 reviewed by Richard Mays 10 Sep 2012 |
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Retro cop caper a joyfully reconstructed jaunt Yes, even the cops got ever so slightly shaggy(!) under their dark blue custodian helmets in the early ’70s, with over-the-collar hair, sideburns and upper lip facial-fungus. And while Well Hung may look like a New Zealand slapstick stage take on the British and American Life On Mars TV series, this play by Robert Lord actually does come from ‘Mars’, making its stage debut at Wellington’s Downstage in 1974. [more] |
 reviewed by Richard Mays 15 Nov 2012 |
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More to these archetypical characters than first meets the eye Frustration can be a funny thing. And frustration is exactly what fuels the fun in this raunchy summer holiday romp. [more] |
 reviewed by Steve Thomas 20 Sep 2006 |
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Balls with heart There's a show just kicked off at the Court Theatre that will appeal to a rugby crazy town ... [It] gets inside the heart of the sport. It's not all sweetness and light but it is revealing and hugely entertaining. [more] |
 reviewed by John Ross (The Dominion Post) 18 Sep 2006 |
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Cricket play needs practice Way back in February 1981, the Chappell brothers secured an Aussie win in a one-day cricket match in Melbourne against a Kiwi team, through Greg's ordering his brother Trevor to deliver the last ball of the last over underarm, making it impossible to score from. This episode still retains iconic and proverbial status on our side of the ditch, as to the depths to which some Ockers will sink, to win, in anything. [more] |
 reviewed by John Ross (The Dominion Post) 6 Nov 2006 |
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The weigh of all flesh Shedding fat can be fun; it doesn't have to be all semi-starving and guilt trips. Such is the cheering dynamic of Lucy Schmidt's new comedy; and with people suddenly worrying about an obesity epidemic, this is serendipitously topical. [more] |
 reviewed by John Ross (The Dominion Post) 21 Mar 2007 |
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Unexpected twists How can you teach algebra and stats to a ferociously hostile and cynical teen, like Nathan in this comedy, who's already scorned the efforts of a whole string of schoolteachers and previous tutors? What could be making his rich Jafa father so obsessed about getting his son's grades out of the E-range? What could be impelling the schoolteacher Richard to persist with such ostensibly futile tutoring? [more] |
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THE ONE AFTER THE LAST GOON SHOW at Globe Theatre reviewed by John Ross (The Dominion Post) 24 Apr 2007 |
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“It does in a daft fashion work” That the BBC's manic Go-On Show (or was it the Goon Show?) went on air week after week for nearly nine years can be seen as a kind of on-going miracle. As we now know, the strain this imposed upon the script-writer Spike Milligan was so diabolical it drove him into two nervous breakdowns ... [more] |
 reviewed by John Ross (The Dominion Post) 21 May 2007 |
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Strong women, strong production We need strong parts for women, and here an Australian playwright has created six of them, end-to-end, to provide challenges for a virtuoso actor. From a school-girl in a cat-suit coping with a talent contest through to a widow in her sixties breaking free from soul-crushing routine, each character exemplifies the theme of `women on the edge,’ close to imploding. [more] |
 reviewed by John Ross (The Dominion Post) 24 Jul 2007 |
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Loving portrait carried off with flair Ferry begins as himself, at an invisible lectern, launching into a funeral tribute to his own father. Presently he becomes his father, resting on top of his coffin, and reacting with humorous scorn. At times he becomes his mother, a brother, his father's army mate, an officer, whoever, and often enough both participants in a conversation. It is accomplished, in both senses, with no trace of strain or awkwardness. [more] |
 reviewed by John Ross 21 Aug 2007 |
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Quite adequately enjoyable It's tough getting old, with body and mind slowing, while all the pressures and constraints impinging upon your life are getting harsher and less familiar. Here, Kiwi octogenarians Harold and Laura Stacey, fed up, mount a revolt against these, and a kind of revenge-seeking upon `the system' as a whole, by holding up their bank-branch with a shot-gun. [more] |
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