Performance

Love You Approximately

Posted 2:42am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Maya Turei

The Clinic (Christchurch), 3/5. Love You Approximately (with the really cute tagline “a virtual love story”) was all about long distance relationships. The play consisted of two characters using Skype, Facebook and phone calls to grow and nurture their budding relationship. Pere Read more...

Merz & More: A Selection of Sights, Sounds, Films & Trivial Acts

Posted 4:41am Monday 21st March 2011 by Jen Aitken

from Dr Jonathan W. Marshall’s Museum of Bad Taste “Ceci n’est pas une artist”   In Merz and More Dr. Jonathan W. Marshall took us on a guided tour of a computer hard-drive and video and music collection. Presenting a selection of audiovisual and audio recordings Read more...

The road has no name

Posted 2:09am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

Written & directed by Feather Shaw. Staring Luke Agnew, Rachel Foerg and Alex Ross. (3/5). The programme reads; “Enjoy the play, have a laugh”. Done. This was a great way to kick off 2011’s LTT programme. To write and direct a play all by your lonesome is a big task, the Read more...

Dunedin Fringe Festival: FIND YOUR FRINGE!

Posted 2:08am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

17-27 March The 2011 Dunedin Fringe Festival has attracted over 50 comedy, music, dance, theatre and visual art acts, including its biggest ever line up of comedy acts! Have you heard of Wilson Dixon? Raybon Kan? Irene Pink? Justine Smith (my personal fav)? Ben Hurley or Steve Wrigley? If you Read more...

Review: The Wonder of Sex

Posted 4:54am Monday 28th February 2011 by Jen Aitken

Written by Patrick Barlow, Directed by Lisa Warrington. Staring Phil Grieve and Keith Adams. (2/5) The Wonder of Sex spans the ‘sexual’ history of the last 2000 years, coincidently the combined age of the audience at tonight’s performance, few though they were. Thankfully, Read more...

LTT Review: A Gaggle of Saints

Posted 4:53am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by Neil Labute Directed by Katie King Starring William Tait-Jamieson and Emere Leitch-Munro (2.5/5)       A Gaggle of Saints, taken from Neil Labute’s Bash trilogy, is a confronting piece about homophobia. What is so wonderful about this Read more...

LTT Review: Here We Are

Posted 4:19am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Benjamin Blakely

Written by: Dorothy Parker Directed by: Diana Mockford Starring: Alex Wilson and Miriam Noonan (2.5/5) When going to see a work by a new director I always have a slight sense of trepidation, never quite knowing how the situation will pan out. Here We Are was set on a train and the Read more...

Romeo and Juliet

Posted 1:05am Monday 19th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Samuel Irwin Starring Angus McBryde, Abby Howells, Finn Sigglekow, Miriam Noonan, Alex Wilson, and Jacob McDowell Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre 4/5 Six actors, all alike in distinction,  In fair Allen Hall, where they lay their Read more...

Semester One: what can we learn?

Posted 12:09am Monday 12th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Looking back at Semester One, I thought I would offer my thoughts regarding what works and what doesn’t really work so well when it comes to directing/producing/devising a Lunctime Theatre performance. 1) Keep it simple and clean! LTT is only a 40-minute show, so keep things tidy and sharp and Read more...

Ltt Review: Voyager VI

Posted 8:30pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Directed by Jimmy Currin Devised and starring THEA152 Semester One students (2/5)     This Voyager installation was ambitious and inventive. This stream of THEA 152 students – approximately 25 people, I am going to guess – staged the murder trial of the Read more...