“We Wish We’d Had This Show When We Were Kids”: Interview With “The Glitter Garden” Playwrights George Fowler and Lori Leigh
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre,...
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New Zealand Covid Response Dramatized in Moving Verbatim Play: “Transmission” by Stuart McKenzie
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20...
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Satiric Re-staging of Colonial Battleground : “Company Kamupene” Written and Performed by Jamie McCaskill.
Company Kamupene Written and performed by Jamie McCaskill. Presented by Tikapa Productions and The...
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UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival 2019
In September 2019, the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival took place in Dunedin, New...
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Dame Kate Harcourt And the Art of the Senior Actor
In June 2017 the eminent New Zealand actor Dame Kate Harcourt celebrated her 90th birthday at...
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“Fission”: Entangling Science, Theatre and Mātauranga Māori.
In the era of Covid 19, when our theatres have been forced to close throughout Aotearoa/New...
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Invisible Diaries: Lay Your Burdens Down Day
I’ve hit the wall. The big move is over but moving the “small stuff” all day reminded...
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Invisible Diaries: Who Is That Masked Man?
It’s TRIV NIGHT! Some TV People we know have kept the community vibe going by organizing online...
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New Zealand’s Virtual Covid-19 Lockdown Festival
Zoom became the tool-de-jour for work meetings and social interaction with family and friends – and its potential for creating Lockdown Theatre was immediately explored, using either Facebook Live or YouTube as platforms for the recorded shows.
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Flawless Live Stream of Award-winning New Zealand Solo Show Celebrates Transgender Tdentity
Princess Boy Wonder, performed by George Fowler (aka Hugo Grrrl), Directed by Lori Leigh, BATS...
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Re-visiting Sartre with a Pacific Twist: “Uma Lava” by Victor Rodger
Uma Lava by Victor Rodger, Circa Theatre, Wellington. 23 November – 7 December 2019. Directed by...
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Together As One: New Zealand’s First Festival of Solo Performance
TAHI Fess’s: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, Artistic Director: Sally Richards....
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“Re-Storying the Southside”: A Polynesian “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Dream The Black Friars Theatre Company, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, 18-21 September 2019 Where...
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Irish theatre company Restless Ecstasy’s production of New Zealand modern classic Skin Tight retains its tension in Dublin showing.
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Riddled With Vivid Snapshots of The Human Condition: “Waiting for Godot” in New Zealand
Vladimir and Estragon, who nickname each other Didi and Gogo, languish nowhere in particular and...
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A Triumph Of Performative Experimentation: BATS Theatre, Wellington Celebrates 30 Years
As New Zealand has lost two of its longest-running professional theatres in the last seven years,...
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Tribute to Author Celebrates the Life of The Imagination: “I Am Not Margaret Mahy”
I am not Margaret Mahy by Jane Waddell, based on Notes of a Bag Lady by Margaret Mahy, BATS...
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New Play Examines Shakespeare’s Gender Politics: Sarah Delahunty’s “This Long Winter”
Despite being dead for 400 years and having lived and worked on the far side of Planet Earth,...
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One Story, Two Languages: Sign And Spoken Language Share The Theatre Stage
Would you go and see a bilingual or multilingual show if you only spoke one of the languages...
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Through A New Zealander’s Eyes: The Subjunctive World, Notes From Venice Beach
After a thirteen-hour flight from Auckland, New Zealand, I am in Jim Morrison country–or so I...
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