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 […]
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Gala Opening of the InterACT Disability Festival 2013 ~ a theatre review
Gala Opening of the InterACT Disability Festival 2013 Produced and directed by Penny Crimmins Performance starts at 7pm Thursday 24th October 2013 Corban Estate Arts Centre, 426 Great North Road, Henderson Director Paula Crimmens who founded the InterACT festival in 2011 tells us that the festival offers ‘an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of disabled […]
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 […]
Boys and their Kites ~ Dumped, with Strings Attached.
Ever been dumped? It’s an odd and distressing feeling that often results in strange and unnatural behaviour, much self questioning of the ‘what’s wrong with me and where did I go wrong’ variety, and the opportunity to experience times of the day (and night) when you’d normally be sleeping that wonderful, post orgasmic, ‘happy relationship’, […]
Boston Lethal – Parodying a Nation Already Drowning In Self-Parody
I wrote this in 2009 also – mid second term of George W Bush.Not that I’d ever had any doubt, but it was gratifying to see others catch on to the fact that the Dixie Chicks had been right all along. When does a comedy-drama become a satire-driven reality parody? Answer: when it’s Boston Legal. […]
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 […]
‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’
What follows is Brock Thompson’s excellent summary of Eve Sedgwick’s article ‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’ and he wrote it because the APA was again revisiting its assessment of gender and Ray Blanchard had become the new Dr Evil. I republished this in 2009 and re-read it today […]
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