Review: Owls Do Cry

Owls Do Cry is not your typ­ic­al the­at­ric­al retell­ing of a book. Instead, it is a com­plete rein­ter­pret­a­tion of the work through move­ment, design and song.   The show starts very light-hearted with a chor­us of singing, move­ment and audi­ence inter­ac­tion. As the show con­tin­ues, how­ever, it draws you into the real pain and fra­gil­ity of […]

Something wonderful at The Dowse

Emma from Emma Makes kindly vis­ited and revis­ited  – Wun­der­rūma: New Zea­l­and Jew­ellery  exhib­i­tion at The Dowse  for us. Each time I return to Wun­der­rūma: New Zea­l­and Jew­ellery I find some­thing new I want to own. It began at the open­ing with Emily Valentine’s King­fish­er Brooch (2013). “Is that a bird?” said the friend I was […]