 reviewed by Sian Robertson 28 Nov 2008 |
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Hearty, poignant and very funny The play is about four women in their 30s: a Tongan, a Maori, a Samoan and a Niuean, who are close friends and all single, looking for love or something resembling it. They walk into a bar... [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 16 Apr 2006 |
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Simply inspiring There is a great ease of style and, amid the lively, dramatic and comic sequences, lots of lovely quiet moments that focus audience attention wonderfully. This is true entertainment, that draws us in and holds our attention, without forcing anything on us or making manipulative demands. [more] See also reviews by: Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post); |
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reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 18 Apr 2006 |
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Highly energised performances A lot can happen in a local street between sunrise and sunset - kids get ready for school, people go off to work, the mail arrives, the rubbish gets put out, kids play, workmen fix things, people walk their dogs plus a lot more. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe |
 reviewed by John Smythe 16 Jan 2008 |
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Seductive satire Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, David Lange and Margaret Pope … Why not Helen Clark and Richard Meros? The point is power: an aphrodisiac, to both the holder of it and the would-be holder of the holder. And PowerPoint is the prime means used to present this philosophical treatise-cum-thesis-cum-erotic fantasy, wherein ... [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 17 Jan 2008 |
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Slick, wicked poke at politics Get down to Bats straight away and book a seat for this ‘anarchic and incisive’ ... theatrical lecture with a slick and wickedly clever PowerPoint presentation that alone is worth the price of a ticket. This hilarious show finishes on Saturday ... [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Captial Times) 23 Jan 2008 |
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It gets my vote Pinfield and Meek have turned Richard Meros' book of the same name, into a persuasive power point presentation – or in their own words, ‘a watertight rational case study’. After an hour of argument and imagery, you will agree with the premise that our Prime Minister, ‘volcano of desire’ that she is, not only needs a young lover, specifically Richard/Arthur, but for this to happen is indeed in the country’s best interests. [more] |
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reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe 7 May 2008 |
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Complex weave of deliberate irony = unbeatable hilarity ... Taking on the role of Richard Meros, Arthur Meek barely pauses for breath, as he categorically persuades his enthusiastic and at times raucous opening night crowd, that on the conditions and possibilities of our Rt. Hon. HC taking him as her young lover, not only is he an expert on the subject and a man not to be messed with in a debate, he simply must be right. [more] |
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reviewed by Helen Sims (The Lumiere Reader) 18 Jan 2008 |
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Slightly disturbing but highly entertaining ... It’s also the cover for two other thinly veiled messages – the rampant individualism amongst 20-somethings as a product of the “Rogernomics” of a government which Clark was a part of, and the portrayal of Meros as a self-obsessed loner, the “poster-kid” of this generation. [more] |
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reviewed by Anna Chinn (New Zealand Listener) 21 Apr 2008 |
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Loving Helen Perhaps because in politics she has always been about cranial and not carnal knowledge, has favoured rhetoric over the erotic, the Prime Minister’s sex life intrigues and/or perplexes the nation. [more] |
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reviewed by Vanessa Byrnes 28 Sep 2008 |
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Meros for office! Everything that’s been said already in reviews on this website is true. Meek is relaxed, witty, focussed and determined in his pursuit of a central assaulting argument that he, our modern intellectual, (over-educated and under-employed) is the perfect Rake to both revamp Helen Clark’s public popularity and her personal love life. [more] |
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