 reviewed by Nik Smythe 21 Feb 2008 |
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Style with content We are invited, like so many welcome strangers, into 90 year old Quentin Crisp’s dusty, cluttered private single room in New York. It is odd to see someone so famously flamboyant living in such squalor, yet Crisp was similarly famous for his frugal lifestyle as he was for his orientation, ostentation and opinions. [more] |
 STEP UP DARLINGS, IT’S TEN-IN-ONE! at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 21 Feb 2008 |
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A feast of skills Whip cracking, a sexy feather fan dance, a nose impaled with nails and skewers, aerial hoop contortions and gyrations, a colourful jelly-fish-cum-beach-bather-tent sequence, a stupendous balancing act, a nasty dance sequence with a dummy, a bloody encounter with a chicken and a spectacular hula-hoop finale Morocco-style … [more] |
 SENSIBLE SUSAN & THE QUEEN'S MERKIN: A MORALITY PLAY at BATS reviewed by Helen Sims (The Lumiere Reader) 21 Feb 2008 |
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Look out for a much hoped for return season! Theatre Militia’s second Fringe offering Sensible Susan and the Queen’s Merkin is an intelligent but hilarious adaptation of the medieval morality play. The story follows Susan, a prudent woman with a love of schedules and order, on her quest through the Underworld to rescue her captured husband, Simple Simon. On her way she encounters many strange and bewildering Underworld inhabitants, most with a fascination for the nether region that shocks and challenges Susan’s orderly outlook. [more] |
 2 B OR NT 2 B? at Downstage Theatre Bar reviewed by John Smythe 20 Feb 2008 |
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2b or not 2b needs to be everywhere In the past I have got very excited about writer/ director Sarah Delahunty’s challenging revisitings of ancient folk tales, in Superbeast (2006) and Eating The Wolf (2005 – review now appended to the Superbeast one on this site). Now she has found the seriously comic resonant links between six classically tragic characters and today’s angst-ridden teenagers. [more] |
 CURIOUS? at Gryphon reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Finally challenging Sex, as no doubt most people will agree with, is exciting and exhilarating, unlike Curious, a play about sex currently playing early evening at the Gryphon Theatre. [more] |
 reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Well written and presented The Serena deserves a much bigger audience than the six who attended opening night. Under the assured direction of writer/director Danny Eastman for the Anduin Theatre Company (UK) – it’s always a good start for a show to have a director – the strong cast of The Serena Syndrome bring Eastman’s play to the stage with a simplicity and honesty that, although not overly dynamic, is nevertheless engaging and thought provoking. [more] |
 FAMILIAR STRANGERS at Meet at The Paramount reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Assured performances on the Fringes of Community What more could you ask for? Entertainment, education and exercise, all rolled into one. Familiar Strangers makes for damn fine entertainment, it is filled with messages but you’re not banged over the head with them, and it’s a good two hour trot around the streets of Central Wellington. [more] |
 reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Cameos in bra shop In Vünderbra, Kate McGill and Sophie Hambleton create a mini-drama in a real-life lingerie shop. Amidst the bras and knickers, we meet shopgirl Sebrena and ambitious rich girl/would be store manager Clare-Faye. [more] |
 THE BECKONING OF HOPE at BATS reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Committed performance cannot make flawed play gel The Beckoning of Hope at Bats theatre looks at the life of the wife of exiled Russian Poet Osip Mandelshtam and the Stalin regime. Michael Burton’s play has been adapted for a solo actor by Marjorie McKee, so I’m not sure whether it’s the original concept or the adaptation that’s the problem here. [more] |
 BABYCAKES at BATS reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 20 Feb 2008 |
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Undemanding romp Babycakes is an undemanding invitation to the wedding table from hell, where a reunion of old call centre workmates turns into a slanging match. Georgina Titheridge goes for easy laughs and stereotypes (and that’s ok if, as it did on opening night, it gets the audience laughing). [more] |
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