Be Glad You're Neurotic

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012

Be Glad You’re Neurotic is a one-man show based on Louis Edward Bisch’s self-help book, which Phil Braithwaite chanced upon in an op shop for fifty cents. For the past five years he has been putting together the show, taking Bisch’s very serious statements and turning them into humorous Read more...

Theatre du Grind Guignol

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012

Directed by: Ben Blakely and Alex Wilson Theatre du Grind Guignol was the first evening production at Allen Hall this year, and what a great welcome home it was! Seeing familiar faces and taking a warm break inside from the rain felt great until the programme wished us “a terrifying evening”. Read more...

Lunchtime Theatre Round One!

Posted 5:05pm Saturday 25th February 2012

Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre is back with a bang! After a soothing summer break we’re straight back in to it with the newly-named CIA Stand Up Comedy (formerly known as AntiSocial Tap) heading the LTT programme. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Lunchtime Theatre is arguably the Read more...

Be | Longing: A Verbatim Play

Posted 5:04pm Saturday 25th February 2012

Written by: Theatre Studies, University of Otago Directed by: Hilary Halba and Stuart Young From the makers of Hush comes a new documentary play focusing on stories from people who have migrated to New Zealand, and asking what it means to belong to a country and culture. This unique kind Read more...

The Motor Camp

Posted 5:03pm Saturday 25th February 2012

Written by: Dave Armstrong, Directed by: Conrad Newport Any comedy with a “Dutch fascist” issuing orders limiting the maximum weight of children allowed on the trampoline is going to be a winner in my book. Add to the mix that this is a quintessentially Kiwi story, put together by a Read more...

Karma Comedian & ImproNoir

Posted 4:00am Monday 3rd October 2011

Performers: Trubie-Dylan Smith, Abby Howells, Tegan McKegg, Malcolm Morrison, Jerome Cousins, Megan Grinlinton, Matthew Robinson. (4/5) Anyone who has ever been to a comedy event with me will know I have the token loud laugh, which is something I’ve learnt to embrace over the years. Why Read more...

Read Aloud

Posted 6:20am Monday 19th September 2011

Fortune Theatre Studio Read Aloud is the fortnightly play reading event performed in the Fortune Theatre Studio. It gives playwrights and local theatre practitioners a chance to hear plays being read aloud (as the title would suggest). Read Aloud is not a full production of text; it is just a Read more...

Chrome yellow

Posted 3:23am Monday 12th September 2011

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...

My First Attempt

Posted 11:54pm Monday 30th May 2011

Theatre As Is. Jimmy Currin, Luke Agnew, Feather Shaw and Hahna Briggs, (4/5). As I arrived at Allen Hall Theatre, joining an already eager audience in the foyer, My First Attempt was giving nothing away. This latest piece from the Theatre As Is was devised “using chance operations by Read more...