The Moon and the Tides: The Dust Palace – September 2, 2022
The Moon and the Tides is a compelling visual and sonic experience of circus theatre set to the surreal ambient folk music of Carawei Gao’s up and coming album The Moon and Tides.
The Moon and the Tides is a compelling visual and sonic experience of circus theatre set to the surreal ambient folk music of Carawei Gao’s up and coming album The Moon and Tides.
Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream – A Wildean comedy on Death and Mortality. The loss of spirituality to the new God Science. Pretty girls make graves, the impermanence of vultures and why ice cream is sexy. Sort of like butter and Last Tango in Paris. The same source, cows also make an appearance.
Depending on your age, Jersey Boys as a musical reference could connotate anyone from Jon Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen or Frank Sinatra or even Queen Latifah. But for a generation of boomers, their first taste of the Jersey sound came from The Four Seasons.
It’s a large, vibrant and predominantly young ensemble cast that present this version of First World Problems, with scripts written during the strange and ominous year of pandemic and lockdown. Exuberance and humour sit next to heartbreak and remorse. Along with the bleeding out of identity and personality.
The Haka Party Incident: On May 1 1979, the Auckland University Engineering students’ Haka Party was confronted and attacked by a group of Maori activists, objecting to this long-standing racist parody tradition. It hit the headlines and received global attention – a surgical strike at the heart of institutionalised racism in New Zealand. And it […]
Welcome to Le Basement XXXmas Cabaret! It’s The Basement Theatre’s biggest fundraiser of the year, and I would like to report that they staged a full on banger of an extravaganza for us. However, what with Covid-19 and no bums on seats, it’s dire times…
YĀTRĀ is theatre as a vibrant montage of India and beyond. Absolutely topical for this unprecedented year in human history. Reaches back 50 years and also 500 years. Mark Twain’s remark about history included in the program, is made true. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
The world is vast and full – so full, we cannot possibly know everything that exists in it. Luckily, UPU brings a piece of that vast unknown to light. Here is Chloe Bagayas review.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and everything’s pretty much gone to hell. But women still get their periods – not that your typical movie script would notice. But young Mary is a visionary – she’s written a movie about women surviving the apocalypse – with friendships, monsters… and periods.
Playwright Hayden J. Weal has attempted to combine the ocean’s depths and the patriarchy’s shaping of female sexuality into a 60-minute theatrical feast with Deep. Sarah Kidd went along to opening night and files this review.