 reviewed by Phoebe Smith 15 Jul 2011 |
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Groups A and B Go Solo 2011 is the Toi Whakaari third year students’ solo performance pieces and comprises four groups with four students in each. The first two groups of these devised works show the actors making use of this opportunity to highlight their versatility and physicality, with most monologues employing multiple characters ... [more] |
 reviewed by Phoebe Smith 15 Jul 2011 |
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Charming and unique Inspired by the fictional and the real worlds of Enid Blyton and her “drastically different daughters,” Alex Lodge, Cherie Jacobson and Edward Watson’s dark comedy Tea for Toot explores the lives of “batty sisters Georgia and Emily [who] live in the shadow of their famous mother.” [more] |
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reviewed by Helen Sims 15 Jul 2011 |
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Groups C and D The Toi Whakaari third year students’ Go Solo productions are an excellent opportunity to see some new talent in action, showing off their skills in vehicles of their own devising. This year they are being performed in the school’s Seeyd Space, offering a fairly blank canvas for creativity. [more] |
 reviewed by Lindsay Clark 15 Jul 2011 |
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Hotshot entertainment in provocation to blandness Five bridesmaids, none of them supportive of the bride, find a bolt hole, each for her own reasons, in the bedroom of the bride’s sister which overlooks the outdoor bar. It is in this unlikely setting that the world of romantic love is cheerfully shredded. [more] |
 reviewed by Erin Harrington 14 Jul 2011 |
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Tortuous but very funny Helen (Rachel Walsh), a designer, and Frazer (Sam Mannering), an advertising executive, seem to be living the perfectly ordered life of the perfect yuppie couple ... until they are asked to dog-sit a miniature schnauzer called Phoebe [more] |
 reviewed by Sharon Matthews 14 Jul 2011 |
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An abundance of unique local style Billed as a cabaret-theatre show, Cab Sav mixes comedy, live music, dance and political satire posing as a puppet show. Songs and comic sketches are loosely woven together by our MC, ‘Mama Kuss’. [more] |
 reviewed by Janet McAllister (2) (New Zealand Herald) 14 Jul 2011 |
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Top 20 Week 2: Bigger, brighter, better Compared with last week's lineup, this week's compilation of 10 10-minute plays for the Short+Sweet competition is a great success. There's more to look at: action is dynamic, casts are larger, acting (mostly) more assured, props inventive and costumes bright. [more] |
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reviewed by Caoilinn Hughes 13 Jul 2011 |
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Top 20 Week 2 By the interval of the Short + Sweet Theatre Festival’s Top 20 (Week 2), I was already torn between two potential winners. By the end, I was pacing around the foyer, fretting over the ballot sheet. I had given 5 stars to four of the ten ‘shorts’ (10 minute plays). If only all voting were so difficult; with so many smart, witty, well-lit candidates. [more] |
 reviewed by Jack Gray 10 Jul 2011 |
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...the weirdest thing I have ever seen The friend I went with has seen some of the other Ghosting series and says this is the most fully realised of the lot. She refers to a statement in the programme that says: “So the aims are serious but we want people to have a good time, and to be challenged. It should be fun, a little scary and at times even beautiful.” She says she felt all of those things ... [more] |
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reviewed by Sian Robertson 10 Jul 2011 |
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Wildcards Week 1 Sexual adventures are well represented in the first half. The first piece, The Reluctant Testicle by Paul Lawrence,is told from the point of view of a young man’s genitals, which are played by Jonathan Riley, Tracey Cumin and Natasha Daniel. They try to figure out what’s going on above, with limited visibility and not a lot of control about what they are pressed up against. [more] |
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