 ECHOLALIA at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by Norelle Scott 27 Feb 2013 |
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Engages deeply through humour, warmth, and insight Echolalia is a beautifully crafted, carefully considered and exquisitely executed theatrical performance. Insightful and articulate, this production invites audience participation in a way that is not only engaging and charming but also thematically significant. [more] |
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Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival 2013 THE MILLION at Medici Court, Hamilton Gardens reviewed by Julianne Boyle 27 Feb 2013 |
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Good for a laugh and a think Entering the Medici Court, the show may not have technically started but, already, it’s pandemonium in the performance space. The year is 1972. This is a big day in small town New Zealand as the fictional Waikato village of Tutairua prepares to welcome home its one and only success story. [more] |
 VELCRO CITY at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by Hannah Smith 26 Feb 2013 |
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Confident, committed, comic timing Hamish Parkinson and Eli Matthewson were last seen on NZ Fringe stages with Square Eye Pair, a bromantic comedy about television, pop culture and the comic possibilities of couches. It won a bunch of Best Comedy fringe awards, and they took it over to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. [more] |
 BOOMERS BEHAVING BADLY at Victorian Garden Conservatory, Hamilton gardens reviewed by Gail Pittaway 26 Feb 2013 |
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Boomer blooms with talent and wit Jane Keller’s one woman show is mostly musical with a bit of reminiscent stand-up comedy thrown in. With her excellent vocal range, from a background in music and theatre, and flair for facial manoeuvres, Keller is a great comedienne and more than satisfies a crowd of grey haired boomers, with a few Gen Y‘s thrown in for colour. [more] |
 CANNONBALL at BATS - Out Of Site - Cnr Cuba & Dixon reviewed by Caoilinn Hughes 26 Feb 2013 |
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Brilliantly crafted One confident, capable, comedic actress playing ten characters in a one-hour kaleidoscope of social observation and riotous imagination with just one prop on stage makes for a ‘hole-in-one’ at this year’s Fringe. [more] |
 THIN SKIN at Wesley Methodist Church Hall, 75 Taranaki Street reviewed by John Smythe 26 Feb 2013 |
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Chaos and confusion in private play I am tempted to write “WTF?!” and leave it at that. After all I have just spent 80-odd minutes watching something that is so completely fails to communicate anything coherent or connect with its audience in any meaningful way that I feel resentful at having to spend more time writing it up. [more] |
 WILD BEASTS at The Basement Studio, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by Stephen Lunt 26 Feb 2013 |
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A fantastic idea Reading the title and the premise of Wild Beasts reminds me of Where the Wild Things Are and this dark fairy-tale leads you along a very similar path. In The Basement Studio we enter a tent, meticulously sewn together from every patterned sheet you can imagine. Fairy-lights surround the seating and sitting down on cushions and cross legged on the floor, we are ready to be told a story. [more] |
 THE ROAD THAT WASN'T THERE at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by Lexie Matheson 26 Feb 2013 |
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A remarkable romantic fantasy To experience The Road That Wasn’t There on the same day the country mourns the passing of visual arts icon Ralph Hotere was particularly poignant as Trick of the Light’s work is quintessentially Kiwi in the same way Hotere’s is. It transcends boundaries and cultures, makes no apology for itself and provides no explanation as to why it is what it is. [more] |
 SPRING AWAKENING – THE MUSICAL at Westpoint Performing Arts Centre reviewed by Glen Pickering 25 Feb 2013 |
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Lacking in playfulness and danger with some exceptions I preface my review with this: Should Auckland Music Theatre have produced Spring Awakening? Absolutely! It is a brilliant musical. Should it be part of the Auckland Fringe Festival? No. [more] |
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SPRING AWAKENING – THE MUSICAL at Westpoint Performing Arts Centre reviewed by James Wenley (Theatre Scenes - Auckland Theatre Blog) 25 Feb 2013 |
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Rock & Angst “Forget every other Musical you’ve ever seen” says the pre-show announcement voice as the lights dim for Spring Awakening. It’s a statement that is more about marketing hype than the show’s ability to offer something new to the form. Sure, its themes of suicide, masturbation, and sexual abuse are risqué, but nothing that are not presented in a confrontational enough way to be piercingly challenging to an audience. It’s still conventional Musical Theatre to a fault. [more] |
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