Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none of the […]
Category: Media
Fairly Funny ~ a theatre review
Fairtrade ANZ presents Fairly Funny Produced by Fairtrade ANZ Q Theatre Loft 12 noon for lunch and a show Friday 03 May, 2013 Featuring Michele A’Court and Jeremy Elwood Reviewed on Friday 03 March, 2013 Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz The NZ Comedy Festival 2013 brochure suggests that we ‘join Fairly Funny for a lunch time of […]
Frost/Nixon ~ a theatre review
Frost/Nixon By Peter Morgan Produced by Point Blank Productions Directed by Claire Buckley Designed by Karl Buckley Staged at TheatreWorks Theatre Thursday 25 April, 2013 to Saturday 04 May, 2013 at 8pm Sunday 28 April, 2013 at 2pm (no 8pm show) Reviewed on 25 April, 2013 Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz A month ago, with television a […]
Marriage Equality NZ
Marriage Equality NZ 17 April 2013 (my birthday) marks the final reading of Louisa Wall’s The Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill in the NZ Parliament. Amnesty International Aotearoa invited me to write a piece for their blog Human Writes and I came up with the following: Louisa Wall (Labour), Tau Henare (National) and Metiria Turei […]
Crimes of the Heart ~ a theatre review
Crimes of the Heart By Beth Henley Produced by Galatea Theatre Directed by Geoff Allen Staged at The Pumphouse From 20 November, 2012 to 24 November, 2012 Matinee Sat 24 November, 2012 at 2pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Call me old fashioned but I do like a good play and Crimes of the Heart is certainly […]
Eigengrau ~ a theatre review
Eigengrau By Penelope Skinner Produced by (potent pause) Productions Directed by Paul Gittins At The Basement From 13 November 2012 to 24 November, 2012 Nightly at 8.00pm Contains explicit content. There was a time when going to the theatre – or engaging in any art form as a consumer – was seen as being good […]
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris ~ a theatre review
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Music by Jacques Brel Directed by Benjamin Henson Musical direction by Grant Winterburn Production Concept/English Lyrics/Additional Material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman Produced by UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts UNITEC Theatre, Carrington Road, Mt Albert, Auckland 9 – 17 November, 2012 at […]
SGCNZ National Shakespeare Schools Production 2012 ~ a theatre review
SGCNZ National Shakespeare Schools Production 2012 Produced by Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand Scenes from:Twelfth Night (Director: Paul Gittins) The Tempest (Director: Laurel Devenie) The Merchant of Venice (Director: Raymond Hawthorne ONZM) Friday 05 October 2012 Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland Girls Grammar School Saturday 06 October, 2012 Elliot Hall, St Kentigern College Reviewed on Friday […]
The Sex Show ~ a theatre review
The Sex Show Produced by Ema Barton & The Outfit Theatre Company Produced in association with STAMP and THE EDGE Directed by Joel Herbert Lighting Design by Brad Gledhill Dramaturg Gary Henderson The Concert Chamber of Auckland Town Hall, 303 Queen Street, Auckland CBD 2 October 2012 – 13 October 2012 Published at http://www.theatreview.com The […]
The Gift ~ a theatre review
The Gift By Joanna Murray-Smith Directed by Colin McColl Set design by Rachael Walker Costume design by Sara Taylor Lighting design by Philip Dexter MSc AV design by Simon Barker Music composition and sound design by Adrian Hollay Produced by Auckland Theatre Company At the Maidment Theatre 13 September to 06 October, 2012 Reviewed on […]
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