative way through the power of live theatre. [more] |
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GOODNIGHT, IRENE at Globe Theatre reviewed by Sharon Matthews 17 Mar 2012 |
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The role of the artist affirmed As the two central characters speak, it is revealed that these images relate to their individual lives, and to those traumatic events which have shaped them. It becomes clear that this is not a direct dramatisation of a specific time and tragedy. This is, as the programme indicates, a subtle exploration of “how events become memory.” [more] |
 GORDON SOUTHERN THE KERFUFFLE at Cavern Club, 22 Allen St reviewed by Stewart Lund 1 May 2013 |
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Reasonably clean, clever and thoroughly entertaining Gordon Southern likes New Zealand and is happy to keep coming back, which is something we should be very happy about. He bounds onto the stage exuding confidence and smugness (something to which he happily admits during the show) and rattles out an hour of constant hilarity in his relatively new show, The Kerfuffle. [more] |
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GORDON SOUTHERN THE KERFUFFLE at The Classic Studio reviewed by Jan Maree 7 May 2013 |
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Honest humour I like Gordon Southern. He has three of the most important traits that I believe a comedian should have: he is charming, energetic and genuine. Having enjoyed watching him on stage as part of a line up or solo, I have come to expect that I'll always be left smiling afterwards. [more] |
 GORGE at Old Folks Association Hall, 8 Gundry St, Newton reviewed by Naomi Cohen 6 Mar 2013 |
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Darker themes beneath the pink It is Molly’s birthday and she is having a carnival theme party run by the lovely Pick and Mix who have organised a luscious spread of cakes and sweets. But there is something not quite right ... [more] |
 reviewed by Nik Smythe 6 Oct 2007 |
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Timeless Edwardian love story Grace is the theatrical realisation of a family legend that writer, director, producer, set, sound and costume designer Sophie Dingemans has lived with her whole life. Told to her by her mother since she was a child, this production fulfils her childhood vision of telling her grandparents’ story in performance. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 20 Aug 2008 |
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When passion overcomes principles With Grace, playwright and director Sophie Dingemans fulfils a childhood ambition: to explore what drove her Great Grandmother to fake her own death by drowning, in 1907, and flee in the name of love to a new life in New Zealand. It’s a classic heart-over-head story, and so is this dramatisation. [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson 22 Aug 2008 |
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Love story leaves lingering queries Love drives humans to behave in strange ways and while many have been said to die for love, not many have pretended to die for love. OK, Juliet did but you would certainly not expect a sensible, forthright New Woman of the Edwardian era, hoping to be elected to the London County Council, to fall so hopelessly in love that she would pretend to kill herself so as to be with the man she loves in far off New Zealand. [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 27 Aug 2008 |
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It doesn't get more romantic If you’d seen this play without knowing the background, you’d have thought it a great and inventive drama – knowing there was a real life Grace who did indeed fake her own death to join the love of her life in New Zealand, 100 years ago, gives it even more punch. [more] |
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