Finding Murdoch By Margot McRae Produced by Landmark Productions Directed by Paul Gittins Q Theatre Loft 13 – 23 October 2011 Reviewed on 13 October 2011 Published on http://www.theatreview.org.nz Before crouch touch pause engage, Dan Carter rippling in his Jockeys, intimate peeks at the Rexona- refreshed armpits of All Blacks and Mils Muliaina slurping milk […]
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Including essays I have published and work on my PhD.
The Angel and the Beloved ~ a theatre review
The Angel and the Beloved Sylvia Rands and John Gibson perform the poetry & prose of Rainer Maria Rilke Hopetoun Alpha 5 – 16 October 2011 Produced and Directed by Sylvia Rands and John Gibson Composition: John Gibson Script: Sylvia Rands Reviewed on Wednesday 05 October 2011 There’s an old theatre adage that performance starts […]
Omoiyari ~ take time to really care about others
Omoiyari (Take time to really care about others) A meditation from Karate: Technique and Spirit by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura. I want to concentrate on the word omoiyari which means thoughtfulness, sincere thoughtfulness. It means caring: caring for your family, your friends, your fellow workers, your neighbours, your country. Omoiyari is part of good discipline. […]
Nana korobi ya oki
Before Enlightenment, chop wood carry water After Enlightenment, chop wood carry water Kia ora tatou Nō Ōtautahi ahau Ko Aoraki te maunga Ko Waimakariri te awa Ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi Ko Ngā Hou e Whā, ko Ngā Wai o Horotiu ngā marae Ko Matheson taku whānau Ko Murdoch Matheson te tangata Ko Jack Matheson […]
Womanz Work! ~ a theatre review
Womanz Work! Performances of New Zealand Women Playwrights Directed by KC Kelly for ENSEMBLE Impact Baradene College of the Sacred Heart, Auckland Wednesday 08 June, 2011 Published in Theatreview I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and […]
Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film ~ ‘Becoming Orgasmic’ ~ a film review
Seeing Sex: Becoming Orgasmic “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius Becoming Orgasmic is the video accompanying the book of the same name. It is essentially – or masquerades as – a ‘how to’ book for non-orgasmic women. It satisfies many of the criteria for […]
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory (draft only) It’s Sunday and mid December, a time when things happen. Today is a rather special day in that our seven year old son is playing the Virgin Mary in his school nativity play to be staged during the chapel service. This will happen between […]
Sphoṭa ~ Random Theatre
Sphota I really love this concept and made a theatre work around this idea. Seemingly naturally, I called it Sphota despite the fact that, giving it a name at all, mitigated against the desire to celebrate randomness ~ but, conversely, this decisive act debilitated the idea that anything in the universe is random anyway and, […]
When the Cicadas Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) ~ Regaining Control Through Self-Harm
I’ve published this before but, today being the 21st of April and To Write Love on her Arms Day (TWLOHA), I thought I’d give it another whirl. I’ve found a great, but not exclusively successful, pseudo-addiction to take the place of self-harming so I am largely recovered. But from time to time … and […]
Piss off, Mary, I’m Head Fairy! ~ A Leadership Tango
When art critics probe the work of the recently deceased it is customary for them to say (if the artist has been in any way charismatic) that the art may not outlive the memory of the artist. Mostly they are wrong. This was said of a retrospective exhibition of Derek Jarman’s painting following the […]
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