The Chosen Haram Produced by Turtle Key Arts Assistant Producer Vee Smith Lead Artist and Performer Sadiq Ali Performer Hauk Pattison Circus Movement Consultant Conor Neill Some productions defy description, and The Chosen Haram is one such show. It sits at the cusp of circus, clown, conventional theatre, and ritual and oscillates knowingly between realism. […]
Category: Sexuality and Gender
Occasional musings, mostly about film.
Protections? What Protections?
Nineteen fifty-three was something of a watershed year in Aotearoa New Zealand. Princess, Elizabeth had assumed the throne, Sir Ed had knocked the bastard off, and I discovered Christine Jorgensen It was the latter experience that was to have the most profound effect on me. I was eight, living my young life in Otautahi Christchurch, […]
With Power Comes Responsibility – an intuitive response to the Israel Folau saga.
So Israel Folau is it again. Barely a year after his last homophobic outburst Folau has again hit Instagram with an appalling post anchored in his need to share his religious beliefs. ‘Christianity’ he calls it, but it’s as far from ‘love thy neighbour’ as I am from being an All Black. Why does he […]
‘Wāhine Kākano – the 1st New Zealand Young Women’s Festival’
‘Wāhine Kākano – the 1st New Zealand Young Women’s Festival’ On Saturday 26 May, 2018, Auckland University of Technology hosted 300+ young women leaders ranging in age from 16 to 22 attending ‘Wāhine Kākano – the 1st New Zealand Young Women’s Festival’. AUT was the venue sponsor and the entire event took place in the […]
Akróstichis #4: Growing up is a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples
I have this plan: Before this mortal coil drops and Strangles the life out of this deformity, when Epileptic in death I finally find an equalising, an ached for norm, until then Please let me honour women Visceral women, potent, intrepid, valiant Undaunted, each one a muse for this imperfect work Greet each sweetly (uninvited […]
Akróstichis #5: Despite lead paint, we are as a matchless Hotere
Instead of wondering Perhaps, just perhaps, it would be better to come clean: Me, you, all that pretending Each of us living in this ‘between the lines’ canto Judicious though we deem it to be it Overlaps into our singular raw reality when we Hold tight to each other in moments of transcendent tribulation Don’t […]
Akróstichis #6: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (My Dream of Poliphilus)
Each, reaching out, both Out there, beyond what our cultures find endurable (is that a word?) Under the guise of the norm Just you and I (it seems, others too, like her and maybe her) Out, way out, and it’s way too late to change that thought, so Here we are in this whirlpool, as […]
Treats ~ a theatre review
Treats By Christopher Hampton Produced by Borni Te Rongopai Tukiwaho for Altitude Productions Directed by Alistair Browning Lighting Design by Ruby Reihana Wilson Music Composed by Callum Blackmore At Te Pou, 44a Portage Road, New Lynn 04 June, 2015 to 06 June, 2015 at 7.30pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Seeing a show at a new theatre venue […]
Club Paradiso ~ a theatre review
Club Paradiso Produced by Leki Bourke and Gaby Solomona for FCC Written by Victor Rodger Directed by Vela Manusaute Lighting Design by Suivai Autagavaia At the Basement 02 to 06 June 2015 at 8pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Yesterday, four incredible things happened. Sepp Blatter resigned as head of FIFA, Caitlyn Jenner came out for Annie Leibowitz […]
Chekhov Gone Wilde ~ a theatre review
Chekhov Gone Wilde Produced by Jacqui Whall for Theatrewhack Conceived and directed by Patrick Graham Costumes by Jacqui Whall Dramaturg Boni Te Rongopai Tukiwaho Staged in the Tiny Theatre at Garnet Station From Wednesday 20 May, 2015 to Saturday 30 May, 2015 at 8.00pm Running time 90 minutes with an additional 15 minute interval. Published […]
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