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.
Boom Shankar – Q Theatre Loft. Sept 6, 2023 Directed by Ahi Karunaharan.
Boom Shankar is billed as “an explosive comedy about life, love, and bomb defusal.” But our bomb is just a plot device (ahem) to get the jokes going — and too many of them fail to go off.
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 […]
ATC’s Production of King Lear – vicious, tragic, bloody & Unmissable
The Auckland Theatre Company’s production of King Lear is an astonishing, dynamic and truly mesmerising rendition of the well-known Shakespearian epic tragedy. World-class, innovative storytelling, with non-traditional staging, fabulous costumes, thought-provoking details and storming performances from a stellar cast.
King Lear and Maori Culture – Joe Dekkers-Reihana: Interview
The Auckland Theatre Company’s production of King Lear opens today. Here is actor Joe Dekkers-Reihana to tell us how Shakespeare and Maori culture overlap.
Waiting for Waiting for Godot – Q Theatre Loft
Waiting For Godot: There’s a simple principle when making cocktails: that the resulting cocktail must be better than the ingredients. If you have a fine, aged, bottle of whiskey, for example, then if you can’t make it better then just take your whiskey neat.
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Pumphouse Theatre, Jan 24, 2023
The Merry Wives of Windsor from William Shakespeare, a comedy of social mores and sexual innuendo is given a ribald and riotous treatment by the Shoreside Theatre troupe.
Antony and Cleopatra – Pumphouse Theatre, January 22, 2023
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s great play of geopolitics and history, a legendary love affair with comedy and tragedy, comes to life splendidly at the outdoor Pumphouse Theatre.
Snowflake – Plumb Theatre (Pitt Street Theatre)
Snowflake had its New Zealand premiere at Auckland Pitt Street Theatre. We send Theatre Peter off to check it out.
The Art Of Black Grace 1/5 – Karanga Plaza: Nov. 20, 2022
The Art Of Black Grace 1/5, presented by Neil Iremia and Black Grace opened on November 20th. The 13th Floor’s Carin Newbould was there. Here is her report.
Thom Monckton: The Artist & The King of Taking – Q Theatre: Review
Thom Monckton performs two delightful acrobatic comedy clown shows at Auckland’s Q Theatre, which are masterclasses in the art of minimalist comedy theatre.
A Traveller’s Guide To Turkish Dogs – Q Theatre: Oct 18, 2022
A Traveller’s Guide to Turkish Dogs is a hilarious shaggy dog story whilst also being a tall tale of Homeric proportions. Made even more engaging by the fact that the narrative is from the true adventures of Kiwi Barnaby’s backpack global wandering.
The Wasp – Q Theatre: September 15, 2022 (Theatre Review)
The Wasp is a dark psychological thriller about the intertwined lives of two women who started as best friends as children until one became a nemesis bully and the other the victim.
Girl From The North Country – Civic Theatre July 5, 2022
Girl From The North Country is not only a Bob Dylan song, but it is an award-winning musical that has played on Broadway, in London, Sydney and now, finally Auckland.
Theatre Review: Jersey Boys – Civic Theatre May 6, 2021
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.
AUCKLAND PRIDE – OURGALA – Q THEATRE – 1st FEBRUARY 2020 Review
Listen up Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland – Pride Gala has had a serious glow-up; and they were looking fine af on Saturday night.
Theatre Review: Owls Do Cry – Q Theatre, October 18, 2019
Red Leap Theatre’s production of Janet Frame’s debut novel, Owls Do Cry, immerses the audience deep in the heart of the author’s masterpiece, loses us in the words, the sounds, the terror, the loss, the sweet moments of pure bliss. It literally left me gasping.
Theatre Review: Sing It To My Face – Auckland Town Hall, October 17, 2019
Sing It To My Face is an intergenerational production performed by 100 individuals split into four groups, each with their own distinct voice and perspective on life – expressing what they think of each other and how their own unique dreams and difficulties shape the world they live in.