 THE RETURN OF THE LONESOME BUCKWHIPS at Happy (Cnr Tory & Vivian) reviewed by John Smythe 16 Feb 2007 |
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Their pain is our gain At last – a group that has proven Kiwi Country music can be sung in a Kiwi voice! The Warratahs, eat your hearts out. They might not have scored the Interislander TVC but The Lonesome Buckwhips have beaten you on that score, mates, hands down. As for the number they offered up for that gig … but more of that later [more] |
 ANTIGONE at Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown reviewed by John Smythe 16 Feb 2007 |
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Compelling analysis of political power and resistance If in the past you have seen a less-than-inspiring production of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, adapted from the Sophocles classic, don’t be put off. Once again Willem Wassenaar’s Almost a Bird Collective ... have found the dramatic heart of the work, revealing its timeless relevance in two hours of intensely focused insight, drama and humour. [more] |
 ARCH ENEMIES AND OTHER CLOSE ACQUAINTANCES at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 17 Feb 2007 |
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Admirable skills As an exhibition of character and physical acting skills, Olivia Bryant’s Arch Enemies and Other Close Acquaintances is a stand-out Fringe show. We can only sit and admire her vocal and physical dexterity as she re-creates a distilled and blended range of the real / surreal experiences she had in New York in her twenties, until – I’m guessing – Immigration caught up with her. [more] |
 INTERVIEWS WITH THE UNIVERSE at Happy (Cnr Tory & Vivian) reviewed by John Smythe 17 Feb 2007 |
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Nothing of value added Having enjoyed Guy Capper’s idiosyncratic style in the past and admired his claymation skills, I anticipated his new show, Interviews with the Universe, would be a winner. With environmental issues finally getting traction where it counts, and Capper about to take his talents to a wider world, all seemed aligned for a potent hour of universal wit. [more] |
 IMAGINING REALITY at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 19 Feb 2007 |
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Witty and stylish imaginings The first laugh comes from the set: a massive pair of y-fronts. It becomes a screen on which is projected a voyeur’s view (is that a tautology?) of a woman in the loo, whose slowly chalked graffiti says it all … A little girl running through long grass morphs into flamingos taking off from an African lake … [more] |
 BLOODY HEROES! at Porirua Hospital Museum reviewed by John Smythe 20 Feb 2007 |
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Psycho-emotional enema, anyone? The thing about clichés is they’re rooted in truth, and in truth your overworked and underpaid nurse is invariably stuffed at the end of a shift, no two ways about that. The other thing about clichés is that, despite that ring of truth, unless they are given some kind of make over it’s hard for the audience not to feel … well, that they’ve seen it all before. [more] |
 DUDE ... I'M A UNICORN & OTHER SHORT STORIES at Bluenote Bar reviewed by John Smythe 20 Feb 2007 |
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Bizarre, darkening, intriguing More than just a stand up comedy show, Derek Flores’s Dude I’m A Unicorn is a recovery exercise in make believe; in storytelling simply as a means of expanding our imaginations beyond the mundane or even the deeply meaningful. [more] |
 VOLCANOES ARE AWESOME at Southern Cross Restaurant & Bar reviewed by John Smythe 20 Feb 2007 |
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Prepature eruption Another group of creative young people has put together a Fringe show which will doubtless take them on a step learning curve, as the unforgiving realities of live performance test the validity of what probably looked promising in the devising / workshopping / rehearsal process. [more] |
 MYSTERY SOUP at Happy (Cnr Tory & Vivian) reviewed by John Smythe 21 Feb 2007 |
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Embarrassing I’m obliged to the Volcanoes Are Awesome crew for appraising me of the new genre that’s “meant to amateur, like amateur porn”. Mystery Soup at Happy is clearly another example only more so, in that there is no hint here of future promise [more] |
 ANTIGONE'S DEATH at Imerst (13 Dixon St) reviewed by John Smythe 22 Feb 2007 |
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Dancing on the skin of a classic ... Anouilh adapted the Sophocles original in response to the Nazi occupation of France. Now Dorner and his cast claim to use Anouhil’s play as a starting point “to voice South American protest against recurrent political interference by the United States of America” ... [more] |
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