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7 DAYS – LIVE at Bruce Mason Centre
reviewed by Nik Smythe 27 Nov 2011
Like on the telly: good for a laugh or three
Have you ever seen that show 7 Days on the telly, late night Fridays on Tv3? 7 Days Live is heaps like that only live on stage with an audience of over a thousand. [more]

NZ International Comedy Festival 2012
7 DAYS – LIVE 2012 at SKYCITY Theatre
reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe 4 May 2012
A wild social experience plus comedy gold
Judging from the crowd’s reaction last night, fans of TV3’s popular 7Days will relish the opportunity to see their comedy heroes entertain for a full uninterrupted 90 minutes, at a far more relaxed pace than the quick-cut half-hour on-screen version. [more]

A BAKER’S DOZEN at 2010 High Schools Tour
reviewed by John Smythe 24 May 2010
Simultaneously compelling, entertaining and thought-provoking: this is what theatre’s all about
“School sucks!” is a perfect line to start a high schools tour show with, especially in places where theatregoing as a relatively foreign concept. It’s from Thomas Sainsbury’s Loser and is the first extract from the 13 plays sampled to create A Baker’s Dozen: a veritable ‘taste treat’ smorgasbord of scenes to which the target audience cannot help but relate. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 07
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYTHING IN THE SKY at Carter Observatory
reviewed by John Smythe 15 Feb 2007
Bright spots but needs work
Some twinkling humour and the odd shooting star feature in A Brief History of Everything in the Sky but a fair bit of it needs work. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 07
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYTHING IN THE SKY at Carter Observatory
reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 21 Feb 2007
Squandered opportunity
A Brief History of Everything in the Sky has a seriously cool venue, the Carter Observatory. Matt Elliot and Mike Bodnar present, together then separately then together again, musings on the night sky. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 07
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYTHING IN THE SKY at Carter Observatory
reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 16 Feb 2007
Those skys ...
While not the first time the Carter Observatory has been used for a Fringe Festival production it’s probably the fist time its been used as a venue for stand up comedy, which ostensibly is what A Brief History of Everything in the Sky is. [more]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY at BATS
reviewed by John Smythe 12 Mar 2009
Sex and sexiness v love and beauty
Adolescence is an emotional roller coaster at the best of times but when a young woman’s mother dies and her father’s emotional dependency makes him tell her she’s ugly in order to keep her at home, the result is not pretty. It’s quite funny, though, except when it’s tragic. [more]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY at BATS
reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 13 Mar 2009
Anguish and pain in collision of fantasies
We will be lucky if see better all-round acting this year than in Heather O’Carroll’s simple and beautifully balanced production of A Brief History of Helen of Troy, a searing account of a teenager’s confrontation with her demons. [more]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY at BATS
reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 18 Mar 2009
Banks on the money
Watching this play is like getting kicked in the guts - in an invigorating, disconcerting and unforgettable kind of way. [more]

A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY at BATS
reviewed by John Smythe 27 Apr 2007
Provocative and memorable
Politics, sexuality and the role of the artist in society have always been key concerns for US playwright Tony Kushner. Likewise Theatre Militia, who have mounted an impressive slate of devised works in the past three years ... Half a decade before he became famous for his two-part epic Angels in America (1991), Kushner wrote A Bright Room Called Day (1987; his first published play) in which the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Hitler-led Nazi Party ... [more]
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