Dunedin Fringe Festival: FIND YOUR FRINGE!

Posted 2:08am Tuesday 15th March 2011

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

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

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...

Romeo and Juliet

Posted 1:05am Monday 19th July 2010

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

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

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...

Review: The 39 Steps

Posted 8:29pm Sunday 11th July 2010

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

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

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...

LTT Review: Cicadas.

Posted 3:28pm Sunday 11th July 2010

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...