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 […]
Category: Politics
Queen ~ a theatre review
Queen Produced by Smoke Labours Productions Written by Sam Brooks Directed by Harry McNaughton Driving to the theatre I found myself wondering why I was going to Queen at all. Two lesbians (one transgendered) and an eleven year old straight boy going, quite excitedly, to experience a play exclusively about the gay male experience. I […]
Mumbai Monologues – A Thousand Unsaid Words ~ a theatre review
Mumbai Monologues – A Thousand Unsaid Words Somewhat of a review … From the moment I began to discuss Agaram Productions involvement in the Auckland Pride Festival Gala ‘Le Jeu de Mechant’, Mumbai Monologues felt like a good bet to me. I was thrilled when they agreed to be part of it. Ahi Karunaharan and […]
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 […]
My Life, My Story, My South Auckland ~ a theatre review
My Life, My Story, My South Auckland Produced by South Auckland Theatre Collective Devised and directed by Chris Molloy At Fresh Gallery From 23 to 26 October, 2013 The drive from my home to Otara usually takes about 15 minutes. I’d left myself plenty of time – 40 minutes – to get to the Otara […]
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 […]
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 […]
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