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INFATUATED BY VERSES at 298 Mt Albert Road, Mt Albert
reviewed by Celine Sumic 28 Sep 2008
Fantastic first performance
From proscenium arch to black box to 298 Mt Albert Rd, we have arrived; it’s a new era in dance-theatre and its here at your door. Applause for Yours Truly Productions’ unassuming grace and lemon cupcakes. [more]

Photo: Matt Grace
INFINITE THREAD at Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown
reviewed by John Smythe 31 May 2007
Invigorating celebration
What a celebration: of dance, movement, talent, fabrics, lighting and music! Inspired by fabrics – their look, feel, texture, construction, qualities, virtues, place in the world – Infinite Thread offers a magical mystery tour through an eclectic range of choreographic styles comprising 13 works set to an equally diverse selection of contemporary New Zealand music. [more]

Photo: Matt Grace
INFINITE THREAD at Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown
reviewed by Shruti Navathe (The Lumiere Reader) 29 May 2007
Varied and often impressive
Infinite Thread, currently on at Te Whaea theatre, is a performance comprising thirteen short dance pieces choreographed and danced by second and third year students. The NZ School of Dance students have worked in collaboration with entertainment technology students of Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School, to impressive result. The performances centre on a theme of ‘fabric’, and each piece has its own unique texture and mood ... [more]

INK at BATS
reviewed by John Smythe 23 Sep 2006
Absorbing and perfectly pitched
If you’re wondering what happened to a least one head and set of limbs missing from the torsos on display at Downstage in The Blonde the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, they are adrift in darkness over the road at BATS, in ink. [more]

INK at BATS
reviewed by Deirdre Tarrant (Capital Times) 27 Sep 2006
Quickening senses
The theatricality of the setting achieved with beautiful lighting in a fog filled Bats Theatre was astonishing and somehow surreal. Pathways presented themselves and dissolved, ultimately the shadows revealed form and physical shape ... [more]

INK at The Auckland Performing Arts Centre: TAPAC
reviewed by Nik Smythe 15 Dec 2006
Hypnotic Existential Absurdism
I can’t think of any show I’ve seen which has evoked the sense that I’m having a dream more than Ink. As we enter into the mist that pervades the theatre and auditorium space to seat ourselves I feel partially transformed to a more primitive, dreamlike state of perception. [more]

INNOCENCE at Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown
reviewed by John Smythe 5 Oct 2010
Delusions of innocence
I wonder if German playwright Dea Loher would ever have graced a Wellington stage if Sebastian Sommer had not chosen her Innocence for his major Master of Theatre Arts in Directing (MTA)* production. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 06
INSIDE MY HEAD, OUT OF MY MIND at Evolve, 5 Eva St
reviewed by John Smythe (John Smythe: theatre reviews) 19 Feb 2006
Beyond therapy
There is a wide belief that theatre-as-therapy should stay in the theatre workshop space. On the other hand all creative arts have a therapeutic value for those who engage with them as well as those who make them. [more]

Photo: Mats Böcker
New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010
INSIDE OUT at Opera House
reviewed by John Smythe 2 Mar 2010
Exhilarating
‘Gloriously abandoned’ and ‘organised chaos’ are the phrases that spring to mind when seeking to describe Cirkus Cirkor’s ebullient Inside Out. Only when you stop and think do you realise it has to be ultra organised or someone would get hurt. [more]

Photo: Mats Böcker
New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010
INSIDE OUT at Opera House
reviewed by Jennifer Shennan (The Dominion Post) 2 Mar 2010
Delightful new twists on old tricks
The day we all said “No more animals in the circus” was a great day for world theatre. No more caged animals, so acrobats, clowns, trapeze artists, jugglers, musicians and illusionists were obliged to find new ways of carrying on old tricks. [more]
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