 reviewed by Sue Cheesman 17 Sep 2010 |
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A variety of perspectives that engage and entertain Verses is a programme of short works in which Black Grace’s Artistic Director Neil Ieremia uses an eclectic mix of his favourite music for inspiration. This, he states, coupled with his original writing and poems over the years, provides the foundation for an opportunity to play and experiment with these ideas and develop new movement vocabulary. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 13 Apr 2006 |
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Darkness and life in Black Milk The dance proper begins with a naked woman (Sarah-Jane Howard) in long red hair and bright red shoes hanging from the nipple until she frees herself to flamenco dance to a recorded clapped rhythm, using scissors as castanets. Her waif-like vulnerability metamorphoses into the epitome of female power. She too will return, to become the manipulator of the bereft Ventriloquist. Who's the Dummy now? [more] See also reviews by: Deirdre Tarrant (Capital times); |
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reviewed by Deirdre Tarrant (Capital times) 19 Apr 2006 |
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The Wright Stuff It was intense and it was personal. The genius of the work was that many paths met, and it was a sweeping visual statement that seemed to both validate and disallow reality in its darkest moments. [more] See also reviews by: John Smythe |
 reviewed by Jennifer Shennan 23 Dec 2009 |
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“The best photographs of a choreography I have ever seen” This book is a remarkable dance document for the way it evokes, some three years after the event, the live pulse and atmosphere of the theatre-piece, choreographed by Douglas Wright. The work awed its audiences on a national tour back in 2006. These photographs by John Savage wind back that experience. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 30 Jul 2008 |
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Clever craft but where is the humour? ... After a snapshot pose around the piano, ‘The Red Flag’ workers’ anthem starts the show proper and a court sitting establishes the key characters and a status quo where calling someone a “scab” it is deemed “insulting language” punishable by 12 months in prison against a surety of £20. “The law is a loaded gun pointed at Waihi to preserve the peace.” [more] |
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reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 1 Aug 2008 |
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Miners’ struggle told too simply Theatre Militia’s Black Tuesday revives a theatrical genre that has not been seen on our stages for some time. Back in the 1960s and 70s with the likes of Mervyn Thompson and Paul Maunder our political past was presented through militant, left-wing documentary plays that owed a great debt to Bertolt Brecht, Joan Littlewood, and Erwin Piscator. [more] |
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reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 6 Aug 2008 |
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Must-see Waihi 1912. Black Tuesday. Fred Evans became one of only two people to die during an industrial dispute in New Zealand. We all know about the Waterfront Dispute, but Fred somehow has been forgotten over the years. [more] |
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reviewed by Jackson Coe (Salient) 4 Aug 2008 |
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Cutting paper with a karate chop I have a lot of respect for the Theatre Militia, whose plays for me have always managed to capture the essence of being a young and talented artist in the Capital. Their successes are widespread, their shows popular and their talents evident. For this, they deserve serious ups. And yet Black Tuesday left me desiring something slightly more enchanting than its final incarnation offered. [more] |
 BLACK WATCH at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by John Smythe 24 Feb 2008 |
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Ten ciphers in search of a theme This play comes to the NZ International Arts Festival on a wave of Scottish nationalism, pride in the Black Watch Regiment (which was controversially absorbed into a new Royal Regiment of Scotland in March 2006, ending 266 years of distinction), political opposition to its involvement in the Iraq war, and pride in the way the Scottish National Theatre makes its plays. [more] |
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BLACK WATCH at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 27 Feb 2008 |
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Loved it There’s always a danger when a show arrives from overseas hyped to the max, that won’t deliver. Black Watch, when you read the overseas reviews, is one of the shows of the moment. It is based on the Scottish Regiment Black Watch, a potted history though mainly set in Iraq as ex-soldiers talk about their experiences there. [more] |
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