 reviewed by Sharu Delilkan 23 Mar 2012 |
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Ship Songs Sparkles The live band on stage kick starts the voyage dramatically, promising and definitely delivering a memorable theatrical journey. [more] |
 SHIPWRECKED BENEATH THE STARS at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 16 Feb 2008 |
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A pretty good stand in for the real deal Gavin McGibbon’s third play (after After Service and Stand Up Love) is set below decks on the King Kong ship, moored at Miramar Wharf and minded during the long lonely nights by a security guard called Patrick (John Hui), single and lacking in self-esteem. [more] |
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SHIPWRECKED BENEATH THE STARS at BATS reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 18 Feb 2008 |
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Welcome complexity and clever construction Shipwrecked beneath the Stars starts with The Beatles’ Nowhere Man which immediately tells us that Patrick is a bit like you and me, an everyman, insecure, lost and drifting at age 43. [more] |
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SHIPWRECKED BENEATH THE STARS at BATS reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Script not well served Shipwrecked Beneath the Stars is less than convincing, though the idea for the setting is terrific – on board the King Kong boat during filming. [more] |
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SHIPWRECKED BENEATH THE STARS at BATS reviewed by Kate Blackhurst (The Lumiere Reader) 17 Feb 2008 |
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A lot more work is required Patrick (John Hui) is a security guard on the ‘King Kong’ boat, who feels removed from all the excitement going on around him. Approaching 43, he is lonely, bored and depressed. His wife has left him because she no longer loves him and he has fallen for Kelly (Raquel Sims), a girl he went to school with who has become a prostitute. He wallows in his misery ... [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 29 Aug 2010 |
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The simple yet effective art of storytelling A tenuous connection with New Zealand, where our intrepid yarn-spinner may have spent a year, allows one of Circa’s many posters for Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – the amazing adventures of Louis de Rougement (as told by himself), to promote him as “NZ’s Biggest Liar”. [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 31 Aug 2010 |
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An adventure you want to be true All stories, true or false, are embellished, and the taller the story that is claimed to be true the harder it is to believe because, as H.L. Menken pointed out, you know that you would lie if you were telling the story. And back in the 1890s Louis de Rougemont had a very tall story to tell which he claimed was true. [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 1 Sep 2010 |
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Poor theatre at its best Wouldn’t the world be a boring place if the truth was always clear cut? We need people like Louis de Rougemont – a real life 19th century adventurer/self promoter who was very so very much larger than life. We also need writers like Pulitzer prize winning dramatist Donald Margulies ... [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 18 Jun 2010 |
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Pace and liveliness lead to insight and pathos As Shirley unpacks the shopping in her drab kitchen, while the houselights slowly fade, we are treated to Gilbert O’Sullivan’s ‘Alone Again (Naturally)’. Two hours later she’s on a beach in Greece, anticipating the arrival of her husband to the strains of Neil Finn and Crowded House’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’. Nice one. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2008 |
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Try it on, it may well suit you From atop a shoe mountain, her memories provoked by specific items of footwear, Felicity tells us the story of her life as a sweetheart, wife and mother. By setting himself this discipline, playwright Jamie Burgess has fashioned a tightly constructed play of surprising depth, wit and humanity. [more] |
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