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 […]