http://www.theatrescenes.co.nz/review-bard-days-night-the-basement/ James Wenley's Theatre Scenes Blog: Reviews, interviews, news and commentary from Auckland's theatre scenes and beyond. Tue, 07 May 2013 22:20:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.theatrescenes.co.nz/review-bard-days-night-the-basement/#comment-50067 Looking Back: 2012 – A Theatrical year in Review « Theatre Scenes: Auckland Theatre Blog (Reviews, interviews and commentary) Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:13:15 +0000 http://www.theatrescenes.co.nz/?p=1895#comment-50067 [...] The Basement did well with touring productions of verbatim theatre The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Aged Perfectly), and the brilliant Manawa (Do the Time), which waits until the end to sucker-punch its audience. Michael Hurst packed The Basement with his existential solo-Shakespeare Bard’s Day Night which packed Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear AND Michael Hurst into one show: We already know that Hurst is one of our best, but just to prove it again, he gives us this performance. It’s his skill that makes this fly, swapping between character, bawdy and pathos with swiftness and ease. There’s something really kiwi too, for our pre-eminent Shakespeare actor, to dress up in tights and perform at The Basement. Hurrah (Shakespeare Nerd’s Dream). [...] [...] The Basement did well with touring productions of verbatim theatre The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Aged Perfectly), and the brilliant Manawa (Do the Time), which waits until the end to sucker-punch its audience. Michael Hurst packed The Basement with his existential solo-Shakespeare Bard’s Day Night which packed Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear AND Michael Hurst into one show: We already know that Hurst is one of our best, but just to prove it again, he gives us this performance. It’s his skill that makes this fly, swapping between character, bawdy and pathos with swiftness and ease. There’s something really kiwi too, for our pre-eminent Shakespeare actor, to dress up in tights and perform at The Basement. Hurrah (Shakespeare Nerd’s Dream). [...]

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