REVIEW: Access (Auckland Fringe)

September 9, 2022

[Experiment in Empathy]  Access is an interactive, durational art performance presented by Hamish Annan.  Created in collaboration with Katie Burson and Rob Byrne the piece invites the audience to both witness and experience an array of emotions.   The piece is formed from a few simple elements: two chairs are set facing each other from opposite ends of a rectangle marked […]

REVIEW: RAW! ASMR (Auckland Fringe)

September 1, 2022

[Gonzo! The musical] Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) refers to specific audio-visual stimuli which cause an individual to experience a tingling sensation around the head and the back of the head.  Outside of youtube recommendations and advertisements, I have almost no experience with ASMR. That ignorance was hammered home about 0.5 seconds into the show when creator/performer Amy Atkins asked […]

REVIEW: Grief-Sex-Race (Auckland Fringe)

August 31, 2022

[Laughing Through It] Grief, sex and race are not only three distinct words that sum up the themes and talking points of this comedy-musical, but the show also amalgamates them together to describe a unique experience and state of mind: the grief-sex-race. Creators and performers Jess Karamjeet and Sophie Gibson share fragments of their lives with us, centred around their […]