Review: At the end of my hands

Six per­form­ers from inte­grat­ed com­pa­ny Equal Voic­es Arts, dressed sim­ply in grey, black, and white, enact sto­ries explor­ing Deaf cul­ture for Deaf and hear­ing audi­ences. Sto­ries such as flir­ta­tions at the swim­ming pool and get­ting bust­ed for speed­ing (hilar­i­ous!) are con­trast­ed with more touch­ing sto­ries. The per­form­ers Kylie Willis, Alex Lodge, Mihai­lo Lad­je­vac, Shaun Fahey, […]

Review: Spring Awakening

Sev­en chil­dren are pushed into a world where they fum­ble their way towards adult­hood. Moritz and Thea are wor­ried about their aca­d­e­m­ic records. Wend­la wants to know where babies come from. Martha’s not sure if her home­life is nor­mal. Mel­chior has a lot of ques­tions. Hän­schen is try­ing to keep his head down. Ilse just […]

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 […]

Webstock 2016: Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the sixth year not quite in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. You know the deal with this by now — it’s not an offi­cial Web­stock event but they like us, and it IS an offi­cial […]

Reviews of two Christmas themed shows in Wellington

This head­ing is not total­ly accu­rate as one of the shows con­sists of four dif­fer­ent shows. You only need to buy one tick­et to see the four shows, so for two tick­ets you can see five shows. Con­fused? Wel­come to the reviews for Stages of Cheer  and A Christ­mas Karel Čapek at BATS The­atre! (Bring […]

Wellington Theatre Awards 2015

The Welling­ton The­atre Awards were held at Cir­ca The­atre on Sun­day night.  There were 191 shows in Welling­ton dur­ing 2015 – so much for this being a dying city. Host­ed by James Nokise (angling to rename the awards the ‘Nokise’s’), with musi­cal num­bers by Car­rie Green and Jack Buchanan it was an evening cel­e­brat­ing cre­ativ­i­ty, […]

Review: The last five years

Cathy is an actress. Jamie is a writer. Both of them are at the begin­ning of their careers when they meet. Five years lat­er after suc­cess for both of them they are break­ing up. Their indi­vid­ual sto­ries are told from dif­fer­ent point of the rela­tion­ship. Cathy’s sto­ry starts at the end of the rela­tion­ship and […]

You’re Go(at)ing Straight To HELL

Goat isn’t a com­mon menu option here in New Zealand, per­haps some­times in cur­ry and almost cer­tain­ly nev­er before seen atop bread sur­round­ed by crum­bled tor­tillas and lime wedges. But that is now what you can find at HELL Piz­za. The good peo­ple at La Boca Loca, the ones that are a Con­scious Con­sumers Busi­ness […]

Their wings have not been clipped…

Last week I encour­aged Welling­to­ni­ans to get out and sup­port the Phoenix as we attempt to #SaveTheNix Plen­ty of peo­ple turned up to the sta­di­um to sup­port the team, 13,654 in fact! That’s over dou­ble what the Phoenix have had at their last few home games! So: THANK YOU! It was a fan­tas­tic evening of foot­ball […]

Review: All our sons

World War I needs more men to fight and Maori from Mataira Moun­tain are being asked to go. Grand­ma Mataira is vehe­ment­ly against their going. Her son Waru believes fight­ing along­side Pake­ha will bring Maori equal rights in New Zealand. With his son Tai and Tai’s best Pake­ha friend Alec Camp­bell, he vol­un­teers. Their expe­ri­ence […]