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NØUGHTY GIRLS at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave
reviewed by Lexie Matheson 17 Aug 2012
Sweet voyeurism
Nøughty Girls is about a couple of girls up to naughty but nice stuff in the nice and naughty noughties. In so doing they expose a little known fact, that apart from the technology and some changes in the language, heterosexuality is pretty much as it always has been. [more]

NØUGHTY GIRLS at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave
reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 20 Aug 2012
Engaging authenticity
Sainsbury's devised work, Noughty Girls, offers an up-to-the-minute account of 21st-century romance, with Elizabeth McMenamin and Chelsea McEwan Millar playing a couple of 20-somethings desperately seeking whatever. [more]

OCEAN WAVE at Kings & Queens, Performing Arts Centre
reviewed by Kasey Dewar 3 Sep 2011
Celebrating the ocean's role in community life
Dance and music with watery themes and connections to local history, entertaingly presented with audience participation. Rounds of applause well deserved. [more]

OCT - DEC SERIES at Various neighborhood locations
reviewed by Val Smith 12 Dec 2011
Understanding Brent's Bundles
One thing I love about October and December series is the engagement with inviting and publicity of the events. One email invitation includes an mp3 audio attachment of a short capture of voice; “ok just to aaaaaa, just to come back”. In order to catch what the audio file says I replay it back several times; laughing, as in doing so, I am creating, recreating, an idea of Brent glitching in repetitive loop styles, perhaps dealing with ways of compulsion, self questioning, inadequacy? Perhaps of glitching between spaces of time passing between repetitions. >>?<< A current email invitation lists the end times of episodes as opposed to the start times, introducing ambiguity to beginnings and endings, a common aspect of this work (we wonder are we done yet?) I look forward to seeing how his following of regulars, newcomers, and passers by, deal with this end times invitation. [more]

ODDFELLOWS Comedy Festival
ODDFELLOWS FIRST LAUGHS at Downstage Theatre
reviewed by John Smythe 16 May 2006
Pick & choose or be gluttons
Why do we have comedy festivals? Isn’t it like having pudding only for every meal? [more]

Auckland Fringe 09
OFFICE BOY at San Francisco Bathhouse, 171 Cuba St
reviewed by John Smythe 13 Apr 2008
Two good acts in search of a third
It’s a great, if rather impractical idea: seat your audience at computer monitors in a set-up that vaguely resembles an open plan office, then share the contents of the titular Office Boy’s screen as he, Darren Sanders, works through the first hour of a morning from hell at Crenshaw Toilet Seats. [more]

Auckland Fringe 09
OFFICE BOY at The Classic Studio
reviewed by James Amos 10 Mar 2009
Charmingly absurd sliver of life
This show is basically a 'slice of life' and the life that's 'sliced' is that of Darren Sanders. Darren, delightfully played by Wrigley, works at a toilet seat manufacturing company. He arrives one minute late for work and is preparing to give a big presentation. [more]

Auckland Fringe 2011
OH BABY at TAPAC Theatre, Western Springs
reviewed by Lexie Matheson 13 Mar 2011
A riotous romp through conception and childbirth
Cast with multi-talented wunderkind – they walk, talk, sing, cry, do back flips and dangle from the roof – Oh Baby was always going to be both good and different. It’s a riotous romp through conception and childbirth seen through the lens of an upmarket fertility clinic where the professionals serve each other as much as they seem to serve the outside world. [more]

Auckland Fringe 2013
OH! IS FOR OPERA at Galatos
reviewed by Glen Pickering 6 Mar 2013
A naughty night at the opera
Ever thought the history of opera sounded a bit boring? Would it appeal more if it were told in an irreverent and funny manner, with immodestly dressed attractive young women? The full house at the opening night of Oh! Is for Opera would seem to suggest the answer is a resounding yes! [more]

OLD TIMES at Globe Theatre
reviewed by Barbara Frame (Otago Daily Times) 27 Jun 2008
A seriously good drama
In a room apparently far from anywhere, there are three people: Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Kate’s old friend, Anna. They drink coffee and they talk of old times – times of youthful excitement and poverty in London, of eating sandwiches in Green Park and spending evenings at the theatre or in pubs filled with writers and artists. Their sentences are mostly short and there are many pauses — this is, after all, Pinter. [more]
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