Review: Professor Wild Returns

  I’ve nev­er seen a show at the zoo before, but that’s where Pro­fess­or Wild Returns takes me for my first review of NZ Fringe 2023. Anoth­er entry in the incred­ible Aus­tin Har­ris­on The­at­ric­al Uni­verse, this solo show resur­rects Har­ris­on’s seg­ment ‘Pro­fess­or Wild’ from What Now in 2009 as a full-length show for adults, set amongst the climbs of […]

Serious Monkey(ish) business at Wellington Zoo

Okay, let’s get the puns out of the way. While it is nev­er inap­pro­pri­ate to spank your mon­key in pub­lic, and only Peter Gab­ri­el can shock the mon­key, at Wel­ling­ton Zoo you can, how­ever, touch some mon­keys. Sort of. Well, the touch­ing part is cor­rect, but tech­nic­ally the Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs aren’t actu­ally prim­ates, they’re a […]

Signs of the time – advertising we like

So many sur­faces in Wel­ling­ton are crammed with posters try­ing to sell us some­thing, so we thought it might be nice to look at some of the advert­ising that actu­ally looks good. This week, our favour­ite piece of advert­ising are these posters from Wel­ling­ton Zoo. These abso­lutely gor­geous anim­als (there’s a red panda in the […]