 SOMETIMES I DON’T LIKE YELLOW at BATS reviewed by Michael Wray 27 Feb 2010 |
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A clever and satisfying story trying to get out Poor Peter Blouse. A likeable, irreverent business man just trying to give the people what they want. His workforce at the Yum Pineapple, Pineapple is Yum factory are in revolt. The acidic qualities of pineapple juice has cost them their fingerprints and they are losing their grip. [more] |
 SOUND OF SILENCE at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 27 Feb 2010 |
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Peace, love and yearning echo In the magnificently costumedSound of Silence, which is crammed with period detail, the New Riga Theatre Company from Latvia also takes us back to the 1960s when, for a brief period child-like behaviour, peculiar clothing, and political naivety seemed suitable and subtle ways to undermine and forget the rigid conformity and repressive power of the Soviet Union. [more] |
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SOUND OF SILENCE at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by John Smythe 27 Feb 2010 |
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Amiable, smile-inducing fun Maybe the elephants scrawled on the walls in the crumbling Latvian ‘apartments’ … hold some clue as to why this rather thin evocation of 1960s-70s cultural-cum-sexual revolution, as experienced in a Soviet socialist republic, works somehow. [more] |
 HOME at Tararua Tramping Club, Mt Victoria reviewed by Michael Wray 27 Feb 2010 |
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Heart-warming Although Home sits in the music category of the Fringe, it could easily be classified as theatre. Whether you view it as a series of story chapters with musical interludes, or a musical performance separated by spoken pieces will depend on your personal preference. For me it was a winning example of the former. [more] |
 INSIDE OUT [FRINGE] at Newtown Community Centre reviewed by Lyne Pringle 27 Feb 2010 |
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Refreshing and honest approach relished by young cast Inside Out is a beautiful, heartfelt rendition of Sarah Delahunty’s great play about depression and the phenomenon of self harming. It sounds heavy but the script is entertaining and moving as well as offering some valuable insights; the use of humour leavens the challenging subject matter. [more] |
 SUTRA at St James Theatre reviewed by Lyne Pringle 27 Feb 2010 |
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A generous gift for our enlightenment A gentle magnetism draws the viewer along a silver thread, into this theatre of the heart. Its tone, pace and visual impact are muted at first; I am not immediately engaged and find myself questioning the choreographer’s right to present yet again a western ‘other’ view of an intricate and ancient Asian art. [more] |
 APOLLO 13: MISSION CONTROL at Downstage Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 27 Feb 2010 |
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Participate: you know you want to Whether we have assigned tasks, volunteer for special tasks, or are (like the press corps) keen observers, we live and feel the unfolding drama. From the time bird-strike causes a gas to vent that’s observed from inside the module to which we have video access, problems evolve that threaten first the success of the mission and then the lives of the crew. [more] |
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SUTRA at St James Theatre reviewed by Jennifer Shennan (The Dominion Post) 27 Feb 2010 |
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Everybody was kung-fu dancing Sutra, a highly original production, offers mighty spectacle atop a poignant theme of searching with both universal and personal resonance. The opening scene of a man and a boy engaged in a board game makes all the following action and imagery seem to echo their opening moves, like some dna of the choreography. [more] |
 MEMOIRS OF PINAFORES AND PANTYHOSE at The Garden Club, 13b Dixon Street reviewed by Michael Wray 26 Feb 2010 |
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Dancing works amid clumsy production It would probably work well if the show’s format was changed to themed cabaret i.e. if the acting was reduced to elements of segue between dance numbers. As a piece of theatre, trying to tell a story, it has problems. [more] |
 THE BLACK HOLE MENAGERIE at BATS reviewed by Hannah Smith 26 Feb 2010 |
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Tame, unfunny, self-indulgent In space nobody can hear you scream. And there is nobody to come to your rescue either. And thus you are trapped in one full hour of The Black Hole Menagerie, which is, without doubt, the worst science fiction sex musical that I have ever been subjected to. [more] |
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