Tales Of An Urban Indian: Directed by Herbie Barnes, Te Pou Theatre -January 11, 2024
Tales Of An Urban Indian is definitely theatre with a difference. When writers say things like “the drama took me on a journey,” this time it’s meant literally.
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Chairs! – Basement Theatre: November 14, 2023
CHAIRS! starts off like a long-lost episode of the The Twilight Zone, yet unfortunately doesn’t really know how to finish.
How To Throw A Chinese Funeral – Basement Theatre: October 3, 2023 (Theatre Review)
How to Throw a Chinese Funeral is an immigrant story that asks if the migrant can ever really go home. Told through the travails of one family’s three generations gathering for a funeral, it dives dangerously close to melodrama before emerging as a commentary on the enduring strength of family and women’s place in a […]
WAITING – Q THEATRE: 26-30 September (Theatre Review)
WAITING is a very personal solo show at Q Theatre, written and performed by actor and poet Shadon Meredith. It’s a one-hander, but it’s not a simple monologue. It’s been called beat poetry, but it’s not a poetry reading. It rejoices in rhythm and movement, but it’s not a dance. This is engaging, absorbing theatre. […]
ÉMILIE – Directed By Sophie Lindsay: Q Theatre, 19-23 September
ÉMILIE is an ambitious music-drama telling the tale, or trying to, of the woman who brought Isaac Newton’s Latin prose to the people, and so first popularised –and extended – his ground-breaking scientific achievements.
An Imposter – Basement Theatre: August 29, 2023
An Imposter is a song cycle and melodrama by Ron Gallipoli, at the Basement Theatre. It may begin as melodrama, but ends as something entirely more penetrating.
Glengarry Glen Ross – taut, spare, and full of bile
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS – directed by Brian Keegan David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS won a Pulitzer Prize and became a film called one of the nineties’ best. This performance at Onehunga’s Dolphin Theatre takes us ‘under the hood’ into the untruths and consequences of a nest of high-pressure salesmen. We bear witness to their bad behaviour as […]
The History Boys – Company Theatre – A Fine Night Out
The History Boys – Over there, in a suburb called Belmont (“Belmont?” “Yes it’s that nowhere bunch of shops ‘tween Devonport and Hauraki Corner, daahling”) lies a theatre called the Rose Centre, in which the semi-pro Company Theatre stages several productions each year. (Coming up next in quick succession they have Death of a Salesman, […]