The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams Adapted for the stage by Tim Bray Produced by Tim Bray Productions Directed by Tim Bray Music and lyrics by Christine White and Albert Hammond Set design/scenic artistry by Rachael Walker Lighting design by Steve Marshall Costume design and construction by Vicki Slow Choreography by Jeremy Birchall Incidental […]
Month: September 2015
Akróstichis #7: Aspre veillier, tressaillir en dorment
Kapellmeister, you Being in the space, the cosmos, where Zills jingle and the hammered dulcimer Outs your passion in a tick, and, easy, Forever leaves you raw, chockfull and open Unless you look beneath those emblematic skirts Billowing, swelling, pregnant with Renaissance gems Oh, polyphony! Labourers of love, these goliards, these jongleur Festum Fatuorum, that brief […]
Akróstichis #4: Growing up is a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples
I have this plan: Before this mortal coil drops and Strangles the life out of this deformity, when Epileptic in death I finally find an equalising, an ached for norm, until then Please let me honour women Visceral women, potent, intrepid, valiant Undaunted, each one a muse for this imperfect work Greet each sweetly (uninvited […]
Akróstichis #5: Despite lead paint, we are as a matchless Hotere
Instead of wondering Perhaps, just perhaps, it would be better to come clean: Me, you, all that pretending Each of us living in this ‘between the lines’ canto Judicious though we deem it to be it Overlaps into our singular raw reality when we Hold tight to each other in moments of transcendent tribulation Don’t […]
Akróstichis #6: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (My Dream of Poliphilus)
Each, reaching out, both Out there, beyond what our cultures find endurable (is that a word?) Under the guise of the norm Just you and I (it seems, others too, like her and maybe her) Out, way out, and it’s way too late to change that thought, so Here we are in this whirlpool, as […]
An Evening with the Incredible Mr Capsis ~ a cabaret review
An Evening with the Incredible Mr Capsis Presented by Auckland Live for the Auckland International Cabaret Season Live at Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall Thursday 03 & Friday 04 September, 2015 at 9.15pm Saturday 05 September, 2015 at 6.00pm Published at http://www.gaynz.com Baz Luhrmann said ‘There is no one like Capsis.’ We all know who […]
If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming ~ a theatre review
If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming Created and Performed by Julia Croft Directed by Virginia Frankovich Lighting Design by Calvin Hudson Audio Visual and Graphic Design by Stephanie Croft In The Basement Studio Wednesday 02 to Friday 05 September, 2015 at 7.00pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Julia Croft, artiste extraordinaire, describes […]