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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); |
 reviewed by Stephen Austin 21 Apr 2012 |
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Direct, passionate bravery Massive Company are a professional group of deviser/performers who take a personal stance to their work. They are asked to truly bring themselves to the process, and ultimately the performance, to enrich, enliven and entertain with vast amounts of truth, raw visceral movement and deep powerful articulation of the personal to explore universals. [more] |
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reviewed by Janet McAllister 21 Apr 2012 |
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All-male cast delivers warm, hopeful life snapshots Massive Company productions are usually long, intense embodiments of serious issues, but for their 21st birthday they've lightened up with this well-executed 90-minute pastiche of hopeful life snapshots. [more] |
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reviewed by James Wenley (Theatre Scenes - Auckland Theatre Blog) 20 Apr 2012 |
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Bravery the Massive Way I see a lot of theatre, and I enjoy a lot of theatre, but it’s a rare show that’s able to cut through and grab you on a deeply personal level. That show is Massive Company’s The Brave. [more] |
 THE BRENDHAN LOVEGROVE PROJECT at Downstage Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 30 May 2006 |
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True ingenuity lurks Totally at home on stage with his mic, Brendhan Lovegrove is fluent, flippant, outrageous and out there. [more] |
 reviewed by Maryanne Cathro 10 Jul 2009 |
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Original, fresh and entertaining This gang of teens from Auckland may not be quite as slick as the 20 somethings so prevalent in live comedy, but even now they show the kind of promise that will have us one day tell our grandchildren “oh yes, I saw them BEFORE they were famous”. [more] |
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THE BRILLIANT FASSAH at Circa Two reviewed by John Smythe (John Smythe: Theatre Reviews) 15 Mar 2006 |
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A spirited play with faith ... And so the upwardly spiralling phenomenon of Fassah – who channels messages from long-gone loved ones and can tell people more than they want the world to know about them – takes Nathan, Claudia and Laughton on the road and into a stratosphere of media-driven fame and fortune. [more] See also reviews by: Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post); Lynn Freeman (Capital Times); Matthew Wagner (Sunday Star Times); |
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THE BRILLIANT FASSAH at Circa Two reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Mar 2006 |
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Channel for laughs, moral dilemma SEEyD Theatre Company is at it again, but this time in a much lighter vein than the dramatic moral probing into immunisation, genetic modification and the like that it has explored so successfully in the past. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe (John Smythe: Theatre Reviews); Lynn Freeman (Capital Times); Matthew Wagner (Sunday Star Times); |
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