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Back where it all began
Peter Hayden has unfinished business with Roger Hall’s plays. So the Dunedin actor is staging End of Summertime in Dunedin, he tells Rebecca Fox.
Theatre
Building may soon get new lease of life
Building may soon get new lease of life
Eight years after a professional theatre company closed and vacated a prominent Dunedin heritage building, the city council might put the property on the market.
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Is this a lightsaber which I see before me?
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Is this a lightsaber which I see before me?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, three Sith lords descend on Macbeth on a Dunedin Shakespeare festival’s main stage.
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Audience helps refine ‘slightly raw draft’
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Audience helps refine ‘slightly raw draft’
Playwright Carl Bland is putting his "words" where his mouth is by performing his own work in a theatrical reading of theatre company Nightsong’s latest work-in-development, Burning House.
Send-up of a favourite guilty pleasure
Send-up of a favourite guilty pleasure
CoroNew Athenaeum TheatreFriday, March 20
Rockumentary singalong packs theatre
Rockumentary singalong packs theatre
27 ClubRegent TheatreSaturday, March 21
Story from someone who’s been there
Story from someone who’s been there
After Elsa Couvreur made her video of The Sensemaker temporarily available online, a clip from the show started to turn up in some of the less savoury corners of the internet.
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Circus show inspired by ADHD diagnosis
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Circus show inspired by ADHD diagnosis
If it was not for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Nicole Maisey would not be an award-winning aerial acrobat, swinging from the roof by her hair.
Feeling ambition not met
Feeling ambition not met
Pas de TroisAllen Hall TheatreThursday, March 19Set in 1860s Paris, Pas de Trois depicts three ballerinas — Aurelie, Sylvie and Colette — at loggerheads over who will be selected as their...
Horror that’s all too familiar
Horror that’s all too familiar
CasketcaseGlobe TheatreWednesday, March 18The Globe Theatre was packed for Casketcase; A Podcast Style Horror, written, produced and directed by Chelsea McRae with Mario Sadra-De Jong ...
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Meeting of creative minds
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Meeting of creative minds
Finding herself a little bored with traditional theatre practice, Australian actress Megan Dury began searching for something else.
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Hope horror play will empower
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Hope horror play will empower
A Dunedin artist is taking her honours dissertation to the stage with a feminist horror play she hopes will empower people to speak up about violence and abuse towards women.
Surprising hilarity of volcanology, insects
Surprising hilarity of volcanology, insects
A good sized crowd at the New Athenaeum Theatre listened to softly spoken comedian Ben Miller with quiet amusement.
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Tabletop adventuring takes to the stage
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Tabletop adventuring takes to the stage
A group of Dunedin actors are taking their Dungeons & Dragons games to the next level with a series of live events financially backed by the city council.
Engaging and entertaining
Engaging and entertaining
Christopher Sainton-Clark transforms himself into a myriad of compelling characters.
White-masked nightmare
White-masked nightmare
A near-capacity audience became engrossed by Dunedin Fringe event We Remember Wrong at the Short St Studio.
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Audience will be included in whodunnit
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Audience will be included in whodunnit
An immersive murder mystery show at a historic Dunedin home will see one audience member framed for the shocking crime.
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‘Heavy subject’ needed to be touched upon
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‘Heavy subject’ needed to be touched upon
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Correcting an image problem
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Correcting an image problem
An innocent post of her show to entertain people during Covid took a nefarious turn for Swiss actress Elsa Couvreur that has taken years to recover from.
Unlocking our identity
Unlocking our identity
It’s hard to be sure of anything these days, the author of a Dunedin Fringe Festival play tells Tom McKinlay.