Performance

Review: The 39 Steps

Posted 8:29pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Adapted by Patrick Barlow Directed by Hilary Norris Starring Patrick Davies, Anna Henare, Mark Neilson, and Danny Still Fortune Theatre Mainstage (4/5)     “They don’t give up, they damn well keep going.” – Richard Hannay  The 39 Read more...

LTT Review: Mind Under

Posted 4:22pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by Kiri Beeching Directed by Richard Huber Staring Kiri Beeching and Richard Huber (3/5) This debut performance (a debut for both the play and the playwright) of Mind Under was bold and exciting, the exact kind of experimentation Lunchtime Theatre should be used Read more...

Preview: The 39 Steps

Posted 4:21pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Adapted by Patrick Barlow Original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon Directed by Hilary Norris Starring Patrick Davies, Anna Henare, Mark Neilson and Danny Still Fortune Theatre Mainstage May 21 – June 12 A supremely funny spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie, Read more...

Review: The Capping Show 2010, Alice in Cappingland.

Posted 3:29pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Erica Newlands

Directed by: Thom Adams, Alex Wilson, and Dianne Pulham (3/5) I am always in awe of the people who commit to a performance event of this scale in conjunction with full-time study. As a ‘Capping Show’ Alice in Cappingland ticked all the right boxes; however, I personally Read more...

LTT Review: Cicadas.

Posted 3:28pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by Rick Han Performed by Simon O’Connor Co-directed by Clare Adams and Hilary Halba (5/5) As a reviewer, I feel responsible to respond to this show with the same poetic quality that Theatre Studies student Rick Han presents in his script. This, however, is an unattainable Read more...

Preview: Alice in Cappingland

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Lady Kathryn Schrader

Directed by Thom Adams, Alex Wilson and Dianne Pulham Written and acted by an ensemble cast Teachers College Auditorium, Union St May 12-22, 7.30 pm $15 Student $20 public – onlineshop.ousa.org.nz The Capping Show, notorious for its painful puns and topical sketch comedy, as well as a Read more...

LTT Review: Shared Agendas Thursday 6-5-2010

Posted 2:36pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Co-ordinated by Ali East and Martyn Roberts (3/5) This performance was the fourteenth Shared Agendas event. Shared Agendas provides an annual forum for a cross-disciplinary, improvised exchange between musicians, dancers, actors, performers, and techies. James Reedy explains that the work Read more...

LTT Review: He said … She said … They said …

Posted 1:31pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Erica Newlands

Coordinated by Simon O’Connor, Jordan Watts, and Anna Wood Written by Jeff Heneberry, Angela Band, Anna Woods, Emily Butler Monroe, and Abby Howells Directed by Joanne Bond, Vickie Cross, Paul Rothwell, Abby Howells, and Jordan Watts Starring Maryse Ridler, Joanne Bond, Susanna Mangos, Alex Read more...

In-Compass: A play about NAvigaTION

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Directed by Erica Newlands Performed/Created by Rua McCallum, Nylla Ah-Kuoi, Jennifer Aitken, Emere Leitch-Munro, Lyndon Katene, Martyn Roberts, Clare Thomson, and Charlotte Walkens (4/5)     This play was part of Newland’s exploration of “the ways in which Read more...

Play

Posted 4:23am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by Samuel Beckett Directed by Benjamin Blakely Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre March 4 and 5, 1pm A man, a wife, and his mistress individually reflect on their love triangle from the confines of three urns. They are interrogated in a never-ending cycle until they are shadows of Read more...