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Otago Festival of the Arts
LINES OF FIRE at Dunedin Railway Station
reviewed by Barbara Frame (Otago Daily Times) 6 Oct 2006
Railway station setting transports audience
One of Wow! Productions’ distinguishing features is its innovative use of Dunedin venues. Not only does its new production make brilliant use of Dunedin’s gorgeous railway station, but Gary Henderson’s Lines of Fire was written specifically for this location. [more]

LISA TOMLINS WITH TWINSET at Downstage Theatre
reviewed by Peter Cleave 1 Oct 2010
Kiwi music hall
Kiikii te whare. He tangata tiaho rawa a Lisa ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara ... It was packed. Lisa is popular in Wellington ... Ka taatai teenei whakaaturanga ki a Billy T James me Lou raaua ko Haimona .... The gig was in the tradition of Billy T James and Lou and Simon ... [more]

Tempo Festival of Dance 2008
LITTLE BIG OBSTINACIES at Centennial Theatre, Auckland Grammar School
reviewed by Dr Linda Ashley 11 Oct 2008
The passing on of knowledge
Kanan Deobhakta’s most recent work, Little Big Obstinacies, follows the legacy of classical dance’s affinity with the meta-issues of the human condition. Love, life, death, power, good, and of course, evil are all woven into the intricacies of the Bharata Natyam story-telling vocabulary. [more]

LITTLE BLACK BASTARD at Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, The Edge
reviewed by Denis Edwards 3 May 2006
From darkness he shines: highly polished
Tovey’s story is pure Australian Gothic. His Melbourne is a bleak, hard place and his early life left little possibility of a middle ground. He would rise and soar or fall hard and brutally fast; dead in an alley, overdosed, shot or beaten to death, or dying alone in a cell. [more]

LITTLE BLONDE HEN at 420 Bar, 323 K Road
reviewed by Jessie Kollen 12 Jun 2009
A voyeuristic peek
Have you ever been at a hen’s night? Or have you ever had a hen’s night of your own? If the answer is “yes” to either of these questions then you’ll have a good idea of what to expect from Thomas Sainsbury’s Little Blonde Hen… [more]

LITTLE HISTORIES OF THE LIFE ORDINARY at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave
reviewed by Nik Smythe 21 Mar 2012
Disparate narratives held together by existential glue
The message, as far as I can distinguish from the endearing characters’ momentary soul journeys (and one prominent scientists’ radio talkback contribution), is that we are all made of stars; that is to say, the atoms which make up all our bodies, and everything else, have traversed the universe during the billions of years it’s existed. [more]

LITTLE HISTORIES OF THE LIFE ORDINARY at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave
reviewed by Rosabel Tan (Theatre Scenes - Auckland Theatre Blog) 22 Mar 2012
Getting Lost in Space
Little Histories of the Life Ordinary follows a girl named Frankie whose deepest desire is to travel to space. You’ll never be lonely up there, you see, and the moon is made of cabbage, so you’ll never go hungry either. Also, the Milky Way is made of milk. Problems – all of them: solved. [more]

NZ International Comedy Festival
LITTLE HOWARD AND THE MAGIC PENCIL OF LIFE AND DEATH at Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, The Edge
reviewed by Nik Smythe 22 Apr 2008
Big Howard Presents Little Howard: The Worlds First Fully Interactive Six Year Old Cartoon Comedian
As the audience convenes, Big Howard, half the main duo of the piece, passes time in the wings by scribbling caricatures of audience members on a sensor pad which is projected onto the big screen. The effect is such that as the lights go down for the show to begin, the audience is already rather cheerful. [more]

New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2010
LITTLE MOUSTACHE: LAUGH EXPERIENCES at Club Ivy, The Garden Club, 13B Dixon St
reviewed by Helen Sims 9 May 2010
Obvious comic talents
We are told early on that the reason for the name “Little Moustache” will become clear to us – and it does during one of the pieces of sketch comedy. A tendency to over-explain is the hallmark of this work. Although it is cute and quirky, subtlety is not their forte. [more]

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD at 4 Moncrieff St., Mt. Victoria
reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Apr 2012
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]
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