 reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 19 Mar 2008 |
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Love in its sole Felicity sits atop a mountain of shoes when we meet her, as she looks back fondly and candidly at her life with husband Leon. From their stumbling first dates to a thirty year plus marriage and the raising of their daughter Kate – there is a lot of story to get through in Shoes. [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 19 Mar 2008 |
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Shoes fits bill On first seeing the set for Shoes I wondered how on earth Jamie Burgess was going to keep an audience entertained with only a couch made out of shoe boxes and a small mountain of shoes which covers about half of the back wall of Bats’ stage. [more] |
 TRACES at Opera House reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 19 Mar 2008 |
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Astounding pole work However you dress up the modern day circus, with lavish sets and somewhat tenuous but charming storylines, with loud pumping music and audio visuals, we are there for the jaw-dropping feats of genius. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 18 Mar 2008 |
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Cute Kiwi’s quest for survival gets fearfully exciting Adapted and directed by Peter Wilson and designed by John Hodgkins, with puppets designed and created by Sue Hill and shadow puppets by Debz Ruffell, it is true to the book in key respects. Where Bishop suggests the daytime activities of humans in pictorial panels tucked in around the text and images of the substantive story, the dramatised version uses a sun to tell us it’s day and shadow puppets in stylised settings to depict tribal warfare, the felling of trees, the land wars, the death of a chief, a tangi … [more] |
 SONGS OF KURT WEILL at Pacific Blue Festival Club reviewed by Rosel Labone 17 Mar 2008 |
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More pioneer rocker than old German jazz dude This innovative Arts Festival project by Wellington institution Plan 9 is not so much an extreme makeover as a complete reinvention of both the known and not so well known music of 20th Century composer Kurt Weill. This formidable clan of expert technicians have taken apart Weill’s music and rebuilt it, piece by piece by piece. [more] |
 GISELLE at Shed 6, Queens Wharf reviewed by Ann Hunt 16 Mar 2008 |
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Genius avant-garde he is not [Note: Ann Hunt’s NZIAF dance reviews appear here because they were written for the Sunday Star Times which has chosen not to run them – indeed their review coverage of all performing arts appears to have ceased across the board. Shame on them – JS]] “In Ballyfeeny there is little or no light.” So quotes Giselle's father from the top of a telegraph pole. This is so very true. Writer/director, Michael Keegan-Dolan 's absurdist Giselle is very dark indeed, in spite of some broad laughs along the way. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2008 |
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Poor show This Clarity Productions staging of John Godber’s Bouncers, judiciously relocated from northern England in the early 1980s to here and now, would not inspire anyone to think it deserved a nation-wide tour. Yet twenty-plus years ago that’s exactly what happened with William Walker’s smash hit Centrepoint production of Bouncers. [more] |
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reviewed by John Smythe 15 Mar 2008 |
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Try it on, it may well suit you From atop a shoe mountain, her memories provoked by specific items of footwear, Felicity tells us the story of her life as a sweetheart, wife and mother. By setting himself this discipline, playwright Jamie Burgess has fashioned a tightly constructed play of surprising depth, wit and humanity. [more] |
 HONOUR BOUND at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 14 Mar 2008 |
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Daring assault on walls of steel Honour Bound is the most startlingly daring piece of theatre in the Festival, combining as it does documentary theatre, dance, agile aerial work, and amazing video technology. [more] |
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HONOUR BOUND at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by John Smythe 14 Mar 2008 |
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Potent theatre of indictment: not to be missed or dismissed “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” is the motto of the Joint Task Force charged with running the Guantánamo detention centre. But here we find honour bound, black-hooded and consigned to a very dark place while detainees (the Bush administration has decreed they are not prisoners of war and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention) are subjected to regimes of systematic torture, sanctioned by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to win their co-operation and extract supposedly credible ‘information’ and evidence’. Yeah right. [more] |
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