 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 15 Feb 2012 |
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The power of silence on stage In a state of emotional distress of indecision and grief Sylvia talks to herself about her past, her love of dance, and her unhappy marriage. Nothing is explicit until she starts talking about her hero who suddenly and silently appears in the attic. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Mar 2012 |
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Always clever and beautifully produced visual commentary A large screen, a couple rocks of schist and some tussock are the simple set. The projections are even better than when Richard Meros lectured us on wanting to be Helen Clarke’s lover; they are an often bitingly witty and an always clever and beautifully produced visual commentary on contemporaryNew Zealand. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 26 Mar 2012 |
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High drama: facing up It is, of course, not a comedy, though it’s not without humour, but an account by a theatre troupe returning to Laramie, Wyoming to discover what changes had occurred in the community ten years after the brutal murder of a young gay man, Matthew Shepard, in 1998. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 29 Mar 2012 |
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Refreshing change with a love story told backwards This hour-long play begins and ends with Guy sitting on a park bench moodily feeding some Mallard ducks whose mating habits are, as Guy points out, symbolic. Guy is a sort of eternal student, would-be poet, and was once a maker of balloon animals. The young [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Apr 2012 |
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A howling success Little Red, great granddaughter of Little Red Riding Hood, yearns to be a superhero (isn’t it about time boys are allowed to be superheroes again?) but the wolf who wants to eat her is named Wilbur and is a bit of a softie and finds it tough being a lone wolf. He wants to join a wolverine gang whose members are cool and yearn for the grim old pre-Disney days when wolves were wolves. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Apr 2012 |
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Canine antics make for rip-roaring kids' show Buck was the hero of Capital E’s hit The Farm at the End of the Road and he’s back after going abroad to some sheepdog trials, but he’s in quarantine with three other dogs all waiting to be allowed into New Zealand. His companions are Fifi, a poodle from France, Horatio, a bulldog from England, and Dolores, a chihuahua from Mexico. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 6 Dec 2012 |
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Lively Wheeler’s Luck turns at full throttle You have until this Saturday to see this gloriously funny production of Wheeler’s Luck, which was originally a comic tour de force back in 2002 for Nigel Collins and Toby Leach. The End of the Golden Weather and Toa Fraser’s No 2 have been transformed but not distorted by being filled out with more than one actor and now Wheeler’s Luck has been expanded from two actors playing fifty roles between them to twelve actors playing the forty-nine characters of a remote coastal town and one outsider ... [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 20 Dec 2012 |
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Surreal interpretation of mankind’s last days The Eschaton means the final event in the divine plan or the end of the world. This may happen this coming Friday. A planet called Nibiru which, NASA assures us, doesn’t exist is also meant to crash into Earth when the Mayan Long Count calendar comes to a stop. Best place to be: a small hillside village in south-west France. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 23 Jan 2013 |
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Life lessons in oases of testosterone Dave Armstrong has yet another comedy hit on his hands. Like his play, The Tutor, and the TV comedy, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, which he co-wrote with Danny Mulheron and Tom Scott, Kings of the Gym is concerned with education on one level but on another level, it goes deeper. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 4 Feb 2013 |
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Opportunity wasted as audience left in the dark Watching Perfectly Wasted is like being asked to a party and then finding yourself barred from entering. You can see and hear most of what’s going on but not all and you are no more involved than you are when walking hurriedly through Courtenay Place on a rowdy Saturday night. [more] |
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