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• • Review: Krishnan’s Dairy

    • 22 Sep 2022
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    • Review by Talia Carlisle. A wise man once told me that real loves grows, and so does my love of Indian Ink’s now legendary tale of Krishnan’s Dairy that wound up its final season in Wellington this week. The production is a well polished gem in the crown of creative team Jacob Rajan and Justin […]
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    Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Review: Back to Square One?

    • 6 Sep 2022
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    • Reviewed by Shona Jaunas Back to Square One invites you into conversation between 95 year old Inga’s living room in Denmark and her grandson, Anders Falstie-Jensen in New Zealand. It starts with the audience all writing their names on the stage front in chalk which immediately brings us into the space; we are all involved […]
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    Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Review: Skin Tight

    • 30 Aug 2022
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    • Skin Tight is my favourite ever play and I’ve been wanting to see it performed since I first read it. Circa Theatre did not disappoint with their iteration of this show; a gloriously evocative piece with incredible staging, performances and movement. The play is not just a love story to its characters – and the highs […]
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• • Review: RNZB’s Cinderella

    • 3 Aug 2022
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    • RNZB’s Cinderella is a carnival of excess, packed full of joy and beauty and delight. It shines with queerness, and as a queer dancer myself, this ballet was a revolutionary take on a well-hewn story and hit me right in the chest. Cinderella (Mayu Tanigaito) is the same woman we all know, stuck in a […]
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• • Review: Shift Your Paradigm

    • 29 Jul 2022
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    • Shift Your Paradigm Reviewed by Lox Dixon Shift Your Paradigm (No Chairs Required) begins by welcoming us into the Dome space at BATS Theatre, for a chair seminar. The stage is sparse. Two cheap desks are set up, one to either side of stage, and an object (presumably a chair) covered by a sheet, sits […]
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• • Review: Dying Swanologues

    • 16 Jul 2022
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    • Tutus and trauma: a delicious slice By Talia Carlisle It’s never too late to join the ballet bandwagon, unless that wagon is the Tempest season of Dying Swanologues at BATS Theatre, in which case you have sorely missed out. The short and sweet season from July 5-9 was made shorter with two last minute cancellations […]
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• • Sex Workers of Aotearoa; A Day in the Life of exhibition

    • 29 May 2022
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    • Back for the fourth year in a row – Sex Workers of Aotearoa; A Day in the Life of – is an annual art exhibition in which all art has been created by current or past sex workers. The artwork is for sale, showcasing various mediums; photography, ink, paint, mixed media, cross-stitch, sculpture, poetry and more. The […]
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• • Review: Trifles

    • 5 Feb 2022
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    • Reviewed by Shauwn Keil. Upon entering the theatre, we are treated to a magnificent set, designed by Jasmine Bryham. Everything that reminds you of Nana and Poppa’s house is present. Jars of God knows what across the kitchen bench. A kettle and cool mugs. Dinner set items. A paua shell ashtray on a shelf on […]
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• • Review: Soho Cinders

    • 31 Jan 2022
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    • Reviewed by Talia Carlisle The set of Soho Cinders is a simple train station in London, but the story, design and performances are far from simple. A saucy queer rewrite of Cinderella, Soho Cinders tells us the story of Robbie (Chris McMillan), who’s caught between sugar daddy Lord Bellingham (Stanford Reynolds) and London Mayoral Candidate James Prince (Michael Stebbings). […]
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• • Review: Illegally Blind

    • 7 Dec 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Now, I’m literally in this show so I figured probably not the best for me to review it. This week we’ve got the lovely Cordy Black writing some kind words! The experience starts in the foyer, after a ritual of scanning and phone-waving – the default programme for Illegally Blind is presented to the visitor […]
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    BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Review: Hole

    • 21 Nov 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I’ve been on a reviewing spree this week, so I passed this one onto our lovely guest reviewer, who took up the mantle very well for his first time reviewing. Check out his piece below! – Hole is unbelievably charming. The play itself is cleverly written, utilizing the charm of the characters to get important […]
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• • Review: The Little Mermaid

    • 21 Nov 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Somehow it’s nearly Christmas again, and that means Circa Theatre’s annual pantomime is back! I’ve been going every year since I moved to Wellington, and I’ve gotta say, it’s still a fantastic and very ridiculous experience. This time around, it’s The Little Mermaid, written once again by Circa stalwarts Simon Leary and Gavin Rutherford. It’s 3021 […]
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• • Review: Poprox Improv

