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…
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…
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…