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 […]