Girls & Boys – Directed by Eleanor Bishop: ASB Waterfront Theatre September 13-22
GIRLS & BOYS is a one-woman show by Dennis Kelly under the direction of Eleanor Bishop. It brings a new level of intensity and grace to the stage, Beatriz Romilly giving us a captivating exploration of human emotion and experience. Originally performed in London and New York, and now here by Auckland Theatre Company, the […]
MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS by Heartbreaker Productions. Basement Theatre, 20-24 August.
Midnight Confessions is a pajama-party confessional revelling in the joy, naivety and confusion of teenage friendship and growing up. A love story to girlhood and a more innocent (physical) age.
Scenes From the Climate Era – Q Theatre: August 2-24, 2024 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
Scenes From The Climate Era delivered a series of scenarios from past, present and future —short conversations ranging from scientists in Antarctica, at a bioengineering think tank, about alternative ways to cool the planet, ethically deciding to have children, maintaining community during devastating circumstances. It dives deeply into serious and thought-provoking topics but balances its […]
Red, White and Brass: adapted by Leki Jackson-Bourke, ASB Waterfront Theatre, 18 June-7 July
Red, White and Brass is a story that needed to be told, first on film (screenplay by Halaifonua Finau and Damon Fepulea’i, directed by Damon Fepulea’i) and now retold on stage in this wonderful adaption by Leki Jackson-Bourke. It is a story of passion and identity. And how to be a fan.
Nicola Cheeseman is Back -dir. by Paul Gittins: Herald Theatre (Aotea Centre) 19 June – 7 July
Nicola Cheeseman is Back is a one-woman show about that one woman’s discovery that time runs as inexorably downhill as her now sagging body — that the big choice to make for anyone of any age, is to make your own choices — and to make them now — and then hang on for dear […]
The Dumb Waiter – dir: Edward Peni – June 14-15 Ellerslie War Memorial Hall (Theatre Review)
The Dumb Waiter is a two-character one-act play by Harold Pinter. Last night in Ellerslie, too few people enjoyed a deliciously delivered Pinteresque moment by (potent pause) Productions.
An Ideal Husband – dir. by Hunter Easterbrook: Pitt St Theatre (8-11 May) (Theatre Review)
AN IDEAL HUSBAND is a comedic play by Oscar Wilde first performed in London in 1895. A man must stop his wife from finding out that he’s built his entire career on selling out a political secret. The play exposes the problems with high society and deals with complex moral themes in a comic way.
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, […]