Preview: The Purple Onion

The Purple Onion  peeps into the world of Wellington’s infam­ous bur­lesque par­lour as part of the Kia Mau Fest­iv­al. Estab­lished in the mid 1960s, the Purple Onion was Wellington’s premiere strip club which attrac­ted some of New Zealand’s social elite as well as its fair share of dubi­ous char­ac­ters. Com­bin­ing text, dance and a live funk […]

Preview: Riverside Kings

River­side Kings opens in Upper Hutt today and plays in BATS Theatre next week as part of the Kia Mau Fest­iv­al. The cre­at­ors Sar­ita So and Natano Keni, describe it as “a phys­ic­al weav­ing of broth­er­hood, nos­tal­gia and change.” Their new com­pany, I Ken So Pro­duc­tions, aims to cre­ate, diverse works of a high qual­ity.  They […]