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In Review: Me and my sister tell each other everything

September 12, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theatre

Review by Laura Roberts I was initially hesitant about going along to a show called “Me and my sister tell each other everything” considering that I don’t have a sister or even a sibling that communicate with ...

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In Review: Mrs. Krishnan’s Party

The Speakeasy

September 1, 2018

Culture, Entertainment, Theatre

Review by Gayatri Adi 20 years on from Krishnan’s Dairy, Indian Ink brings back the same feel good comedy looking to push boundaries while touching on some real themes with Mrs. Krishnan’s Party. Directed by...

In Review: HIR

The Speakeasy

August 2, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theatre

I began to feel uncomfortable the second I walked into the theatre. The set of HIR looked like a scene from Hoarders, portraying a home so disorganised, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see a rodent scurry acr...

Interview: Playwright Sam Brooks discusses his latest play ‘Burn Her’

Shawn Moodie

July 27, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Spotlight, Theatre

Sam Brooks is one of New Zealand's most exciting young contemporary playwrights. Known for his searing wit, snappy dialogue, and incisive commentary, the prolific playwright Brooks has won the Bruce Mason Award...

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In Review: First World Problems

Johan Chang

July 24, 2018

Entertainment, Theatre

There’s this quote in Jean Rhys’ novel, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, which goes like this: “Justice. I’ve heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn...

In Review: Cellfish

The Speakeasy

June 15, 2018

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theatre

Review by Emily Joshua and Theo Lee There are a lot of ways that a play centered around a Shakespeare-in-prison narrative could have gone. Cellfish eschews the obvious tropes and instead swings for the fence...

In Review: A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

The Speakeasy

June 14, 2018

Culture, Lifestyle, Theatre

Review by Marie-Claire Taylor There are no certainties in this life. Except that you die. This (bleak) premise is key in the one-man show, A Gambler's Guide to Dying. Though incredibly dark, the story has...

In Review: WEiRdO

Johan Chang

April 18, 2018

Comedy, Theatre

About twenty-something-odd-years ago, I was a fresh transplant from Taiwan to the distant shores of ... well, the North Shore of Auckland. Considering the darn place is as peak-white-suburbia as possible (sans ...

In Review: Nina Raine’s Rabbit @ Drama Studio 27/09/17

The Speakeasy

October 4, 2017

Theatre

Words by Leila Salter Nina Raine's play Rabbit, directed by Rachael Longshaw-Park at the Drama Studio in Auckland was a truly extraordinary experience. The performance encapsulated gripping narratives, laced...

Auckland young professionals come together to create comedy sketch show

The Speakeasy

September 29, 2017

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle

Now in its seventh year, The Revue, a comedy sketch show produced by 40+ young Kiwi professionals at SKYCITY Theatre is proving to be more popular than ever. The show is a similar format to Saturday Night Li...

In Review: Romeo and Juliet by Broken Quill Theatre

The Speakeasy

September 12, 2017

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theatre

Romeo and Juliet by Broken Quill Theatre Review by Holly Roberts Going into Romeo and Juliet by Broken Quill Theatre last night I was more than a little intrigued. I'd heard it included live emo rock mus...

Interview: Alice Canton of OTHER [chinese]

The Speakeasy

August 21, 2017

Theatre

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Sometime in early June I attended a theatre workshop run by Alice Canton and Julie Zhu called “What is Chinese?”. It featured a series of activities and discussions on what “being Chinese” was in Aotearoa/New Z...

Interview: Chance to Ignite

The Speakeasy

July 19, 2017

Theatre

It was midday when I visited Trinity Hall in Kingsland, where the cast of Chance to Ignite were practicing for their upcoming show. I met with two of the energetic performers from the set, Stef and Eleanor, bot...

Chye-Ling Huang talks about her new play ‘Like Sex’

Shawn Moodie

May 30, 2017

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Spotlight, Watch, Watch and Listen

Prudes, sluts, users and the used - in a carousel of episodic scenes, Like Sex a bold play written by 2015 and 2016 Playmarket b425 Playwright award winner Nathan Joe, tears into the tropes of teenage sex as so...

In Review: Like Sex

Jennifer Kirby

May 27, 2017

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle

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Like Sex | The Basement Theatre | 24 May-3 June, 6:30pm Review by Jennifer Kirby If you attended high school in New Zealand, chances are you remember the horror that was the dreaded “beep test.” Designed to...

Auckland Fringe: Nathan Joe Discusses ‘Penis Elegy’

The Speakeasy

March 1, 2017

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Watch, Watch and Listen

During the Auckland Fringe Festival, the Basement Theatre is transformed into a 'Performance Salon' - think Moulin Rouge at the beach – where works of all kinds pop up around you as you lounge and drink in betw...

Ben Anderson talks ‘The Last Man on Earth is Trapped in a Supermarket’

Shawn Moodie

February 17, 2017

Culture, Lifestyle, Watch, Watch and Listen

An eerie experience of hours spent working alone in a Countdown supermarket drove Ben Anderson to write a play - and not just any play. Anderson's "supermarket apocalypse puppet-thriller" follows Tom, a man ...

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. – This Play Should Not Be Well Behaved

Shawn Moodie

January 26, 2017

Culture, Lifestyle, Night Life

REVOLUTIONISE THE WORK. REVOLUTIONISE THE LANGUAGE. REVOLUTIONISE THE WORLD. Subversive and darkly comic, the New Zealand premiere of Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. sees Silo Theatre return to the venue where...

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In Review: Carbolic Productions presents ‘The Revue 2016’

Johan Chang

November 11, 2016

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle

It certainly isn't everyday you get to see one of your best friends in drag. Of course, that wasn't the defining feature of how I ended up at the preview night for Carbolic Production's 28 Hours Later, a sho...

Party with the World’s Greatest (?) Lover: Don Juan is coming soon

Sophie David

October 7, 2016

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle

Don Juan will be hitting Q Theatre’s Loft every weekend from 27 October – 12 November, and it looks set to be a bit of a revel. Five fabulous French performers retell the (relatively ridiculous) story of Don Ju...

Love, Lust and Lies – The goods in Hippolytus Veiled

Sophie David

August 19, 2016

Culture, Entertainment

Hippolytus Veiled outraged the Greeks, a people not known for their dramatic, moral or sexual restraint. So, modernised, and performed in the close surrounds of The Basement Theatre, Nathan Joe’s take on the pl...

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