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THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Court One reviewed by Lindsay Clark 21 Oct 2007 |
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Haunting play finely done This is no play for the fainthearted. It offers a wistful commentary on the fragility of the dreams we are bound to dream and the hell that is other people dreaming them for us. Sue Rider and team have put their stamp firmly on the self absorbed world of Williams’ strongly autobiographical memory play and in doing so bring us closer to our own truths. [more] |
 reviewed by Peter Hawes 26 Apr 2007 |
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Breath-taking up-take of a challenge ... And never have I known a more breath-taking up-take of a challenge set down by a renowned playwright than this version of The Glass Menagerie. “Okay,” says Tennessee, “this is all coming out of my goddam head and I’ll see it as I want and I’ll take you where I like.” And the amazingly precocious members of the ALMOST A BIRD COLLECTIVE have said, “Okay, and we might just take you further than that – at your own invitation.” ... [more] |
 reviewed by Aidan-B. Howard 13 Mar 2012 |
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Short on dynamics if you know your Williams In short, the cast needs to push the differences and absurdities of interrelationships more, but they seem to hold back and give us a ‘nicer’ storyline. [more] |
 reviewed by Maryanne Cathro 25 Sep 2010 |
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Absorbable, palpable, digestible The name of this piece tells us a lot about what to expect – it is an event inspired by the television series glee. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of it and it didn’t really do it for me, and as I’m assuming that most of you are not high school kids looking for an extension of the TV experience, consider it a red herring. [more] |
 THE GLORIOUS SKY AWESOMES at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 28 Apr 2010 |
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Deserves further development In a change of pace from the standup fare that is dominating the Comedy Festival, last year’s winners of Two Day Plays Draft 2 – Nic Gorman and Paul Glubb – have fabricated a tangled and twisted yarn about how Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn became the first Russian (and first man ever) and first American to orbit the Earth. [more] |
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THE GLORIOUS SKY AWESOMES at BATS reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 29 Apr 2010 |
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Pie-in-sky look at space race There’s funny ha-ha and there’s funny peculiar. The Glorious Sky Awesomes hasa bit of both but it’s mostly funny peculiar because it seems strange to me that time has been spent on telling a crazy, fantastical, and pie-in-the-sky version of the Russian and American space race in the 50s and 60s without making any satirical point about either the race or the competitors or indeed anything at all. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 11 Jun 2006 |
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Conundrums worth confronting In the best tradition of absurdist theatre, Edward Albee has taken an absurd premise to a logical conclusion in order to scrutinise and satirise modern life. [more] See also reviews by: Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post); Lynn Freeman (Capital Times); |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Jun 2006 |
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Goat-sex play tests the limits of audience tolerance The theatre has become cautious, Albee has said, and people may want something safe and a nice night out but as far as I'm concerned it's a waste of time if you write a play and leave an audience where you found them. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe Lynn Freeman (Capital Times); |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 14 Jun 2006 |
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Dark Humour Playwright Edward Albee fully expected The Goat or Who is Sylvia? to shock and disgust a number of people when it was first produced a few years ago. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post); |
 reviewed by John Smythe 24 Jul 2007 |
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Admirable skills could give greater return In the back corner of a basement bar American Paul Stephanus ... introduces himself to Wellington with his first solo show ... In role, he huddles on his patch, jealously guarding his few possessions ... This being, with a Gollumesque physicality ... [more] |
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