White Night Survival Guide
They came in the night, in their thousands. Melbourne’s first ever White Night drew crowds of culture lovers eager to feast on arts from dusk to dawn. Frances Morton ventured into the dark determined...
View ArticleReview: Fly Me Up To Where You Are “Breathtaking”
Fly Me Up To Where You Are, Tiffany Singh, Aotea Square, March 6-24. Fly Me Up To Where You Are: Te Waharoa, Tiffany Singh and Robert George, Artstation, March 2-24 Reviewed by Leilani Tamu Set in...
View ArticleReview: Kronos Quartet & Wu Man “Empty”
David Larsen on why one of the world’s greatest contemporary ensembles left him seething. Kronos Quartet and Wu Man, USA and China The Civic, March 9 Reviewed by David Larsen To begin with, let me...
View ArticleReview: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart “So much fun”
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart National Theatre of Scotland The Bluestone Room until March 24 Reviewed by Simon Wilson They start serious, with a lament, and then launch themselves into a...
View ArticleReview: Circolombia presents Urban “jaw-dropping”
Circolombia presents Urban The Civic until March 17. Reviewed by Catherine McGregor Just before the house lights go down, a chorus of whoops – no doubt part of “street circus” company Circolombia’s...
View ArticleReview: One Man, Two Guvnors “uncomfortable”
One Man, Two Guvnors National Theatre of Great Britain Aotea Centre, until March 23. Reviewed by Simon Wilson There are sequences of enormous hilarity in the National Theatre’s international smash-hit...
View ArticleReview: Hui “See it while you can”
Hui Silo Theatre Company Q Theatre to March 23, 2013 Reviewed by Simon Wilson At last, a festival play that’s not a musical! Not to take away from the splendid musical theatre we have seen, of course,...
View ArticleReview: Leo “charming”
Leo Circle of Eleven, Germany Maidment Theatre March 19, 2013 Reviewed by Frances Morton Every so often something happens in live theatre that flips your expectations and allows a crack of magic into...
View ArticleReview: Babel “exhilarating”
Babel (words) Eastmann VZW and Theatre Royal de la Monnaie The Civic, to March 23. Reviewed by Simon Wilson In the beginning there were no words, and people communicated in signs that allowed them to...
View ArticleDoes Auckland really need an arts festival every year?
Above: cleaning up in front of When the Gods Came Down to Earth. By Simon Wilson One of the much-noticed but not so much talked about showings in the Auckland Arts Festival was called When the Gods...
View ArticleReview: Rhinoceros in Love
Rhinoceros in Love National Theatre of China Maidment Theatre, March 8-12 Reviewed by Gilbert Wong A play in Mandarin with English surtitles about a rhino keeper’s unrequited love for an office girl...
View ArticleReview: En Route “Drift dreamily through the familiar”
[wzslider] En Route One Step at a Time Like This and Richard Jordan Producations, Australia Until March 24 Reviewed by Frances Morton Dear Don Brash, it was me that you looked at with bamboozlement...
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