The Tautai of Digital Winds by Iaheto Ah Hi Produced by Kinetic Wayfinding Directed by Iaheto Ah Hi Co-directed by Leilani Clarke Music Director Tom Natoealofa Lead Choreographer Darren Taniue Additional Choreography Jaycee Tanuvasa Cultural Dance Advisor Jaydon Perez Videographer Candice Ama Mangere Arts Centre – Nga Tohu o Uenuku, Manaere Town Centre 5 – […]
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Including essays I have published and work on my PhD.
Tuesdays With Morrie ~ a theatre review
Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom Produced by Adey Ramsel & Sharu Delilkan for Newmarket Stage Company Costume Design by Rowena Smith Directed and Designed by Adey Ramsel Lighting & Sound Design by Scott Thomas Factory Theatre, 7 Eden Street, Newmarket, Auckland Friday 06 June, 2014 to Saturday 21 June, 2014 (check media for times) […]
Twelfth Night ~ a theatre review
Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare Produced by UNITEC Performing and Screen Arts Directed by Ben Crowder Set design by Brent Hargreaves Costume Design by Lauren Dodman Lighting Design by Jane Hakaraia Sound Design by Matt Borland UNITEC Theatre 31 May, 3, 5, 7 June, 2014 at 7pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Having thoroughly enjoyed Elena Stejko’s work […]
The Merchant of Venice ~ a theatre review
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare Produced by UNITEC Performing and Screen Arts Directed by Elena Stejko Set design by Brent Hargreaves Costume Design by Kelsey Dahlberg Lighting Design by Nicole Astrella Sound Design by Matt Borland UNITEC Theatre, Entrance 1, Carrington Road, Auckland. Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz The visual marketing of UNITEC’s ‘The Merchant of […]
Stomach ~ a theatre review
Stomach By Amelia Reynolds and Saraid Cameron Directed by Jessica Joy Wood Designed by Ruby Reihana-Wilson Choreography by Cole Jenkins At The Basement Studio, Greys Ave, CBD, Auckland From 11 March 2014 to 15 March, 2014 at 7pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz ‘Stomach’ was inspired, we are told ‘by conversations about breaking up with friends when the […]
Pericles, Prince of Tyre ~ a theatre review
Pericles, Prince of Tyre By William Shakespeare Produced for AUSA Outdoor Shakespeare Trust by Sarah Burren Directed by Geoff Allen Set design by Geoff Allen Musical direction by Kay Shacklock Lighting design by Beren Allen Costume design by Troy Garton Fight choreography by Michael Hurst In the Old Arts Quad (behind the University of Auckland […]
Fascinating Graces ~ Authenticity as the New Casting Paradigm
Fascinating Graces ~ Authenticity as the New Casting Paradigm To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our […]
A Monstrous Little Voice
‘I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice’ Bottom the Weaver in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s 1999 novel Speak, she writes ‘When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.’ Laurie Halse Anderson Speak is a story of rape, recovery, and confession. After being raped at a party, the […]
Teen Faggots Come to Life ~ a theatre review
Teen Faggots Come to Life Produced by PIPA Created in association with Jay Tewake and the Mika Haka Foundation Staged in the Basement Studio as part of Auckland PRIDE 13-15 February, 2014 at 7.00pm A thousand and six years ago (early 1960’s actually) I went to the Civic Theatre in Christchurch to hear a concert […]
Occasional Stuff – with regular updates – about Auckland Pride Events 2014
Occasional Stuff – with regular updates – Auckland Pride Festival Events, 2014 As an Auckland Pride board member since day one I might get slapped with a writ of habeus corpus for this so I’ll happily say right here, right now ‘mea culpa’. The first event was a must. Waitangi Day Dawn Ceremony at Okahu […]