Every year impro­visers gath­er in Wel­ling­ton to cel­eb­rate the New Zea­l­and Improv Fest­iv­al (NZIF), but this year impro­vis­ors from over­seas have been COV­­ID-19-blocked. Fest­iv­al dir­ect­or Jen­nifer O’Sullivan says, “We have built the fest­iv­al on a plat­form of col­lab­or­a­tion and con­nec­tion, reach­ing nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally and bring­ing togeth­er amaz­ing tal­ent and per­spect­ives. Of course, the cur­rent […]

It’s strange to be back in a place like BATS dur­ing times like these, but I’m very pleased I went along to see PLAY, a gay dat­ing dram­edy here from Auck­land. It’s a play with­in a play, of a sort – the first twenty minutes or so being a form of a draw­ing-room com­edy, then the show […]