 SUNAMEKE at Western Springs Lakeside reviewed by Margi Vaz Martin 15 Mar 2010 |
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Heed the call of the Chauka Using traditional stories, dances and songs from across Oceania in a contemporary context; Sunameke illustrates the links between Pacific Islanders and the sea and highlights the future adversity that awaits them in the form of climate change. [more] |
 DANCING THROUGH PARADISE at Indian Char Bagh Garden reviewed by Sue Cheesman 25 Feb 2010 |
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Experiencing the magic of dance and garden As we enter the garden four dancers around the perimeter are holding familiar yoga positions and much to the audiences delight we witness children copying the dancers’ shapes like ‘mini mes’. [more] |
 SOUND OF SILENCE at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by John Smythe 27 Feb 2010 |
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Amiable, smile-inducing fun Maybe the elephants scrawled on the walls in the crumbling Latvian ‘apartments’ … hold some clue as to why this rather thin evocation of 1960s-70s cultural-cum-sexual revolution, as experienced in a Soviet socialist republic, works somehow. [more] |
 APOLLO 13: MISSION CONTROL at Downstage Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 27 Feb 2010 |
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Participate: you know you want to Whether we have assigned tasks, volunteer for special tasks, or are (like the press corps) keen observers, we live and feel the unfolding drama. From the time bird-strike causes a gas to vent that’s observed from inside the module to which we have video access, problems evolve that threaten first the success of the mission and then the lives of the crew. [more] |
 MARY STUART at Circa One reviewed by John Smythe 28 Feb 2010 |
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Why do it? That Circa Theatre has chosen to produce this as its contribution to this year’s New Zealand International Festival of the Arts is puzzling. Surely the role of New Zealand companies is to produce New Zealand work, especially of the kind that might be attractive to other international festivals. [more] |
 INSIDE OUT at Opera House reviewed by John Smythe 2 Mar 2010 |
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Exhilarating ‘Gloriously abandoned’ and ‘organised chaos’ are the phrases that spring to mind when seeking to describe Cirkus Cirkor’s ebullient Inside Out. Only when you stop and think do you realise it has to be ultra organised or someone would get hurt. [more] |
 BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA at Pacific Blue Festival Club (Shed 6) reviewed by John Smythe 7 Mar 2010 |
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Fluffy fun hiding spikes and toxins My guess is that Suzanne Andrade – writer, director, performer – was raised on a diet of Roald Dahl stories, or she read them by torchlight under her sheets. Her random collection of tales have that sensibility: an apparent childlike innocence that turns twisted and nasty in a terribly British way. [more] |
 THE LETTER WRITER at Circa One reviewed by John Smythe 8 Mar 2010 |
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Powerful socio-political and poetic treat The Letter Writer aesthetically blends the ordinary and extraordinary, the comical and tragical, petty problems and life-threatening concerns, objective observation and evocations of subjective experience, within the context of an ever-changing world. It is a compelling, confronting and finally deeply moving essay on the nature of exile. [more] |
 HE REO AROHA at Soundings - Te Papa reviewed by John Smythe 10 Mar 2010 |
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Simple or simplistic? An enthusiastic opening night audience welcomed He Reo Aroha to Wellington with sustained applause. There is no doubt it is a crowd-pleaser, with its blend of love story, character comedy, songs and music. [more] |
 11 AND 12 at St James Theatre reviewed by John Smythe 11 Mar 2010 |
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Loses its sense of purpose ... Am I expecting too much, then, of 11 and 12? I wouldn’t have thought so, even if Peter Brook is 85 now. If ever we needed a play that threw light on the apparently unstoppable phenomenon of religious wars, tribal massacres and sectarian violence that litter our news media every day, it is now. And who better than Brook to play midwife to a play sourced from the true life experiences of Sufi mystic Tierno Bokar? [more] |
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