Rocky Horror Show – Theatre Scenes: Aotearoa New Zealand Theatre

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Rocky Horror’s Richard O’Brien

January 30, 2011

RICHARD O’BRIEN on wanting to play Eddie, the 1973 Opening Night, growing up a disaffected youth in New Zealand and more…. I have never seen an Auckland audience react in quite the way they responded to Richard O’Brien’s entrance in the recent season of Rocky Horror Show at the Civic. Richard strides on, dazzling in a Gaultier denim coat […]

Looking Back: 2010 – A theatrical year in Review

January 25, 2011

Looking back at all the theatre I saw in 2010, some very palpable images linger in my mind. Jennifer Ward-Lealand in a bed. Jennifer Ludlam on the floor. Robyn Malcom in a mound of dirt. A horse’s arse in a doorway. Edward Newborn eating a banana. Richard O’Brien up a ladder with a crown on his head. Some of course […]