Beloved New Zealand author Janet Frame’s landmark novel will be brought to life on stage for the first time ever. Filled with fierce heart and visual splendour, Owls Do Cry is considered one of New Zealand’s landmark novels, and is making its world premiere in Frame’s childhood hometown of Ōamaru (4 and 5 October), before heading […]
Husband and wife team, Jo Randerson and Thomas LaHood performed a solid hour of comedy at the Q Theatre Loft last night – leaving the audience gasping with laughter at their strangely absurd, but oh-so-accurate dissection of gender in these terribly strange times. OK – sometimes that laughter was a little nervous. At others downright […]
Tempo has launched its full 2019 programme hot off the heels of nearly sold out shows for Parris Goebel and Sau e Siva! Tempo will bring Auckland City to life from the 2nd – 12th October with 60 vibrant breakthrough dance works.
A child victim’s experience of terrorism is well outside the usual theatrical fodder, but Us/Them drops us into the middle of the 2004 Beslan School Siege. The 13th Floor’s Neesha Bremner attended opening night.
Acrobatics and contemporary dance combine with Māori mythology in Okāreka Dance Company’s new major work WIRED.
Caroline Diara is a French artist who has just arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago. The 13th Floor sent her to the opening performance of Limbs@40, part of the Tempo Dance Festival 2017. Here is her report. (Best read with a French accent in your mind).
Last night saw the opening of two musical theatre productions minted from two very different sides of the same coin.
Blackbird Ensemble, New Zealand’s most exciting chamber orchestra, is ecstatic to announce an awe-inspiring homage to the inimitable Icelandic pop artist Björk.
The Mooncake and the Kumara is a uniquely New Zealand story, set nearly ninety years ago in a market garden, where two families, one Maori and the other Chinese, become part of a romance that uproots their lives over generations.
Written and directed by Jamie McCaskill Somewhere up north, in a small coastal town, there’s a bunch of blokes who’ve been mates since they were kids. These days Stu (Tim Gordon), Pat (Peter Hambleton), and Poppa (Jim Moriarty) pass their time in the pub or out fishing. Mick (Apirana Taylor) has got a big business […]