Reviews

  • Featured Ship Songs, Ian Hughes, Don McGlashan, Q, theatre, auckland, performing arts
    • 20/02/2012
    • Previews
    Preview: Ship Songs

    An overnight sensation when it toured the country in 2008, Ship Songs' romantic, epic tales and roguish folklore inspired by the true story of how Hughes parents met captured the hearts of audiences throughout New Zealand.

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  • Featured Silo, Top Girls, Danielle Cormack, Q, theatre, auckland, performing arts
    • 20/02/2012
    • Previews
    Preview: Top Girls

    Picture the scene: A wine bar in London, circa 1982, where powerbrokers in power suits are quaffing champagne and getting high on - among other things - Margaret Thatcher's brand of neoliberalism.

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    • 05/12/2011
    Review: The Twits

    Roald Dahl has a lot to answer for. His childrens stories, among them Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, and Fantastic Mr Fox are gruesome and subversive tales, in George’s Marvellous... more

    The Twits, Auckland Theatre Company, Q, theatre, auckland, performing arts
    • 05/12/2011
    Review: The Twits

    What particularly appeals to me as a writer about Roald Dahl's writing is the seeming disregard for narrative structure in the established literary sense. The stories simply are, however... more

    The Twits, Auckland Theatre Company, Q, theatre, auckland, performing arts
    • 05/12/2011
    Review: The Twits

    Opening with a breathless invitation to enter a world of pure imagination ATC's Christmas show captures the magic of an old fashioned music hall pantomime and presents a wonderful opportunity to... more

    The Twits, Auckland Theatre Company, Q, theatre, auckland, performing arts
    • 23/11/2011
    Lethal Cocktail

    “GASP!” pause, “OH MY GOD!”  That was the audience interactive part of Friday night’s late night hospital romp brought to life by Instant Kiwis. But it was also... more

    Laura Lopez Lopez, cocktails, Q, theatre, auckland, performing arts, queen st
    • 23/11/2011
    Review: The Pitmen Painters

    Art. We know what we like, we know what we are supposed to like and we wonder why so many people don’t like the art we like. And there is the perennial frustration around the question of... more

    The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall, Potent Pause Productions, Q, theatre, Auckland
    • 21/11/2011
    Review: The Pitmen Painters

    Playwright Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) is in his arts vs mining element with this traditional fourth-wall play, inspired by the two dozen working class artists of the celebrated Ashington Group. more

    The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall, Potent Pause Productions, Q, theatre, Auckland
    • 21/11/2011
    Review: Instant Kiwis - Instant Anatomy

    ConArtists, those veterans of thigh-slappingly hilarious long-form improv concepts, are playing a three-week season of a steamy, scandal-ridden medical soap opera “so hot they won't show it... more

    Instant Kiwis, Con Artists, Instant Anatomy, Q, theatre, Auckland, Queen St
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