Review Archive
Welcome to the review archive.
Theatre and dance reviews since 2006.
TABOO(BZ)
Wellington
27/02/2023 - 04/03/2023
"Challenging, inspiring, easy to love..
Tutus on Tour 2023
Raumati, Wairarapa, Hamilton, Christchurch
23/02/2023 - 11/03/2023
"This is one of the stronger programmes of recent years...
"Blend of tradition and the avant-garde, with something to offer audiences...
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MANIC IMPRESSIVE
Wellington
26/02/2023 - 09/03/2023
"Surreal, brilliant and highly relatable..
In Bed with Schoenberg
Wellington
25/02/2023 - 17/03/2023
"Darker notes of a contradictory life..
"Universal themes of being misunderstood, underappreciated and displaced resonate amid the comedy..
Sportsball
Christchurch
25/02/2023 - 01/09/2024
"The display and ball work make for an engaging time and admiring exclamations..
An Act of God
Palmerston North
25/02/2023 - 30/03/2023
"Cribbed glibness on a wing and a prayer – more B-musing than A-musing..
MY GRANDFATHER IS A CANOE
Wellington
24/02/2023 - 26/02/2023
"Connecting the waters, the oceans, the heavens in poetry, script, personal opinion and song, we are the wayfarers..
Resisting Extinction
Wellington
22/02/2023 - 26/02/2023
"The feel of rimu needles in my hair; the taste of gorse flowers; the pull of gravity on a slope..
SO, YOU HAVE KIDS? (A High School Reunion)
Wellington
23/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"An hilarious and skilled night of improv!..
LESBIHONEST
Wellington
24/02/2023 - 04/03/2023
"Lives up to its honesty declaration with energy and humour..
U R HERE
Wellington
24/02/2023 - 26/02/2023
"Unique Fringe work offers joy in the stories and worlds they imply..
3 Steps Back
Wellington
23/02/2023 - 17/06/2023
"A deep, beautiful and poetically passionate insight into disability..
"Poetic, powerful, visceral, raw, gutsy and unmissable..
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
Wellington
23/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"Fresh material brings honestly-earned laughter..
SEXY GOLF BOY
Wellington
21/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"Out of this world cocktail of immersive storylines parodying the lifestyles of the rich and famous..
THE FLOATING THEATRE
Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington
01/03/2017 - 25/02/2023
"As a show of two halves, it engages its audiences in very different ways and is well positioned as part…..
"Seriously good, feel-provoking theatre..
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ACCESS
Wellington, Dunedin
22/02/2023 - 25/03/2023
"A work with enormous potential, but …..
"Provokes bubbles of genuine laughter or small in-breaths of empathy..
FLAMENCODANZA
Wellington
22/02/2023 - 26/02/2023
"A dazzling orange shawl flares around her articulate torso like a flickering flame..
CAUTION WET FLOOR
Wellington
21/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"Reality and fantasy, disappointment and joy, desire and hubris foxtrot with each other in this compelling microcosm of the human…..
LIMITS
Wellington
21/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"Proximity of humour and menace is cultivated well..
THE SPINSTER AND THE SLUT
Wellington
21/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"A funny, feminist and fearless show for lovers of poetry, comedy and unconventional literature..
LOVE/LOVE/LOVE/LOVE/LOVE
Wellington
21/02/2023 - 25/02/2023
"Beyond the sexy strut, beyond a flat silhouette captured in a mirror...