 reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe 9 May 2011 |
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Accessible and neatly stylised Surrounded by conflicting advice, from an army of men, the vast majority with ulterior motives and self-serving agendas, Elizabeth’s decision resonates clearly with today’s Obama-Osama situation: will the execution create martyrdom that will prove a much stronger enemy? [more] |
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reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 9 May 2011 |
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Leads give Schiller’s royal scrap an electric edge ATC’S production of Mary Stuart provides a thrilling introduction to Friedrich Schiller – the philosopher, poet and playwright who is honoured in Germany with the same kind of respect that English speakers reserve for Shakespeare. [more] |
 MASI at Soundings - Te Papa reviewed by John Smythe 3 Mar 2012 |
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The magical experience of discovery and recovery Masi is another 'must see' festival show. Like the quest it embodies it is simultaneously mysterious and exotic yet strangely familiar. As creator/director and the pivotal performer, Nina Nawalowalo draws on the history, mythology and craft of masi (Fijian tapa cloth) to find her own way back to her paternal roots. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 16 Oct 2006 |
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Tired old bear’s growl just as menacing as ever It is twenty years since Master Class was a huge hit for Circa at its tiny Harris Street theatre and twenty three years since it was first performed in England. With recent events in Turkey, Europe and the Middle East it has lost none of its relevance whatsoever. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 16 Oct 2006 |
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The Arts in a State of de-composition Master Class is an acerbically comic cautionary tale about State control of artistic talents for propaganda purposes. Set in Stalin’s USSR circa 1948, it dramatises and explores its theme by summoning composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich to an ante-room in the old Kremlin to answer for their cultural crimes. [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 18 Oct 2006 |
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For music lovers and historians Twenty years after Circa last performed David Pownall’s play Master Class, set in 1948 in the old Kremlin in the old USSR, two of that cast are back in the same roles, as is the director, Ross Jolly. [more] |
 MASTER’S CURIOUS DELIRIUM at Sammy's Entertainment Venue reviewed by Sharon Matthews 21 Mar 2011 |
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Cabaret with a warm, if cynical, heart Anya Anastasia’s Bird Wizdom Orchestra, fresh off the plane from Adelaide’s Fringe Festival, promised, and delivers, a “darkly funny and deliriously bizarre” cabaret performance. Their first international adventure, the deranged fairytale Master’s Curious Delirium, is perfectly suited to the decaying glamour of Sammy’s Nightclub. [more] |
 reviewed by Paul Diamond 27 Jul 2010 |
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Skilfully conveyed in a gentle, ngäwari manner For the last 15 each years, Taki Rua has toured total immersion Mäori theatre throughout Aotearoa. This year’s production, Matapihi ki te ao (window to the world) had a different genesis to earlier productions. Rather than working from a written text, the play is a devised work, based on the performers’ own stories. A great strength of this approach is the ‘naturalness’ of the Mäori language in the very enjoyable 45 minute piece. [more] |
 reviewed by Sarah Helm (GayNZ.com) 25 Sep 2009 |
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Book your tickets because you won't want to miss this An accessible journey into the history of gay and bisexual men in our land of milk and honey, this 80 minute theatrical journey magically progresses you through the decades since early colonisation. Two beautiful and convincing actors are your history guides, with only two chairs and some flimsy clothing to aid their recreation of sensitive, amusing, and significant moments of our gay whakapapa. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 25 Sep 2009 |
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Hitherto hidden history brought to light with sensitivity and humour Two guys in a bare space with two chairs and simple clothing, which they slip in and out of countless times, traverse 140-odd years of gay male history in NZ within 80 minutes. [more] |
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