22 March 2011
If you haven’t been acquainted with the name Megan Washington by this point, chances are you’re kind of an un-hip loser. She’ll be weaving through the airwaves and plastered all over the hype machine, just you watch (and then you can tell all your friends that you heard her first). Heralded as Oceania’s next big [...]
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22 March 2011
Washington I Believe You Liar Universal Canonised as Australia’s saviour to pop music, it seems Megan Washington’s debut offering I Believe You Liar, was always set to appease critics. And it’s not hard to see why. Washington’s tracks are radio-friendly enough to reel in mainstream crowds while still holding an adequate amount of that indie-elitism for those whose [...]
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16 November 2011
It’s always a pleasure to see actors having fun onstage. Silo Theatre’s final production of the year delivers it in spades. Stretching the boundaries of silliness, Shane Bosher has put together a sumptuously tacky visual feast. Tartuffe, originally by classical French playwright Moliere, has been shifted from its Parisian origins to the Auckland home of [...]
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12 September 2011
The Herald theatre has been transformed into a strikingly cinematic space for Silo’s latest offering in what is turning out to be a very high quality season. The Only Child is performed in widescreen, on a set consisting of a modern high-end bath, glass walls and visible side-lights. The play itself is a hauntingly dark [...]
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06 September 2011
In his director’s note, Murray Lynch is quick to point out that Bruce Mason often performed The End of the Golden Weather as a one-man-show and claimed to have staged it more than 986 times over several years. This indefatigable passion is fitting for a play that is brimming with an energy that Lynch is [...]
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06 September 2011
For many of us theatregoers the category of show available in Auckland is either cheesy musical, amateur play, something to do with Shakespeare or another production with Michael Hurst’s name stamped on it. But I’m happy to find that times are changing. Gone are the days of PG productions that even your Grandma Gam Gam [...]
26 August 2011
Transcending Tradition: Lycra at its best. In advance, I would like to apologise for my awkwardly pedestrian explanation of the extraordinary venture that is Saltimbanco. I am certain that I was not alone on opening night thinking, “I really wish I could be that bendy,” or “wouldn’t it be nifty to be able to flex [...]
19 August 2011
Nic Sampson has created a hilarious, fast-paced piece of theatre that parodies an experience we all know so well: going to the movies. The spiritual sequel to last year’s Idiots and Idiots 2: Back to School, Idiots 3D is set in a cinema and provides comic vignettes of eleven characters. Entertainingly diverse audience members, two ushers who take [...]
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