Alex Jordan – Theatre Scenes: Aotearoa New Zealand Theatre

REVIEW: This is our Youth (The Basement)

April 9, 2015

Escape from New York [by Tim George] Directed by Benjamin Henson, this new revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s pressure cooker of disaffected youth in Reagan-era New York is by turns claustrophobic, bleak, and nihilistic. It is also blackly comic and surprisingly profound. A young man steals $15000 from his father and holes up with his only friend, who also happens to be […]

REVIEW: Luncheon (I’d like to thank productions)

May 21, 2014

And the Oscar goes to… [by James Wenley] For a play that deals with the fickleness of fame, the most telling feature that of the five actresses gathered for luncheon to mark their nominations in the 1958 best supporting actress race, none of the them are well-known today. Certainly, reading the characters names down the program, none of them were […]