Performance

A Dream Romance

Posted 6:19am Monday 19th September 2011 by Josh King

Lunchtime Theatre. (4.5/5) If I was enough of an old fart to remember the Fifties, I’m sure A Dream Romance would paint the perfect picture. Blonde, gum-chewing bimbos, leather jacket wearing, combing-toting sleazy guys and, if Grease and High School Musical got anything right, teenagers Read more...

Chrome yellow

Posted 3:23am Monday 12th September 2011 by Bronwyn Wallace

This week’s lunchtime theatre featured an adaption of Aldous Huxley’s 1921 novel Crome Yellow, a story that mocks the fashions of the time and delves deeply into topics such as art, education, love and life. The director went unaccredited in the programme, so I apologise for not Read more...

Woyzeck

Posted 4:19am Monday 5th September 2011 by Ben Blackface

Georg Büchner translated by John Mackendric; directed by Anna Parsons and Aaron Mayes; starring Joel Rees, Dianne Pulham, Sam Irwin, Jacob McDowell, Lockie Scott When I saw that Woyzeck was in the Lunchtime Theatre programme the word that came to mind was “ambitious”, not that I Read more...

Avenue Q

Posted 4:16am Monday 5th September 2011 by

Avenue Q is a simple coming-of-age parable about finding your purpose in life - oh, and it is also a Broadway musical. Marketed as Sesame Street for adults, Avenue Q is pretty much just that: cheerful (and not so cheerful) puppets and people interact, discovering how to deal with life and all Read more...

2 be S-Pacific

Posted 1:17am Friday 26th August 2011 by Kathryn Hurst

Directed by Nylla Ah-Kuoi Tamati, (3.5/5). Best. Welcome. EVER! The whole cast cheered each audience member inside as they clapped along to music that I’m pretty sure was part of the soundtrack for Sione’s Wedding. Which, as we all know, is good music; it makes me feel like a cool Read more...

Hands

Posted 5:00am Monday 15th August 2011 by Jen Aitken

Written by CE Gatchalian, Directed by Alex Wilson, Staring Abby Howells, Trubie-Dylan Smith and Jacob McDowell, (4/5). Hands, by Canadian playwright CE Gatchalian, depicts a couple - Phillip and Mary - who are confronted with the banality of their black-and-white lives. Their conversation Read more...

Norm and Ahmed

Posted 5:04am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Jen Aitken

Written by Alex Buzo, Directed by Kathryn Hurst, Staring Jimmy Currin and Thabo Tshuma. 3.5/5. Racism, the Polish-American Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel suggests, “is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Norm and Ahmed proves Read more...

IMPROS 11 – Late Night Improv

Posted 11:25pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Jen Aitken

Fortune Theatre Studio, (4/5). Comedy/Improv/General GCs Antisocial Tap have provided the Dunedin scene with a much needed injection of funny over the past few years. Their improvisation wing has really taken off, so to speak, and now has a new home at the Fortune Theatre Studio. Being Read more...

Do You Want to Hear a Secret?

Posted 11:23pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Jen Aitken

Directed and devised by Jacob McDowell. Devised and performed by Abby Howells, Dianne Pulham, Trubie-Dylan Smith and Jerome Cousins, (2/5). This is the first impression I had of Do You Want to Hear a Secret? -  ‘This weeks [sic] Allen Hall production is an experiment into the Read more...

Dunedin Playback Theatre Company: Not a Review, Just Some Thoughts.

Posted 4:13am Thursday 28th July 2011 by Jen Aitken

Members: Sandra Turner, Miriam Noonan, Chrissy Hollamby, Karen Jacquard, Glenda Wallace and Penny Warren. Playback theatre is spontaneous theatre that aims to build community through telling personal stories and exposing shared experiences. This is a bold aim, and in today’s busy world Read more...