The Wellingtonista

June 12, 2018

Review: The Atom Room

150 years into the future Sarah and Dan­ny meet, fall in love, and get mar­ried in a Welling­ton dev­as­tat­ed by earth­quakes, cli­mate change, and the effects of a dis­tant nuclear explo­sion. Then their careers sep­a­rate them by dis­tance — Dan­ny in Welling­ton work­ing to save the Earth, Sarah on Mars work­ing to cre­ate a new […]

librarykris
Uncategorised
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June 11, 2018

Saint Fabiola fabulousness

Last Fri­day we had a love­ly time at the open­ing of St Fabi­o­la on Lom­bard Street (you may have seen us tweet­ing about the pies from Pick­le and Pie, because, you know, pri­or­i­ties), so this week, we caught up with the own­er Kirsten for a chat over email. What’s your back­ground before the shop? I’m an […]

Joanna
Art / Community / Fashion / Retail
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June 4, 2018

My predictions for Wellington on a Plate 2018

Tomor­row is my favourite launch of the year — the Welling­ton on a Plate pro­gramme. In advance, and with­out hav­ing looked at their web­site, here’s what I think it will include (or not) so we can look tomor­row and see if I was right or wrong. There’s always a trend­ing meat (wow is that a […]

Joanna
Beer / Food & Drink
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June 4, 2018

NZSO Shed Series: “Juxtaposition”

My first trip to the new Shed 6 was a few weeks ago to see con­tem­po­rary music out­fit Stro­ma. They were play­ing a sam­pler of mod­ern art music, stretch­ing from Rav­el and Schoen­berg, through Boulez and Berio, to more recent work by Gillian White­head and David Lang. Music writer Alex Ross was our tour guide, […]

Tom Ackroyd
Art / Events / Music
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May 29, 2018

NZSO — The Shed Series

Not every­one is dig­ging the orches­tra in the con­cert hall, although let me just say that the NZSO trib­ute a few weeks ago to Torvill and Dean’s stand­out Bolero per­for­mance in 1984 was bloody pow­er­ful. Gen­er­al­ly the con­cert vibe appeals to one kind of crowd and the stand­ing in a shed gig appeals to anoth­er. […]

Martha Craig
Music
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May 27, 2018

Review: Welcome to the Murder House

Indi­an Ink has done it again. Wel­come to the Mur­der House is dark, dead­ly, a lit­tle bit sexy, and some­thing you def­i­nite­ly should read the press release for before you see because it does not pull any punch­es. Our five main char­ac­ters; death-row con­victs who have a par­tic­u­lar pen­chant for the­atre, take us on a […]

Emma Maguire
Theatre
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May 25, 2018

Preview: Kia Mau Festival

The fourth Kia Mau Fes­ti­val is on from 1–16 June 2018. A con­tem­po­rary Indige­nous the­atre and dance expe­ri­ence, the fes­ti­val cel­e­brates Māori, Pasi­fi­ka, First Nations artists and their com­pa­nies. Kia Mau Fes­ti­val is an inno­v­a­tive expe­ri­ence for whā­nau and com­mu­ni­ties through­out the Welling­ton region to engage with Tan­ga­ta When­ua and First Nations artists from across […]

librarykris
Dance / Festival / Museum / Porirua / Theatre
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May 23, 2018

Preview: Welcome to the Murder House

Indi­an Ink The­atre Com­pa­ny present their lat­est show writ­ten by Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis  and com­mis­sioned by Amer­i­can the­atre com­pa­ny South Coast Reper­to­ry The­atre. Wel­come to the Mur­der House is a deli­cious­ly dark tragedy of com­ic pro­por­tions. The dawn­ing of the elec­tric age in 1890’s Amer­i­ca brought about mas­sive tech­no­log­i­cal and social change cre­at­ing […]

librarykris
Theatre / Uncategorised
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May 22, 2018

Review: Romeo and Juliet at Victoria University

Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty’s Romeo and Juli­et is an utter tri­umph of stage­craft. The mood with­in Stu­dio 77, the cam­pus’ main black­box the­atre, seems fit­ting­ly Shake­speare­an as thun­der rolls over­head and rain pours down out­side. We’re all here to see Romeo and Juli­et, arguably one of the­atre’s most played-out sto­ries, but I’ve nev­er seen it quite like this. Our cast, mem­bers […]

Emma Maguire
Theatre
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May 22, 2018

Preview: I am not Margaret Mahy

Witch, jun­gle child, bewil­dered stu­dent, detec­tive, librar­i­an, shark: icon­ic writer Mar­garet Mahy defied the norm at every turn, embody­ing aspects of her char­ac­ters in the many lives she lived. Jane Waddell’s stage adap­ta­tion of Mahy’s essay ‘Notes of a Bag Lady‘ reveals the woman behind the sto­ries: her witchy ways, her bag-lady ten­den­cies and her […]

librarykris
Theatre
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