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Titus Produced for Fractious Tash by Jason Hodzelmans Directed by Benjamin Henson Costume and Props by Gayle Jackson Music by Caribbeanz Southern Stars Steel Band Performance Still Photography by Adam Baines At the Pop up Globe, Bard’s Yard, Auckland For a season Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz It’s been said that Titus Andronicus is an awful play. […]

Duck, Death and the Tulip By Wolf Erlbruch Adapted by Peter Wilson Produced by Little Dog Barking Theatre Company For Auckland Arts Festival Directed by Nina Nawalowalo Composer Gareth Farr At The Pumphouse Theatre Saturday 05 March, 2016 at 1.00pm The Auckland Arts Festival plays a very special role in the cultural milieu that is […]

  Henry V as a play and as a character is inextricably linked with war, and with a consideration of war generally come suggestions of patriotism and machismo. Laurence Olivier’s film version focused on the patriotism of war to give Britain hope and support during World War II, while Kenneth Branagh’s later version portrayed the […]

Twelfth Night or What You Will By William Shakespeare Produced by the Pop-up Globe Company Director: Miles Gregory Voice Consultant: Sylvia Rands Costume Designer: Bob Capocci Composer: Paul McLaney Fight Director: Alexander James Holloway At the Pop-up Globe for a season Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz A few weeks ago my spouse suggested I look out her […]

People Like Us Written and Produced by Joanna Jayne St John Co-produced by Gregory Shepherd Directed by Borni Te Rongopai Tukiwaho Musical Direction by Lavina Williams Choreography by Taiaroa Royal Wardrobe by Gillian Westerhoff and Karen Kouka Hair and Makeup Robert Lloyd, Lea Ehlers and Taryn Banks Lighting by Michael Demchy Sound Technicians Matt Johnson, […]

Legacy Project 3 Produced by The Legacy Project Artistic Director Bruce Brown Script Advisor Roy Ward Lighting Design and Operation Michael Craven Q Theatre Loft 9 – 13 February, 2016 at 8.00pm Published at http://www.Theatreview.org.nz In its own words ‘Legacy Project wants to help tell LGBTIQ stories.’ Legacy Project asks if ‘you have that script […]

  By Jennifer Dann 5:30 AM Tuesday Feb 9, 2016 Transgender actress Lexie Matheson appears in an all-women version of Shakespeare’s Henry V at Auckland’s Pop Up Globe Theatre this month. The AUT lecturer in events management is an activist for transgender prison rights. Lexie Matheson says gender is what’s between your ears, not what’s […]

Much Adoe about Nothing By William Shakespeare Directed by Rita Stone for Young Auckland Shakespeare Company Musical Director Cherie Moore Choreographer Tatiana Hotere Costume Designer Chantelle Gerrard At TAPAC Tuesday 26 January to Saturday 30 January, 2016 at 7.00pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz William Shakespeare died 400 years ago at the age of fifty two. In what […]

A Christmas Carol Music and libretto by Philip Norman From a novella by Charles Dickens Produced and directed for Opera Factory by Sally Sloman Conductor Claire Caldwell Costumes Emma Sloman and Pene Buchanan At the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epson, Auckland Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 December, 2015 at 7.30pm If Charles Dickens were alive […]

  I guess it’s interesting that one of the ‘Words of the Year’ for 2015 is ‘Transgender’. I wonder, though, what this actually means when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, own the word, and then, for the rest of the day, find every form of media imaginable saturated, infatuated and […]