 reviewed by Penny Dodd 20 Sep 2010 |
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Drama within the music gives a satisfying depth to the storytelling The curtain rises on a misty wasteland, with three witches seemingly suspended in midair. The effect is striking and magical, in muted tonings of greeny-blue and grey. This is Macbeth without tartan; a mid twentieth century urban Italian ‘court’ with the men in black and white, all the better for showing off the bloodstains. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 20 Sep 2010 |
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A voyage around a dad and daughter’s uneasy relationship Branwen Millar’s latest play Father Familiar dissects with a surgeon’s skill the troubled relationship between a father and daughter. This 90 minute two-hander is divided into three movements. The allegro and the adagio take place in an old people’s home over two Christmases when Sam visits her father, Roy ... [more] |
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reviewed by William Dart (New Zealand Herald) 20 Sep 2010 |
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A tortured king, lean, mean queen and malevolent witches pack powerful punch Tim Albery's restaging of his 2008 Opera North production of Macbeth for NBR New Zealand Opera is an engrossing night at the theatre. Its virtues, in the words of Ira Gershwin, are varied and many ... [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 20 Sep 2010 |
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Clear purpose in performance brings great value This abridgement of Othello basically extracts the Othello, Desdemona and Iago elements, allowing the other contributors to that storyline to be reported on, implied or, indeed, implicated. Assuming the audience is already informed through studying the play, and/or will be inspired and supported to discover more after the show, this works very well indeed. [more] |
 reviewed by Alan Scott (The Press) 20 Sep 2010 |
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Triumphant return to normality at Court It is a mad, mad world, I have to say. A fortnight ago, while shaking inside my weatherboard castle, I seemed, for 40 seconds or more, to be staring into the face of hell. [more] |
 reviewed by Phoebe Smith 18 Sep 2010 |
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A most enjoyable occasion David Goldthorpe’s Chet Baker, Like Someone in Love, in the St James Theatre cabaret series is best described not as a play, nor as a concert, but rather an occasion. [more] |
 reviewed by Lillian Richards 18 Sep 2010 |
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Bemoaning the outcomes of thoughtlessness Motherlock is based around the assumption that you both can and cannot define a mother: her role, her behaviour and her basis in reality. Being a mother is both something that happens to you and something you choose; it is a reality, an unreality, a happening, a catastrophe; it is a natural occurrence. [more] |
 reviewed by Sian Robertson 18 Sep 2010 |
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Dispelling the masticated myth that is dropped into our little tweeting bird mouths by the mainstream media ... based on the diaries and correspondence of Rachel Corrie, an young American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer while peacefully defending a Palestinian home from destruction in 2003. Teamed up with director Lara Macgregor, Kate Prior gives a no-holds-barred performance as the exuberant, fiercely compassionate, eloquent Corrie. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson 17 Sep 2010 |
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Many parts played by one gifted actor Storytelling is as old as mankind and its art and techniques are on display in three very different theatrical productions at the moment. At Circa there are short anecdotal stories in My First Time and a very tall story told with bravura in Shipwrecked!, and now at Downstage we have The Guru of Chai, an updated version ofa traditional Indian folk/fairy story ... [more] |
 reviewed by Gail Pittaway (Waikato Times) 17 Sep 2010 |
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Touching and uplifting Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play is “a little world made cunningly,” to quote John Donne, the area of expertise for the main character. Of course all plays should be. Here the world is that so beloved by the American Soap opera, the hospital. [more] |
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