Theatre

Staging a little festive pandemonium

Starring in the Globe pantomime Cinders are (from left) Edward Matthews, Jen Hughson and Thomas...

Staging a little festive pandemonium

Childhood memories of going to see a pantomime at Christmas has inspired Dunedin’s Globe to tackle the genre for the first time. Rebecca Fox talks to director Lynne Keene and actress Jen Hughson.

Pair making up for lost time

Shaun James Kelly and Marie Varlet never had the experience of dancing in The Nutcracker as children, but they are making up for it now. Rebecca Fox talks to the pair about the traditional...

Performance of a lifetime

Val Caniparoli might think he is a ‘‘glutton for punishment’’ in creating his fourth Nutcracker ballet, but New Zealand audiences are glad he has. Rebecca Fox talks to the American...

Chance to travel the light fantastic

Chance to travel the light fantastic

With their cellphones in flight mode and in reclining chairs, the audience travelled the light fantastic at Anthonie Tonnon's A Synthetic Universe staged in the Otago Museum Guardian Perpetual...

Proverbial pastime by no means boring

Simon O'Connor stars in Watching Paint Dry. Photo: Peter McIntosh

Proverbial pastime by no means boring

My watch says it's 7.13pm. Ten or so minutes ago, when the show began, the overalled performer (who is he: a Zen master, an amateur philosopher, a tradesman with psychotherapeutic ambitions?)...

Something 'Wicked' this way comes

Anna Langford (left) and Hayley Lyndon have been cast as the witches for Musical Theatre Dunedin...

Something 'Wicked' this way comes

If you heard witches cackling with glee yesterday, you may have mistaken it for a Halloween prank. But it wasn't.

Unusual production produces tears

A simple question from a child about the idiom "watching paint dry" has led to an unusual new theatre work. Rebecca Fox talks to its creator and sole actor.

Saying farewell to the Fortune

Former Fortune wardrobe mistress Maryanne Wright-Smyth fits Barry Dorking's costume for his...

Saying farewell to the Fortune

A group of Dunedin theatre practitioners has taken up the challenge of saying farewell to the Fortune Theatre and showing there is still life in the city's theatre industry. Rebecca Fox talks to...

Good fun that is funny

Dr Seuss’ classic children’s tale The Cat in The Hat has been transformed into a travelling stage show. Rebecca Fox talks to The Cat, aka Nick Wilkinson.

Simple story of child’s family experience scores highly

Sara Georgie rehearses as Eloise in Eloise in the Middle in her classroom at St Peter Chanel...

Simple story of child’s family experience scores highly

The story is simple. Eloise, who lives in Dunedin with her mum, Karen, flies to Wellington to see her dad, Dennis, who has another lady living in his house. Things go well, sort of...

Cryptic trips inside dark soundscape

Leah Carrell dances in Dark Matter. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Cryptic trips inside dark soundscape

There was a tiny blue light over to the left of the stage that moved unexpectedly.

Bright and bouncy

The audience will affect the performance.

The bit on the stage is easy: setting up's hard

Wellington comedian Robbie Nicol. PHOTO: CHRISTINE O'CONNOR

The bit on the stage is easy: setting up's hard

The stage bit is easy.

Q&A: Robin Kelly

A Q&A session with Robin Kelly, of Valerie.

It has been five years in the making and faced a few hurdles along the way but Emily Duncan’s play Eloise in the Middle will premier this month. Rebecca Fox talks to Duncan and actress Sara Georgie...

Evolving show born of personal experience

Evolving show born of personal experience

There is a certain tightly focused zeal in actor Rob Mokaraka's delivery as he talks about his show Shot Bro: Confessions of a Depressed Bullet. That is not really a surprise.

Shot Bro a tale of trauma

Actor Rob Mokaraka in Dunedin yesterday. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

Shot Bro a tale of trauma

By the time the show starts, actor Rob Mokaraka has greeted people individually, let everyone know that watching the show isn’t always going to be easy, and assured them that it’s “OK to cry” if things get tough.

How I detest the arts and their constant ability to cause me to actually feel things

I hate the arts. You have to go somewhere, sit still, concentrate, be quiet, writes David Loughrey.

Dance troupe ages with grace and suppleness

Dancers Serena Gallagher and Andrew Shepherd (front) with the Rebound Dance Company, perform at...

Dance troupe ages with grace and suppleness

A Christchurch dance company is proving advancing years shall not stop the movement.

Rebound pushes beyond constraints of convention

In their debut appearance at Arts Festival Dunedin, Christchurch's Rebound Dance Company present the triple bill - choreographed by the company's three co-founders - Born Out Of Curiosity, writes reviewer Penny Neilson.

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