 INSTRUCTIONS TO A DOUBLE at Mighty Mighty reviewed by John Smythe 26 Feb 2009 |
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Total failure to engage It’s hard to feel invited to this piece, despite the premise that we are guests at Viscountess Kasmira Auchinleck's dinner party. [more] |
 POST GAY at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 26 Feb 2009 |
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Lack-lustre characters in mundane plot Given the avalanche of comments that followed Sian Robertson’s review of Patrick Graham’s White Trash Omnibus in Auckland, I’ll have to brace myself for a good whipping on this one. [more] |
 ADAM PAGE SOLO at Downstage Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 27 Feb 2009 |
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Coming the raw kumara Beginning and ending on a marvellous old tarnished sax – sublime! – he also plays with keys, an electric bass, a child’s pink electric guitar, a flute, a clarinet, an African Thumb Piano (Mbira), a kazoo, a wide range of percussion instruments, a beer bottle at different levels of fullness, plus his voice including, if I’m not mistaken, a touch of Tuvan throat singing. [more] |
 WOLF’S LAIR at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 27 Feb 2009 |
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Consummate performance and strong production values “Wolf’s Lair is not a historical biography,” its makers say, “but an examination of the ghosts of one woman's conscience.” As such it delivers a superbly performed 30-minute study of an ordinary woman caught up in extraordinary circumstances when she was young and innocent, but now haunted by what she was part of and unable to pinpoint when and where she could have realised what was going on. [more] |
 2009 – A SPACE ODDITY at Newtown Community Centre reviewed by John Smythe 28 Feb 2009 |
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Way short of its potential Is it fair to review a koha show by a charitable trust that does community workshops? Well yes, if they are competing for your time and attention in the crowded Fringe programme. And when they call themselves Women’s Circus Aotearoa, someone has to say that if you are expecting something similar to Fuse Circus’s The Navigators ... [more] |
 THE FROGS UNDER THE WATERFRONT at Meet at Mac's Brewery reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 4 Feb 2009 |
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Memorable leap into the underworld On Monday evening, along with 24 other “dead souls,” I was ferried across the lake that borders the Underworld by Chorus (Amelia Calder) acting as Charon and five fluorescent coloured frogs. An exciting and unusual theatrical experience, particularly as I wasn’t expecting a full version of The Frogs in a very free and easy translation with many topical references ... [more] |
 COLONY! + GRIMM at Wellington Performing Arts Centre reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 10 Feb 2009 |
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New talent knocking at the stage door Over the weekend six shows gave a kick start to the theatrical part of the Fringe Festival. Two of them displayed a new and talented generation of actors knocking on the stage door confidently announcing its presence with a couple of shows that the group devised and first presented last year under the guidance of Willem Wassenaar and Sophie Roberts. [more] |
 KEEP IT RURAL at BATS reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 27 Feb 2009 |
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Funny tales on the farm Two solo pieces (you’ve guessed it - from last year’s Toi Whakaari’s solo season) and a new two-hander are three short entertaining light comedies that make up Keep it Rural. [more] |
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WOLF’S LAIR at BATS reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Mar 2009 |
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Life at the heart of the evil empire Wolf’s Lair is a 40-minute fractured portrait and monologue, beautifully performed by Sophie Roberts, about the “unspectacular life” of a very ordinary woman who found herself in 1942 at the age of 22 working in Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair), Hitler’s headquarters. [more] |
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POST GAY at BATS reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 2 Mar 2009 |
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Limited abilities Post Gay is a shallow, flaccid comedy about Matthew (Todd Morgan) who is egged on by his flatmate Cecilia (Natasha Ross) to try internet dating in the hope of ending the drought that is his sex life. Though why Matthew should take any notice of Cecilia is hard to fathom as she has no success with the creep of a man in her life. [more] |
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