 reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 16 Mar 2011 |
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American dream on-stage You would think this play has come to us directly from off-Broadway. That’s not just because it’s set in America – it also offers such an insight into the American Dream and the production itself is polished to near perfection. This is its fourth season so that gives it a big advantage, but you get the sense it was sensational from the start. [more] |
 PASSING WIND at Paramount reviewed by Hannah Smith 15 Mar 2011 |
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Inspired and kooky educative experience for kids and adults The things that Linsey Pollak can do with a rubber tube are genuinely amazing. In this 45 minute show, the self styled “instrument inventor” takes us on a musical journey in which he demonstrates how one can make a plethora of musical instruments out of common household objects. If something is hollow and has some holes in it, Linsey will pass wind through it with surprising results. Over the course of the show he blows a watering can, a feather duster, even a carrot – and, of course, our minds. Starting with the fairly simple balloon and garden hose, the instruments increase in complexity and cover an incredible range of sounds. [more] |
 KIDZONE GIGGLES LIVE! at Soundings - Te Papa reviewed by Hannah Smith 15 Mar 2011 |
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Green screen fun for diehard fans The Giggles is a TV show for preschool age children. Giggles Live is, surprise surprise, a live show version in which the audience of kids join forces with the Silly Pirate and others to prepare a special episode of The Giggles for TV. [more] |
 TITERES PORNO at Spiegeltent, Aotea Square reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 15 Mar 2011 |
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High energy peep show with strings attached The Spanish title sounds exotic and vaguely poetic but the prosaic English translation - Porno Puppets - probably gives a more accurate description of the show [more] |
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TITERES PORNO at Spiegeltent, Aotea Square reviewed by Sian Robertson 15 Mar 2011 |
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Well endowed, open and diverse It’s amazing to watch the puppeteers’ considerable feats of coordination, often with three humans manipulating one puppet (each around two-foot tall) in the act of dancing, talking, gesticulating and grinding, all with stereotypical Latin abandon. Occasionally the humans are part of the stories, though they keep most of their clothes on. [more] |
 GRIMACE at Downstage Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2011 |
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Well-paced fun fit for the purpose The title bemused me: what has a circus show for children got to do with pulling a face in pain or disgust? In retrospect I can concede Deborah Pope and her Awkward Theatre Company have aced the Grimms (and rolled the Dahl, for that matter). [more] |
 reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 15 Mar 2011 |
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When two cultures collide Community is the essence of Crossing Lines and in particular two communities – Maori and Somalian. The production is the result of two years work involving many people from these two communities plus the artistic community of South Wellington ... [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Mar 2011 |
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Fairy tales for kids are nothing like this Fairy Stories is outrageously camp, glitteringly garish, dazzlingly costumed, and in the finale probably sacrilegious, when decorum, taste and refinement are vanquished in a riot of dance, flashing lights and a loud Lady Gaga song. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 14 Mar 2011 |
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Yes camp and naughtiness, expect ’em | Plus all the rest of love’s rich spectrum Paul Jenden teams up with four more Exquisite dancers: skills galore In frocks by Jenden – classy kitch – in Tales retold with wit so bitchin’. [more] |
 reviewed by Lexie Matheson 14 Mar 2011 |
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On critiquing, this show and contemporary dance in general Walter Kerr, reviewing John Van Druten's I am a Camera in 1951, summed up his experience in three memorable words: ‘Me no Leica.’ I am a Camera went on to become Cabaret and a great hit. Reviewers are not always right. I like to think that, had Kerr experienced Girl with a Movie Camera he would have, as I did, Leica’d it a lot! [more] |
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