 THE BOWLER HAT at BATS reviewed by Michael Wray 10 Feb 2007 |
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Satisfyingly artistic surreal amusement Angie Farrow’s new play uses the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte as inspiration. The play begins with Magritte’s funeral, attended by various members of his family and friends. The problem is that his clothes - the classic dark suit, white shirt, black tie and bowler hat – are missing. And we’re told that Catholics get so funny about nakedness ... [more] |
 THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE at Comedy Chamber, Town Hall, THE EDGE reviewed by Sian Robertson 11 May 2011 |
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Charming, inventive and very funny An intense young man with a piece of black tape over his mouth and very expressive eyes sits on the stage impatiently waiting for the audience to be seated and the lights to go down. The show starts the moment you step through the door, and finishes before you want it to. [more] |
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THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE at Comedy Chamber, Town Hall, THE EDGE reviewed by Jacqueline Smith (New Zealand Herald) 12 May 2011 |
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Silence deepens laughter lines Sam Wills, the guy behind the cheeky and ingenious caricature The Boy With Tape on His Face, sits patiently as his sold-out crowd take their seats in the stately chamber, his satchel of tricks slung across his shoulder and his first gag slapped across his mouth. [more] |
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THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE at San Francisco Bathhouse, 171 Cuba St reviewed by Robbie Ellis 3 May 2011 |
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Uplifted audience left with smiles on their faces The Boy With Tape On His Face (real name Sam Wills) doesn’t say a word for the whole show; wears a black-and-white striped shirt; and uses the accordion-and-glockenspiel soundtrack to Amélie as his default background music, yet I can’t, strictly speaking, call it mime either. [more] |
 THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE … MORE TAPE at Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe 2 May 2013 |
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What could be better? Like kids anticipating The Cat In The Hat’s return on a rainy day, we wonder: what will The Boy and his extraordinary mind come up with this time, from the objects around him, the audience with him, the music and imaginings inside him? Using dress ups and junk scattered round the stage, The Boy is back, with silent mischief, tricks and skits (some old, some new), underpinned by the genius that Sam Wills is now recognised for around the world. [more] |
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THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE … MORE TAPE at Bruce Mason Centre reviewed by Nik Smythe 10 May 2012 |
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Divine and dastardly games and gags The seemingly makeshift assortment of cardboard boxes, a chair, a stool, shelf unit and bits and pieces (a microphone even!?), creates an anticipatory air of something playful and imagination-based. As this is my first time witnessing the now legendary face-taped Boy, I’m intrigued and excited, looking forward to learning what all the fuss is about and generally expecting the unexpected. [more] |
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THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE … MORE TAPE at Opera House - return season reviewed by Lori Leigh 11 May 2013 |
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Clever invention, community, comedy and play The real magic in the show, however, is the audience participation. There is sheer delight in watching the ways Wills can coax and manipulate his audience into doing whatever he chooses, without saying a single word. Is it his charismatic eyes or Chaplinesque physicality that’s so persuasive? I can’t tell. But he is damn persuasive [more] |
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THE BOYS IN THE BAND at Downstage Theatre reviewed by John Smythe (National Business Review) 3 Feb 2006 |
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Compelling revival Fortunately revivals such as this, splendidly cast and directed by Jonathon Hendry, transcend the bizarre demands of PC propagandists who want plays to idealise life. Compelling socio-political points are made by telling it like it was at the time for these particular flawed individuals. [more] See also reviews by: Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post); Lynn Freeman (Capital Times); |
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THE BOYS IN THE BAND at Downstage Theatre reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 30 Jan 2006 |
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Classy ensemble playing Jonathon Hendry’s sleekly mounted and brilliantly acted production of this 1968 off-Broadway play is yet another hit production from the resourceful Silo Theatre which brought us last year an older but no less slick, conventional and commercial American play, The Women, that was also full of fashionable clothes and a far too neat cross-section of stereotypes. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe (National Business Review); Lynn Freeman (Capital Times); |
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THE BOYS IN THE BAND at Downstage Theatre reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 1 Feb 2006 |
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Viciously funny The play is a few decades old and ... shows its age. The production, though, is stylish and viciously funny as only eight screaming queens and one ‘straighter than straight’ guy together and drunk in one room, could be. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe (National Business Review); Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post); |
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