    • 18 Nov 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    •   Poprox Improv is the brainchild of a bunch of Wellington theatre stalwarts: Pippa Drakeford-Croad, Dylan Hutton, Austin Harrison, Nina Hogg, Jonny Paul & Nino Raphael, and it is a show absolutely worthy of their talent. Performed for the first time this night at Miramar’s gorgeous new performance venue – Roxy Live (a glorious new space […]
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    Roxy Cinema, 5, Park Road, Miramar, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The Weight of a Thousand Oceans – review & giveaway

    • 8 Nov 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Wellington writers increasingly (and entirely justifiably) are viewing the ongoing climate disaster as a rich source of material for creating intriguing, imaginative speculative fiction. Based in future worlds where humanity has failed to stop a catastrophic, civilization-altering change in the climate system, these stories of what might be, if we don’t sort our shit out, […]
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• • Review: Medea

    • 7 Oct 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The Victoria University Ancient Theatre Society’s adaptation of Medea is an unique combination of both the Euripides and the Seneca play – and I must say, I like where it goes. It’s a fresh take on two classical scripts, and they meld together well, adapted by VATS’ Rebecca Drummond and Rebecca Scholtz. The show itself is powerful, focused significantly on Medea’s rise to power as she ruins her unfaithful husband. It’s a tale of murder and witchcraft and bloodshed, and the zingy script works in its favour.
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• • Review: Best on Tap’s Community Noticeboard

    • 15 Sep 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • This is the only theatre show currently running in Wellington, we’re told, as Community Noticeboard begins. It’s a little surreal to be back in a theatre – I’ve personally not been in one since like… June? – and it is especially surreal to be wearing masks and spaced out across a traverse in BATS Theatre’s Dome stage. […]
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• • Things are getting surreal at Te Papa

    • 22 Jun 2021
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    • We might be stuck in New Zealand for a while, but that doesn’t mean the world can’t come to us (especially if they’re rich, apparently). That’s the cool thing about the new exhibition Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen He Toi Pohewa: He Toi Marupō o Muhiama o Boijmans Van Beuningen. You’ll get a slice of Europe last century and get to get out of the wind of Wellington all at the same time.
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• • World Refugee Day exhibition – 20th June @ The HUB

    • 16 Jun 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • This year’s United Nations World Refugee Day is on 20 June, and to mark the event the ChangeMakers Resettlement Forum,  Voice of Aroha, and Living Wage Movement Aotearoa NZ are hosting the My Life … to Live photo exhibition at the Hub (Victoria University).
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• • Kia Mau festival another show

    • 16 Jun 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Honestly I thought they were done but the team at Kia Mau have one more show for us on Saturday June 19.
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• • Kia Mau Festival week two

    • 14 Jun 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • What a joyful privilege to experience week one of the Kia Mau Festival.
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• • Kia Mau festival!

    • 8 Jun 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The Kia Mau Festival started last week and is already racing along.
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• • Review: Paradise (Or the Impertinence of Ice Cream)

    • 23 May 2021
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    • A man.
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• • Review: The Saboteur

    • 20 May 2021
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    • It’s improv.
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• • Giselle by the Royal New Zealand Ballet

    • 18 May 2021
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    • Giselle by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, May 2021.
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• • Review: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

    • 2 Apr 2021
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    • There’s something so delightful about going into a theatre show completely blind.
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• • Review: The Look Of Love

    • 25 Jan 2021
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    • I’ve seen Ali Harper before, at Old St Paul’s in 2012, and I was struck by her humour and professionalism then.
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• • A couple of new(ish) bars

    • 19 Jan 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Hey, remember when we used to be on top of all the openings and closings in town and filled with reviews? Yeah me neither.
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• • Family-owned Naumi Hotels open Naumi Studio Hotel on Cuba Street

    • 3 Dec 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • There’s been a hotel on Cuba Street for as long as I can remember.
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• • Preview: The Slutcracker

    • 18 Nov 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • image credit Jason Aldous From School For Gifted Children, and the creator of Change Your Own Life comes a new queer ballet for Christmas.
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• • Preview: Ubu sux

    • 12 Nov 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • It’s citizen versus everything in this totally original, entirely reimagined adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s classic avant-garde satire Ubu Rex.
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