We May Have to Choose is not for everyone. Poetic and deceptively simple, We May Have to Choose is a stream-of-consciousness waterfall of personal opinions, from the banal to the profound. There’s no story, no “characters”, no staged conflict. Instead,…
“Theatre is better than television,” deadpans Bron Batten early in Onstage Dating. “That’s the joke; it’s not.” And then Batten spends an hour thoroughly debunking that idea. Onstage Dating is one of the cleverest, funniest, and most shockingly incredulous experiences…
Biased Beyond Belief, written and directed by Evangelina Telfar, follows an A.I.’s journey towards understanding human thought. As we take our seats a game of chess has already begun between Ernest, an artificial intelligence, and the computer scientist running…
Camp, over the top and madcap are elements I’ve come to love with local theatre company ‘A Slightly Isolated Dog’. And their encore season of Jekyll & Hyde comes back with their well-turned flamboyance. Like all their shows, this is…
Galathea: Into the Bush, on now at the gorgeous Grand Hall of the The Public Trust Building is a show about sex and sexuality. A celebration of diversity and being a bit of an idiot in love, GITB literally sparkles…
I’ve spent most of tonight feeling like a grown-up five-year-old and it has been glorious. With a huge grins on our faces my plus one and I clapped and cheered our way through card tricks, rope tricks, illusions and mental…
When you enter the venue you enter the show already. The cast of Production Comedy ‘A Slightly Isolated Dog’ roams S&M’s introducing themselves and being very inviting. They develop storylines with the audience as we unwittingly become part of the…
Having missed Rukahu at last year’s Fringe Festival, I jumped at the chance to review this new version of it – reformatted for a black box theatre. Having lost their opening night to the combined effects of earthquakes and storms,…
When the central character of a show is a talking fridge, you know that you’re not heading into conventional theatrical territory. However, sometimes it takes unusual plot devises to help us see afresh what has been played on stage many…
Heading into BATS theatre, the foyer was heaving for the opening night of the Short + Sweet Play Festival 2016. With so many creatives involved in this project, it was hard NOT to bump into someone you know in the…