 reviewed by Francesca Horsley (New Zealand Listener) 2 Aug 2008 |
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Dark forces Choreographer Christopher Hampson’s Romeo and Juliet, performed by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, is -compelling theatre, an outstanding ballet. Reworked from his 2003 flamboyant original, it is more sinister, the characterisation and physicality sharper. Guest -artists Amy Hollingsworth and Cameron -McMillan bring a mesmeric depth to the -production. [more] |
 reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 1 Aug 2008 |
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Miners’ struggle told too simply Theatre Militia’s Black Tuesday revives a theatrical genre that has not been seen on our stages for some time. Back in the 1960s and 70s with the likes of Mervyn Thompson and Paul Maunder our political past was presented through militant, left-wing documentary plays that owed a great debt to Bertolt Brecht, Joan Littlewood, and Erwin Piscator. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 1 Aug 2008 |
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Leaves me out in the cold Ask people to associate a word with “winter” and many will say “discontent”, which pretty well sums up the basic state of the two characters in this play, and my residual response to witnessing its full production premiere at BATS. [more] |
 reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 30 Jul 2008 |
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Characters of substance ... And as the title suggests this is a bombshell of a show, energetic with pace and pizzazz mixing humour with pathos, showing six different women running the full gamut of emotions most women go through at some point in their lives. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 30 Jul 2008 |
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Clever craft but where is the humour? ... After a snapshot pose around the piano, ‘The Red Flag’ workers’ anthem starts the show proper and a court sitting establishes the key characters and a status quo where calling someone a “scab” it is deemed “insulting language” punishable by 12 months in prison against a surety of £20. “The law is a loaded gun pointed at Waihi to preserve the peace.” [more] |
 reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 30 Jul 2008 |
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Original voice The Mall, length aside, is a well imagined and crafted script which is enhanced by the cast, who never slip out of character even when they’re scooping ice creams or writing in the background. Todd Emerson, Samuel Bowen Partridge, Lara Fischel-Chisholm, Morgana O’Reilley, Benedict Wall and Kate Simmonds epitomise ensemble acting, and the way they flow in and out of very different characters is remarkable. [more] |
 reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 30 Jul 2008 |
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Original voice Luv is, as mentioned, more problematic. Like Mall, there are interlocking stories, this time of a beautiful woman disfigured by a shonky plastic surgeon, a brattish gay exploiting his father’s TV job to bully producers into making him the star of his own reality show, a sluttish woman obsessed by a sports star and a love-forsaken psycho in search of a relationship. [more] |
 reviewed by Shannon Huse (New Zealand Herald) 28 Jul 2008 |
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Good start – galloped well to halfway point – pulled up lame in home straight A Horse Story is two plays about mismatched men and women who must break through layers of miscommunication to find mutual ground and ways of supporting each other. [more] |
 reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 28 Jul 2008 |
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Upheavals of a mail-order bride The second instalment of Donna Banicevich Gera's trilogy on New Zealand's Dalmatian community explores the personal traumas and triumphs that lie beneath the familiar narrative of immigration. [more] |
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GO SOLO 2008 at Te Whaea - SEEyD Space, 11 Hutchison Rd, Newtown reviewed by Thomas LaHood 28 Jul 2008 |
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Groups C, D, E: diversity with flair and confidence ... Although these are grouped into sets of four, to see the full programme means watching around seven hours of performance. Last weekend I sat through four and a half of those seven hours (groups C, D, and E), and am now faced with the challenge of distilling the experience, without diluting the flavours that this smorgasbord contains. [more] |
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