Passionate Acts. Produced by Shakeitup. Created by the company. At Pah Homestead TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland. 12 – 22 February, 2012 at 7pm. Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz I’m old enough, let’s face it, to have asked myself on more one occasion ‘what the hell do we do this theatre thing for?’ The answer is always […]
Category: Education
Including essays I have published and work on my PhD.
Sky Dancer ~ a theatre review
Sky Dancer Produced by Stephen Blackburn for Capital E National Theatre for Children Music: NZ Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: Grant Cooper) Director: Sara Brodie Composer: Gareth Farr Inspired by the novel Sky Dancer by Witi Ihimaera Set and Costumes: Penny Fitt Projections: Johann Nortje Auckland Town Hall 09 November, 2013 at 1pm Published at: http://www.theatreview.org.nz Witi […]
An Alternative Queen of Heaven ~ Biblical Dysphoria
‘What exactly do you mean by Biblical Dysphoria?’ I can hear the fundamentalist guardians of the truth bleating already. After all, you can’t mention their Bible without the hackles being raised. Not if you’re queer, anyway. Sheep though they may be proud to be, I doubt their shepherd would have any problem with the terms […]
Becoming Orgasmic ~ A Review-Style Observation
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. I hear and I forget. I […]
‘Romance’ ~ an observation
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. John Phillips recognizes the traditional interpretation […]
Displaced, Fragmented, Relativised, Undermined ~ Then is it Still Pornography?
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. Lisa Dowling argues that ‘pornography displaced, […]
Voyeurism ~ Is It Consumer-Directed Foreplay?
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. A standard view of voyeurism assumes […]
Girls are from Gaia, Boys are from Penis ~ the truth about gender difference as might have been mooted by Tiresias
It’s all about sex. Like, you didn’t know that. Not sexuality, not gender, but simple fucking. You knew that too, didn’t you? You just don’t like to admit that it’s something so primitive ~ so without love, so without affection, so without … meaning. Fucking, of course, is never that simple. Why? Because we, as […]
‘A Copy is a Copy if it Looks Like a Copy’
Below is an essay I wrote for one of my master’s law papers: Yvette Lawrence is an artist. In 2000, Yvette, whose specialist genre is photo-realism, painted a work depicting two figures, one male and one female, seated on a slat bench and holding eight large Alasatian puppies, four each. Yvette sold this work to […]
Insomniac Faith (endless truth)
For Cushla: Valentine’s Day 2009 You are there Of course you are there Where else would you be (would be your answer) Where else but here Heart knows Head Not so assured It is an endless fascination Skin like shot silk Then Light through yonder window breaks Breaks up Cracks up There you are I […]
dykiegirl 