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 […]