 reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe 21 Nov 2006 |
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Hits and misses Sweet Charity is a feel-good story of a romantic optimist's search for love hindered by a dead-end job as a dance hall hostess and her uncanny ability to fall for the wrong guy. [more] |
 reviewed by Erin Harrington 14 Jul 2011 |
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Tortuous but very funny Helen (Rachel Walsh), a designer, and Frazer (Sam Mannering), an advertising executive, seem to be living the perfectly ordered life of the perfect yuppie couple ... until they are asked to dog-sit a miniature schnauzer called Phoebe [more] |
 reviewed by Dean Parker 25 Jan 2007 |
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SAMUEL BECKETT, LOU REED, UNCLE VANYA, JOHN BRACEWELL ... I leave Thursday afternoon last week. Six nights, six shows, accommodation in a backpackers’ in Woolloomooloo where you have to bludge bed linen, and towels—? forget it, none to be seen. Heat outside in the street is 31 degrees, inside 41 (air-conditioning—? a fan, even—?). And, oh, how I sympathized with Alan Bennett who ... [more] |
 reviewed by Adey Ramsel 4 Jun 2010 |
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Insights into a dog’s life AR Gurney’s comedy burst onto the scene in 1995 and famously featured Sarah Jessica Parker as talking dog Sylvia, pre Sex and the City days. For all that, this is no cutesy animal comedy. Rather it takes anthropomorphosis to its extreme as we dive head first into the psychology of man’s best friend. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 12 Apr 2008 |
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Allusive and elusive exploration of inescapable truth Afterburner, founded in 2001 by Martyn Roberts with a stronger-than-usual focus on light and sound design, specialises in the astronomical metaphor ... T h e S i n g u l a r i t y plays with the idea that when stars have collapsed in on themselves, so much so that gravity pulls in light itself, nothing can escape (Singularity Theory). [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Apr 2008 |
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Puzzling, cryptic – and creepy Afterburner, the theatre company that brought us Man on the Moon (2001) and The Telescope (2002), now completes what it calls The Cell Trilogy with The Singularity, a complex and puzzling play that, like the other two plays, combines astrophysics, human nature, and a mundane earthly setting. [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 16 Apr 2008 |
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Singular piece of theatre The Singularity is a singularly tricky piece of theatre to review. It’s a work enjoyed more after seeing it, when you can put the many fractured pieces of information together to make sense of the whole. While you’re watching, you’re just too busy trying to keep up to relax and enjoy the work. And that’s not a criticism, it’s a pleasure to be treated as an intelligent and questioning theatre goer. [more] |
 T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2010 |
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Superbly focused performances and production elements Despite the two and a quarter hours running time with no interval and the appallingly cramped seating – these green plastic ones with thin cushions are crammed closer, I swear, than the padded red ones we had for Sound of Silence – there is much to commend in this Polish tribute to a 1968 Italian film. [more] |
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T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 15 Mar 2010 |
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An irritating puzzle, but wonderfully spun I propose a boycott of TSB Arena as a venue for theatrical productions until something is done about the seating, particularly as T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. lasts for 130 minutes and has no interval to stretch one’s legs. [more] |
 TAKE BACK THE HOOD at Fringe Bar, Cnr Cuba & Vivian reviewed by James McKinnon 7 Mar 2013 |
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Comedy used as a powerful tool to drive away fear and ignorance But as fertile as the story has been over the centuries, Take Back the Hood marks the first time it has been transformed into a distinctively Kiwi, one-woman comedy show about dealing with the lifelong aftershocks of childhood trauma. [more] |
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