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The Weight of a Thousand Oceans — review & giveaway

Welling­ton writ­ers increas­ing­ly (and entire­ly jus­ti­fi­ably) are view­ing the ongo­ing cli­mate dis­as­ter as a rich source of mate­r­i­al for cre­at­ing intrigu­ing, imag­i­na­tive spec­u­la­tive fic­tion. Based in future worlds where human­i­ty has failed to stop a cat­a­stroph­ic, civ­i­l­iza­­­tion-alter­ing change in the cli­mate sys­tem, these sto­ries of what might be, if we don’t sort our shit out, […]

Review: Medea

The Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty Ancient The­atre Soci­ety’s adap­ta­tion of Medea is an unique com­bi­na­tion of both the Euripi­des and the Seneca play — and I must say, I like where it goes. It’s a fresh take on two clas­si­cal scripts, and they meld togeth­er well, adapt­ed by VATS’ Rebec­ca Drum­mond and Rebec­ca Scholtz. The show itself […]

Review: Best on Tap’s Community Noticeboard

This is the only the­atre show cur­rent­ly run­ning in Welling­ton, we’re told, as Com­mu­ni­ty Notice­board begins. It’s a lit­tle sur­re­al to be back in a the­atre — I’ve per­son­al­ly not been in one since like… June? — and it is espe­cial­ly sur­re­al to be wear­ing masks and spaced out across a tra­verse in BATS The­atre’s Dome stage. […]

Review: Maximum Benefit

I’m out of com­mis­sion at the moment brain-wise, and could­n’t get to this show, but the work got love­ly com­ments from those there in my steed. The show sea­son is com­plete­ly sold out, but I’m cer­tain these two will be about town per­form­ing at a lat­er date — they’re a tal­ent­ed pair and deserve your […]

Things are getting surreal at Te Papa

We might be stuck in New Zealand for a while, but that does­n’t mean the world can’t come to us (espe­cial­ly if they’re rich, appar­ent­ly). That’s the cool thing about the new exhi­bi­tion Sur­re­al­ist Art: Mas­ter­pieces from Muse­um Boi­j­mans Van Beunin­gen He Toi Pohe­wa: He Toi Marupō o Muhia­ma o Boi­j­mans Van Beunin­gen. You’ll get a […]

World Refugee Day exhibition — 20th June @ The HUB

This year’s Unit­ed Nations World Refugee Day is on 20 June, and to mark the event the Change­Mak­ers Reset­tle­ment Forum,  Voice of Aro­ha, and Liv­ing Wage Move­ment Aotearoa NZ are host­ing the My Life … to Live pho­to exhi­bi­tion at the Hub (Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty). The exhi­bi­tion open­ing starts at 11am and runs from 11am to […]

Kia Mau festival another show

Hon­est­ly I thought they were done but the team at Kia Mau have one more show for us on Sat­ur­day June 19. BLOK PARTY at Meow Bar  Nau mai, haere mai! Kia Mau Fes­ti­val presents BLOK PARTY. Join us at Meow Bar with spe­cial guest per­form­ers DJ Deez­Naks, halfqueen & JessB. BLOK PARTY is between 12–4pm on […]

Kia Mau Festival week two

What a joy­ful priv­i­lege to expe­ri­ence week one of the Kia Mau Fes­ti­val. I made it to six events. Visu­al­ly gor­geous work with strong themes of connection/disconnection from cul­ture, the neces­si­ty of trans­for­ma­tion, and response to new sit­u­a­tions build­ing off the work of the ances­tors. Each had lay­ers ref­er­enc­ing the past and future, woven through […]

Review: Popcorn

Welling­ton Reper­to­ry The­atre’s newest offer­ing is Pop­corn, Ben Elton’s play. The dia­logue is wit­ty, the script­ing tight and the themes pre­scient despite being writ­ten in 1996. Set in the home of a exploita­tion cin­e­ma direc­tor, Bruce Delametri, Pop­corn takes place over one night as the leg­endary Mall Mur­der­ers invade Bruce’s house after he wins an […]

Kia Mau festival!

The Kia Mau Fes­ti­val start­ed last week and is already rac­ing along. It’s a treat to see Māori and Pasi­fi­ka excel­lence in live per­for­mance — here’s what’s on this week. All I See at Cir­ca The­atre The explo­sion of grief caus­es mem­o­ries to ric­o­chet around her. Mem­o­ries begin to bleed into her real­i­ty. Time col­laps­es. […]