May 23, 2007

Rothwell and Mainstream. Judith Dale writes in her review of Deliver Us that the mainstream theatres arent up to it (ie doing a Rothwell). I would prefer to think “aren’t up for it” would be fairer....

May 17, 2007

DELIVER US: the forum. My review of Deliver Us by Paul Rothwell has provoked 21 Comments from 13 participants (so far)...

May 13, 2007

Tiny type. The Made in New Zealand review includes: “It is a shame that the attractively produced programmes cannot be read by many...

May 10, 2007

When does theatre work? At John’s suggestion, the intention here is to consolidate and continue some of the interesting issues raised in the prior mega-forum about devised theatre...

May 3, 2007

The Duty of a Playwright? Torture in Lebanon via a Toronto Stage: The duty of an artist is to place art on a higher level than history....

May 1, 2007

Richard McBeef. The one-act ‘play’ Richard McBeef by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui has been posted on the internet. Click on the title to read it (on a site called The Smoking Gun)....

April 29, 2007

‘Kissing Bone’: the wrightings of Rothwell. In an earlier forum – The Duty of a Playwright – I floated some ideas about playwrights, what they do, and why, and quoted Robert Fisk in The Independent Online...

April 20, 2007

Black Grace: AMATA. Further to the Black Grace review and comments, here are links to other reviews...

April 3, 2007

Tax Exemptions For Artists And Their Creative Outputs When Exhibited, Published Or Otherwise Produced In Public Arenas...

March 16, 2007

A BUSINESS CASE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. The recent Staging The Future II symposium was shocked to discover that the performing arts are not included in the government definition of Creative Industries!...

March 13, 2007

Season Thoughts. So what do people think of the various theatres around New Zealand’s up and coming shows...

March 11, 2007

CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION – What the …? In a brilliant stroke of provocation, discussion facilitator Danny Mulheron stirred up the Sunday morning session of recent Staging The Future II symposium...

March 9, 2007

To bow or not to bow…Curtain calls can be a tricky area.  As (in no particular order…) an actor/ writer/ director/ designer it’s nice to have your work acknowledged, and as an audience member to have the chance to show your appreciation for what you have seen.  But then...

March 6, 2007

Fringe Wrap. Rather than attempt a wrap myself – hell, you’ve heard enough from me – I thought I’d start this Forum topic by way of inviting audience members, particpants, locals, visitors...

March 6, 2007

Theatreview 2.0? This site is ace.  But I feel like I need something else. Any plans to include interviews, investigative pieces or other feature-type content?...

March 4, 2007

Comments, Forums and Watering Holes…I noticed that these comments by David Lawrence and Moya Bannerman (below) had dropped off the radar due to being attached to a review rather than posted on the discussion forums, so I thought I’d re-post them here...

March 2, 2007

Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festivals in Schools funding crisis. The Feature article  on the Sheilah Winn Festivals of Shakespeare in Schools includes the following: Who should pay for what?...

February 26, 2007

What have you seen in the Fringe? My own score is pretty pathetic so far this year – due to high work commitments and general exhaustion, I’ve missed a lot of other stuff I would have like to have seen....

February 12, 2007

Project Funding. Helen Clark’s much-touted cultural recovery package of 2000 has been good for recurrently funded organisations. But in the years since there has been no significant increase in project funding. Yet this is where the cutting edge is....

February 10, 2007

Hotel Follys. Site-specific.co.nz link site at www.hoteltheatre.co.nz took me to a page of plush marketing and colourful display. But is this really Fringe?...

January 28, 2007

The pleasures of Parker. Dean, I mean. And my pleasures, not his. With a dramatist, screenwriter, journalist, historian, teller of tales and joyous, if acerbic, wit such as he, why not give him a regular spot to comment on theatre, film, tv, storytelling, the theatre of absurd we call political…...

November 22, 2006

chappie tripps…What a marvellous list of shows and people that have been nominated for this years awards. As someone who nerdishly hounds the theatres around Wellington, I was delighted...

October 20, 2006

When is a premiere a premiere? Quoting advertising for Otago Festival of the Arts: “My Heart is Bathed in Blood – The Fortune Theatre presents the première of Michelanne Forster’s new play, My Heart is Bathed in Blood…” I have also seen advertising heralding this production as the world premiere.…...