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• • Review: The Importance of Being Earnest

    • 31 Oct 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Circa Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest has marked itself down as a fantastic retelling of my favourite non-New Zealand play, and an excellent night out besides. Staged in a thrust stage in Circa One, Jonathan Price’s directorial hand is evident as a play that is often so caught in (delightful) internal conversations is broadened […]
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• • Review: Dirty Work

    • 5 Aug 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • By Talia Carlisle An ode to joy! For the first time recently I joined a choir, and as we joined together as strangers to sing, holding our music and raising our voices in harmony, I could feel such joy and togetherness lifting everyone up, and connecting us together while also creating a melodic story told […]
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• • Review: Lightscapes

    • 29 Jul 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Imagery by Stephen A’Court. The Royal New Zealand Ballet is back with another series of four ballets to warm you up this winter. Celebrating the power and possibility of dance, these four ballets range from the classic to the experimental, a wonderful tableau that accurately sums up the RZNB’s 70th anniversary. Opening the show is […]
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• • Review: Prima Facie

    • 1 Jul 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • By Nadia Freeman Prima Facie shares an authentic story of a woman’s experience of assault and navigating the judicial system to seek justice. The nearly sell-out season demonstrates that despite the raw and challenging subject, there is a strong calling for stories like this.   Rape is a word people don’t want to say, and for […]
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• • Review: 35mm

    • 24 Jun 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • By Talia Carlisle Everyone is talking about 35mm, and it’s not a measurement, but a movement it seems, from the sound of new fans I’ve talked to. 35mm is a musical written by Ryan Scott Oliver on at Gryphon Theatre until Saturday, which incorporates music, original choreography and a live band led by musical director […]
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• • Review: Female Lady Women Comedians

    • 18 Jun 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Review by Talia Carlisle Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it’s Samantha Hannah leading a super all-female all-funny line-up of comedians that share a striking resemblance… but definitely aren’t all the same person… *wink!* Having been nominated for both Best Comedian, and Best MC at last year’s Wellington Comedy Awards, it makes […]
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    CDs From The Vault – 2005: Part 1…

    • 11 Mar 2023
    • Wellington City Libraries
    • Our music review archives go back 20 years now. In that time various Library Staff members have reviewed a huge… Continue reading CDs From The Vault – 2005: Part 1… →
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• • Review: Homemade Takeaways

    • 23 Nov 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I don’t think anyone will disagree with me that it’s been one hell of a year, and Christmas is descending on us fast.  So it seemed completely appropriate to be watching a show about people who’ve had a hell of a year, too, drawn together at Christmas. Annie and Will have gravitated back to the […]
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• • Review: Pudgy Mediocre White Men Solve Your Problems

    • 21 Oct 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • A whiteboard greets us at the top of the stairs of BATS’ Dome Theatre. 10am – Dancing with Craig (R18). It reads. 1.45pm – Knitting with Craig (R18), then 8pm – Dave & Bryan Impov Thing. And that is what we’re here to see (though I am particularly taken by the concept of 12.45pm – Autopsy for Beginners.) We’re at […]
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• • Review: Macbeth

    • 7 Oct 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I went into Macbeth at the St James completely cold – I know Verdi’s later operas, including his later Shakespeare operas; Otello and Falstaff.  But I’ve somehow missed Macbeth, and decided to keep it that way, I guess because it’s so exciting to go into something completely fresh and new, even if it was written […]
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• • Review: Title & Deed

    • 6 Oct 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Reviewed by Lox Dixon. Presented as a part of TAHI Festival, 2022. I’m going to make an earnest effort to mention the writing as little as possible in this review because that’s not really the point and everyone probably knows by now that Will Eno is a phenomenal writer. That said, the beauty of this […]
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• • Review: Back to Square One?

    • 6 Sep 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • 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
    • The Wellingtonista
    • 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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    Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 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: Popcorn!

    • 10 Jun 2021
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Wellington Reparatory Theatre’s newest offering is Popcorn, Ben Elton’s play.
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• • Review: PSA – Election 2020

    • 26 Aug 2020
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Has it really been a year since I last reviewed an interation of Public Service Announcements? Apparently so.
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    Films Preview

    • 5 Jul 2020
    • City Gallery
    • Assistant Curator Moya Lawson previews three upcoming film screenings.
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    Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • New nosh

    • 7 Oct 2014
    • The Wellingtonista
    • There’s a few new eating places of prominence opened or opening shortly for your (mostly) carnivorous pleasure.
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• • Serious Monkey(ish) business at Wellington Zoo

    • 29 Sep 2014
    • The Wellingtonista
    • 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 kind of pre-primate. Okay, I should have written notes, but I WAS TOUCHING A LEMUR at the very kind invitation of Wellington Zoo to try out their new Lemur Encounter.
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    Wellington Zoological Gardens, Manchester Street, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Review: Whore &, Lashings of whipped cream

    • 25 Sep 2014
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I had high hopes for Whore.
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    Bat's Theatre, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
  
  

• • It’s wonderful

    • 9 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Shaking, spinning, rotating and swaying. The City Gallery’s new Kaleidoscope exhibition of Len Lye’s kinetic sculptures is unmissably exciting. In fact, all four of the Gallery’s new exhibitions are fascinating. They’re also complementary. Which is some consolation for all the visitors to Te Papa who’ve been puzzled by the national museum’s inexplicable and unforgivable decision to close its entire art space for two months.
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• • Review: We have been there (Cloud in hand)

    • 7 Mar 2013
    • The Wellingtonista
    • This is part of Footnote’s Forte series which “has a specific objective to bring New Zealanders who have excelled off shore home to make work here.
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• • Review: [title of show] take two.

    • 5 Mar 2013
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I realise Kris has already given a review of [title of show] but I figure I may as well throw my thoughts into the ring.
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    New WCC Website

    • 20 Feb 2013
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Well blow me down – the Council has a new website. Well done! I was just looking at the old one yesterday, thinking how tawdry it was looking – and today a brand spanking new website has popped up – colourful and more interactive.
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• • Joanna had a lot of (Silere) lamb (at Hummingbird)

    • 30 Nov 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • A couple of weeks ago, I went for dinner at Hummingbird, and as well as eating fish tacos with my girlfriend (oh grow up!), we ordered the Lamb for Two.
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    Blair Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
  
  

• • Review: The mousetrap

    • 19 Nov 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Agatha Christie’s The mousetrap is now in its sixtieth year of continuous production.
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• • ALL of the meat

    • 10 Oct 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The time that carnivorous Wellingtonians have been droolfully anticipating has arrived: Big Bad Wolf has opened in Wakefield St.
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    Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
  
  

• • Preview: The Keepers

    • 18 Sep 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Thread Theatre Company’s physical theatre work The Keepers  starts tomorrow night at BATS Theatre.
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• • Review: Clybourne Park

    • 12 Sep 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • In 1959 a couple sell their house. At 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, their neighbours casually call in to see how packing is going. During the friendly discussion information about the buyers is revealed and tempers flare. In 2009 members of a community meet at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon to discuss neighborhood covenants before the new couple in the community start making alterations. Although their lives seem similar on the surface, their motivations are different, setting up conflict.
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• • I like the St James theatre but not what was on stage

    • 7 Jun 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Last night we – along with a range of other fancy media types were invited by Positively Wellington Venues to have drinks & canapes and watch Rock the Ballet at the Saint James Theatre last night .
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