 CHRIS BRAIN: THE ONEFORTY (NZ) at The Garden Club, 13b Dixon Street reviewed by Greer McDonald (The Dominion Post) 6 May 2010 |
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Quirky quips and anxiety Chris Brain won a Billy T James Award based on a humour that brought self-deprecation down (or up, depending on which way you look at it) to a whole new level. One year on, at his latest show, The OneForty, based around how his social networking addiction had aided in his recovery from battles with severe depression and anxiety, he had news for the audience: it's not over. [more] |
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CHRIS BRAIN: THE ONEFORTY (NZ) at The Garden Club, 13b Dixon Street reviewed by John Smythe 6 May 2010 |
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Riffing off tweets Last night at The Garden Club, Chris Brain experienced his second weirdest gig … [It’s] when he is filling us in on the backstory of his Billy T award-winning show last year – based on his depression, drug-taking and panic attacks – that a thickly pissed female voice pipes up from a back: “Is this supposed to be funny? We came here to laugh.” [more] |
 CHRIS COX IN 'FATAL DISTRACTION' (ENGLAND) at Q Theatre, Rangatira reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe 29 Apr 2012 |
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Intense, charismatic, talkative and smart How does he do it? This lanky Brit defies the odds by getting into the selected heads of audience members and revealing incredibly specific thoughts. While openly admitting he cannot read minds, that appears to be exactly what he achieves with an almost 100% success rate on opening night. [more] |
 CHRIS MARTIN IN SPOT THE DIFFERENCE at San Francisco Bathhouse, 171 Cuba St reviewed by Stewart Lund 9 May 2013 |
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Personal stories and opinionated rants Even after embarrassingly mistaking a couple of friends for a mother and daughter, he is happy to make fun of his own mistake and point out that perhaps he is slowly, "losing members of the audience" with the errors he does make. [more] |
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CHRIS MARTIN IN SPOT THE DIFFERENCE at The Classic reviewed by Sharu Delilkan (TheatreScenes - the Auckland Theatre Blog) 28 Apr 2013 |
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Close but no cigar The foyer of The Classic was buzzing as would be expected on the first official night of the 2013 NZ International Comedy Festival. [more] |
 CHRIS PARKER AND HAYLEY SPROULL IN OUTSIDERS’ GUIDE at The Basement Studio, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by Nik Smythe 28 Apr 2013 |
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Rapid-Fire Pseudo-Edification A-a-a-nyway, the show eventually suddenly explodes into being with a visually dynamic moving-coloured-lights-and-shadows spectacle, accompanied by intimidating inquisitive extra-terrestrial type noises, that in turn drops into up-front Outsiders’ Guide guides Chris Parker and Hayley Sproull busting out a head-spinning rapid-fire cerebral rhyme-busting vocal intro by two straightforwardly complicated specimens of today’s overstimulated youth. [more] |
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CHRIS PARKER AND HAYLEY SPROULL IN OUTSIDERS’ GUIDE at The Basement Studio, Lower Greys Ave reviewed by James Wenley 28 Apr 2013 |
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It’s cooler outside Everyone is an outsider somewhere. Hayley Sproull and Chris Parker know this well, and find fertile ground for comedy, and laughs of identification, in their Outsiders’ Guide: A whirlwind guide to life and reasons yours doesn’t work. The thespianic-comedians are the insiders on the outside, who promise, in beatnik poetry at the top of the show, to expose the “awkward situation / alienation”. [more] |
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CHRIS PARKER AND HAYLEY SPROULL IN OUTSIDERS’ GUIDE at BATS - Out Of Site - Cnr Cuba & Dixon reviewed by Lori Leigh 15 May 2013 |
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Whirlwind of beat poetry, rap, innermost thoughts, song, physical comedy, dance, giveaways and symbolism The abridged version of this review goes something like this. It’s fantastic! Go see it. The end. For those of you who need more, read on-- though I’ll warn here that the creators have labelled the nature of the work “indefinable”. [more] |
 reviewed by Joanna Davies 3 Dec 2009 |
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Not for anyone offended by blasphemy Natalie Medlock and Dan Musgrove’s masterpiece script captures the essence of human and heavenly nature, and manages to cast aspersions on the most preposterous story ever told. [more] |
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reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 7 Dec 2009 |
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Irreverent and amusing poke at Christian theology The great Christian polemicist G.K. Chesterton believed the test of a good religion is whether or not it can laugh at itself. This principle will be sorely tested by Christ Almighty! – the Basement theatre's Christmas shindig featuring a cross-dressing Angel Gabriel, a shamelessly horny shepherd, and some truly scandalous speculation on the relationship between Joseph and his donkey. [more] |
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