Review: Andrew Maxwell – Showtime

Andrew Max­well is baffled by New Zea­l­and. And fair enough too. As he so lov­ingly puts it, our news cycle is a mad mess of fallen trees and cats on buses. We spend far too much time caring about things that aren’t glob­al polit­ic­al con­flicts and Trump. Why should we worry about glob­al polit­ics when […]

Review: Uther Dean – My Fat/Sad

Guest review by Emma Maguire Uth­er Dean is sad and he wants you to know it. My Fat/Sad is a com­edy and a tragedy, a bal­ance between joy and ser­i­ous­ness, and a show with more of a dual­ity to it than you might be expect­ing. In my des­per­ate quest to avoid spoil­ers, I’ll leave the […]

Review: Wilson Dixon’s What a Country

Guest review by Emma Maguire When I glance around the theatre before What a Coun­try and notice that I’m def­in­itely the young­est per­son in the audi­ence I real­ise that I might be slightly out of this show’s demo­graph­ic. I also hate coun­try music. But that’s alright, because Wilson Dixon’s What a Coun­try man­ages to tran­scend […]