Hands

Posted 5:00am Monday 15th August 2011

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

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

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

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

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...

Frequency!

Posted 5:20am Monday 25th July 2011

Devised and directed by Miriam Noonan. Devised and performed by Bronwyn Wallace, Feather Emma Shaw, James Caley, Luke Agnew, Nylla Tamati and Piupiu-Maya Turei, (3.5/5). Frequency! was pretty darn hilarious. With the loudest and raspiest laugh in the theatre, I was afraid I would put the Read more...

My Manifesto

Posted 12:05am Tuesday 12th July 2011

On the State of Theatre at the Start of Semester Two, 2011. Having recently returned from Melbourne, I am distressed. I saw a play, Sarajevo Suite. It was amazing, mind-altering in its simplicity and beauty. It was on at a theatre called La Mama which is an old house converted into a theatre, Read more...

THE TUTOR

Posted 12:03am Tuesday 12th July 2011

Written by Dave Armstrong, directed by Patrick Davies Fortune Theatre. The Tutor comes to us from the nationally acclaimed and award winning writer of Bro’ Town and Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby (which if you haven’t seen you should), Dave Armstrong. The Tutor depicts the Read more...

Voyager Seven

Posted 4:17am Monday 11th July 2011

THEA152 Technology Class, (4.5/5). The point of the “Voyager” assignments is to get the THEA152 students to work together and create a show displaying all of the skills they have learnt over the past semester. Sometimes these shows can be technological but dull. Sometimes they can Read more...

Fight the Fat

Posted 6:05am Thursday 26th May 2011

Written by Arthur Meek, Directed by Lisa Warrington. Staring Hilary Halba and Ben Blakely, (2/5). This show sees Laurel (Halba) and Ben (Blakely), two down-and-out actors kicked out of a theatre-in-education programme, struggle to get the “money and mandate” to re-launch their Read more...