 reviewed by Simon Sweetman 6 Nov 2007 |
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“The best play I have ever seen” Home Land is the best play I have ever seen – by which I mean it is the work of drama that has affected me most. The actors were spot on, the feel of the play, the look of the stage set ... and the sound of the dialogue – this is a New Zealand story that is universal. And that is why it is so affecting and effective. [more] |
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The Body Festival 2011 HOMELAND at Middleton Grange School Performing Arts Centre reviewed by Kate Sullivan 8 Oct 2011 |
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Everybody should see this show It is the relationships between the dancers that make this show stand out. The dancers use various ways of connecting, lifting and supporting each other throughout. It is evident that the strong and supportive community that Jolt operates within is integral to the group’s success. Themes of resilience and community spirit resonate within these relationships. Albeit simple, the act of two pairs of dancers slowly walking off stage hand in hand pulls the heartstrings of the audience. [more] |
 reviewed by Stephen Austin 4 Mar 2011 |
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Real, raw, honest, special We’re seated in the foyer of the Auckland City Mission: harsh fluorescent lights, hard practical seats, the smells of the comings and goings at the food-bank permeating our nostrils. Many of the current occupants are busying themselves tidying up the kitchen, getting into black clothing, adjusting lights and tuning up guitars. [more] |
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HOMO-INTERNETICUS at Hagley Open Stage reviewed by Kate Sullivan 6 Sep 2012 |
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All possibilities exhausted As each piece is revealed, it is clear that these choreographers have truly exhausted all the possibilities within the major theme. Especially for a group of such young dancers (some as young as sixteen and seventeen), they have considered some mature and insightful concepts. Areas such as Wikipedia, technological dependency, Skype, internet speed and finding fame on YouTube are all covered in the student’s works. The use of various production technologies are integrated well into the pieces and enhance the students ideas. During ‘Profile’, choreographed by Eden Roberts, the dancers draw chalk boxes around each other to highlight the idea of how a person’s identity can be determined by people’s perceptions of your Facebook page. This chalk is soon rubbed off by the dancers sliding and wriggly onto the stage from all over the theatre in some of the following pieces. [more] |
 HONEY at Fred’s, 46 Frederick Street reviewed by John Smythe 17 Feb 2012 |
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A sweet play with a bit of a crunch and a lingering after-taste Joseph Harper is a unique new talent on the theatre scene. At first blush he seems to deliver his stories and musings as unadorned chat then theatrical elements emerge and soon it transpires every placing of a prop or light has been well thought through. It’s theatre by stealth. [more] |
 reviewed by Lindsay Clark 22 Feb 2009 |
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Clever, penetrating analysis of head v heart drama What happens when, without obvious warning, an older man leaves his wife of many years for a younger woman? The situation has been combed over so often in various media and in real life that it could all seem a little threadbare without the vigorous debate played out with conviction and style in this production. [more] |
 HONOUR BOUND at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by John Smythe 14 Mar 2008 |
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Potent theatre of indictment: not to be missed or dismissed “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” is the motto of the Joint Task Force charged with running the Guantánamo detention centre. But here we find honour bound, black-hooded and consigned to a very dark place while detainees (the Bush administration has decreed they are not prisoners of war and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention) are subjected to regimes of systematic torture, sanctioned by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to win their co-operation and extract supposedly credible ‘information’ and evidence’. Yeah right. [more] |
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HONOUR BOUND at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Mar 2008 |
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Daring assault on walls of steel Honour Bound is the most startlingly daring piece of theatre in the Festival, combining as it does documentary theatre, dance, agile aerial work, and amazing video technology. [more] |
 HOOTCHY KOOTCHY GIRLS BURLESQUE at Toto’s restaurant: Monte Cristo Room reviewed by Cat Gwynne 18 Oct 2008 |
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Inappropriate appropriation of a once-political genre The costumes are super fly, the ladies are scandalously hot – so why does it all feel ... kinda unsexy? The Hootchy Kootchy Girls return to Tempo with a somewhat carbon copy ‘homage to the glamour days’ of Vaudevillian Burlesque. Now perhaps nostalgic homage has its place, especially in the confusion and cultural complexity of our ever changing information-age, but ... [more] |
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Tempo Festival of Dance 09 HOOTCHY KOOTCHY GOES LATIN at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by Venus Stephens 26 Oct 2009 |
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Alluring performances The Hootchy Kootchy girls have me feeling a little tentative; I descend the stairs into the foyer of the Montecristo Room on Nelson St and immediately feel a like a flower... the ‘wall’ kind. Draped around the room are the best dressed ... [more] |
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