Category: Festival

NZ Fringe Festival reviews x 3

Reviews for three neat shows in the Fringe Fes­ti­val. See­ing the city: a tast­ing menu by Ania and Kim Upstill, at 17 Tory street, final show­ing 19 Feb­ru­ary 2016 We are greet­ed at the door by Ania Upstill and invit­ed to wash our hands. She directs us on to Pip­pi­a­j­na Tui who shows us to […]

Review: Vladimir the Crow: Whispering Ghoul

A bare stage greets us at the Gryphon The­atre.  It seems big­ger than usu­al with a sound­scape that hints at vast des­o­late spaces where the only thing alive is the whistling wind. Then noise! Lights! And a tat­tered crea­ture that stut­ters out from the wings as if glimpsed by light­ning flash­es. Vladimir the Crow is […]

It’s almost Arts Festival season!

Welling­to­ni­ans rejoice for it is almost ARTS FESTIVAL SEASON! From the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary through March we’ll be able to enjoy work in devel­op­ment, new and exper­i­men­tal acts, and some of the best stuff from around the world. First one to start is the Fringe Fes­ti­val.  As they say on the web­site “Our fes­ti­val is open access […]

Semi-Permanent 2015

Semi-Per­­ma­­nent, the exclu­sive inclu­sive dig­i­tal sym­po­sium returns to Welling­ton on Novem­ber 17th.  The Embassy The­atre plays host to speak­ers from around the globe shar­ing their per­son­al expe­ri­ences, insights and exper­tise in the design, ani­ma­tion, adver­tis­ing, graph­ic and illus­tra­tion worlds. It’s great for stu­dents of design, fans of design and peo­ple who just want to expand […]

New Zealand Improv Festival 6–10 October 2015

Improv shows are always dif­fer­ent depend­ing on the ener­gy of the per­form­ers, the prompts they are giv­en, and the ener­gy of the audi­ence. Most of the ones I’ve seen in Welling­ton have been enter­tain­ing. Some are sub­lime and con­tain moments of pure the­atri­cal genius. The kind where the whole audi­ence holds its breathe then exhales […]

Music to brew your beer to

Welling­ton on a Plate is well known for its exquis­ite din­ing, incred­i­ble burg­ers and inter­est­ing events and this year San Fran are putting on a fan­tas­tic series. Music2Brew2 brings togeth­er three Welling­ton brew­eries who have been brew­ing under the influ­ence. Inspired by three Welling­ton bands Pan­head, Garage Project and Tuatara have all brewed a beer that […]

WOAP: Dining through the Decades

This is going to sound a bit sil­ly, but I choose my Welling­ton on a Plate events look­ing for val­ue for mon­ey.  The sil­ly part, obvi­ous­ly, is that no one needs to drop over a hun­dred dol­lars a head on din­ner, but if you’re look­ing to have a degus­ta­tion and matched wines, you’re going to spend […]

Our advice for Wellington on a Plate 2015

Tomor­row begins that most mag­i­cal time of the year. The stu­pid film fes­ti­val has released my friends from its evil clutch­es and it’s time to eat, eat, eat. We’ve been cov­er­ing Welling­ton on a Plate for a  long time now and I think we’re get­ting pret­ty good at know­ing what’s what. So here’s our thoughts. […]

Ahi Kaa Festival

Cel­e­brat­ing Matari­ki with the best of Maori the­atre and dance, the inau­gur­al Ahi Kaa Fes­ti­val offi­cial­ly opens tonight. In a city where some the­atre prac­ti­tion­ers think it’s okay to use black­face on stage because ‘it’s what the audi­ence of the the­atre form would have expect­ed’ it is wel­come. This fes­ti­val will show off tru­ly inno­v­a­tive work […]

Review: The two farting sisters

Dad is vis­it­ing Chi­na. He leaves old­er sis­ter Stel­la in charge of the farm. This is a mis­take as she prompt­ly sells it, then scarpers off to Paris to spend the pro­ceeds, leav­ing lit­tle sis­ter Daisy the almost use­less black­ber­ry patch. How­ev­er Daisy is very resource­ful and hard­work­ing. She is deter­mined to buy the farm […]