 reviewed by Nik Smythe 17 Apr 2011 |
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Charming ingenuity Fair bursting at the glued cardboard seams with slapstick routines and all manner of amusing homespun gadgetry, Boxes is a charming journey through an intriguing other world. The characters, both puppets and human, largely communicate through physical gestures and grunting alley-oop type noises, so the problem of the language barrier between Wellington and Auckland is eliminated. [more] |
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reviewed by Brian Hotter 17 Jul 2011 |
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The eternal domestic struggle I don’t have a huge amount of experience seeing children’s theatre and I am not proud to say that Boxes was the first time my 7 year old boy had been to any show period. However, for me it was a fitting start to what I hope will be, for him, a life long interest in the little black box called theatre. [more] |
 reviewed by Patrick Davies 5 Apr 2013 |
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Smart, thoughtful and consistently good Opening new-kid-on-the-block Counterpoint’s 2013 season, BOX/ROLE/DREAM is a quietly raging mix of bared souls and subtlety. In BOX, Victor converses with an unseen (and possibly non-existent) cohabiter of a sauna. What starts as a friendly conversation u-turns into a frightening encounter ... [more] |
 reviewed by Janet McAllister (New Zealand Herald) 15 Apr 2011 |
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Insight into bitchy world of blokes This 1980s character-driven drama of manners is billed as a ‘battle of the sexes’ but the friendships between the three leading men are the real engine and intriguing core of the play. [more] |
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reviewed by Lexie Matheson 15 Apr 2011 |
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Korder’s slim narrative is eaten alive and spat out with a passion and simplicity that is quite rare Yes, it’s a good play but it’s not a great play. Yes, it has something to say but are we still interested? Hasn’t all that is said in Boy’s Life been better and more bluntly said by Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Mark Ravenhill and Edward Albee? [more] |
 BRAD ZIMMERMAN & CRUZANNE MACALISTER: JETLAGGED at Club Ivy, The Garden Club, 13B Dixon St reviewed by Mel Camp 13 May 2010 |
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As tedious as it is grating Jetlagged opens with an utterly depressing half hour set from Brad Zimmerman. The fresh-faced Zimmerman manages to cover all the most predictable topics in New Zealand stand-up, from Helen versus John, to the Australian accent and all the yawn-inducing clichés in between. [more] |
 BRAD ZIMMERMAN IN SKYDIVING WITH MY MUM at Kitty O'Sheas, 28 Courtenay Place reviewed by John Smythe 9 May 2013 |
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Living the dream Zimmerman’s timing and delivery elicit warm laughs and there is a relaxed charm about him that lets him get away with it. Besides, a guy that goes skydiving with his mum can’t be all bad, even if he goes a bit off-colour (joke-wise) in the retelling. [more] |
 reviewed by John Smythe 6 Apr 2011 |
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A pointless exercise? What it actually challenges each of us to do, independently, is gain some value from randomly tuning in to the five scenarios that play out simultaneously around the periphery of what is normally the Bats performing space. We are each free to move about, engaging – or trying to – as we choose. [more] |
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reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 7 Apr 2011 |
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Gone too far is the question, or not Theatrical performances can take many guises and Wellington has been fortunate over the years in experiencing some truly amazing off beat shows, but probably none more so than Brain Damagefrom Bard Productions. [more] |
 BRAIN POWER at BATS reviewed by John Smythe 22 Feb 2007 |
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Extraordinary imaginings How splendidly profligate, to gather a cast of eighteen – fifteen on stage, two on video only, one musician aloft – to manifest the feelings and other conceptual drivers that activate the brain of one comatose man ... [more] |
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