Two strangers (Joseph Wycoff and Max Easey) book a fishing trip under a veteran sailor (Suzy Sampson). Out on the water, the trio’s plans are scuppered by a series of escalating dangers… While waiting for help, they find a young woman (Meg Sara Andrews) floating on the water – another survivor of the sea. Can this weary foursome survive the […]
Two couples, one double-booked Airbnb — it’s a modern-day nightmare that usually spirals into awkward pleasantries or passive-aggressive remarks. But throw Kura Forrester, Chris Parker, Tom Sainsbury, and Brynley Stent into the mix, and you get Camping: a chaotic, hilarious cocktail of absurdity and brilliance. First conceived in the 2016 Comedy Festival as a one-hour Basement Theatre show Camping has […]
[Presented by Tawata Productions] Ngā Rorirori is an energetic and expansive farce, which explores interpersonal relationships and individual attitudes to treatment of whenua; through an impressive emulsion of dance, theatre, and song. The play follows Pillow and Manuela Rorirori, a brother and sister. Manuela is an activist and organisational wiz, while Pillow is a convicted fraudster and smooth talker. They […]
Māori Krishna + AltarNative is an enchanting and educational double-bill of semi-autobiographical solo performance pieces. Despite being insular and episodic, the two constituent pieces are linked by shared themes and subject matter. This connection between pieces is cemented by the audience’s involvement in the pack-away and set-up between shows, and the lack of break in performance between the pieces. The […]
A show about that time at 3 am when you cannot sleep and end up fixating on how you ended up at this stage of your life, Our Own Little Mess is amazing. And incredibly depressing. And funny! And terrifying! Sometimes at the same time! The power of theatre! Maybe it speaks to my own subjectivity but I was completely in sync […]
[Like a Prayer] Grief, masturbation, and the catholic church – the holy trinity of Tatiana Hotere’s Skin Hunger, a one woman show that explores life after the death of a spouse and how grief can make you unexpectedly horny. Returning to Q theatre after a sell-out season earlier this year, the show has been reimagined — transformed from a three […]
Kenangan Wangi (Sweet Reminiscence) Alamak! It’s such a treat to hear authentic Manglish at The Basement Theatre. For the uninitiated, Manglish is the ‘rojak’ (fruit salad) combination of English-Malay-Cantonese-Hokkien-Hindi-Tamil words that typically pepper everyday Malaysian conversations. And How to Throw a Chinese Funeral’s dialogue epitomises this Malaysian vernacular down to its core. The play captures a familiar slice of Malaysian […]
Boom Shankar is a delightfully silly and immensely creative piece, which explores and subverts ideas around love and death. The play follows Shankar Shinde, an overconfident and arrogant bomb defusal expert, and Murray Murray, an overworked but conscientious bureaucrat in heaven. Writers and performers, Bala Murali Shingade and Aman Bajaj, must be commended for creating and embodying such complex and […]
[The Injustice of It All ] Holding court for 100-minutes is a feat in itself for a full cast. However doing so as a solo performer is downright laudable and absolutely deserving of the standing ovation that Acushla-Tara Kupe received on opening night. Writer Suzie Miller is a former lawyer, and it’s heartening to read that despite Prima Facie being initially […]
In the same week Auckland Theatre Company and Basement Theatre confirmed they were closing for the rest of the year, I attended a one night-only performance of Back to Square One? at the Tahi Festival of Solo Performance at Wellington’s BATS Theatre. Back to Square One? is a Covid show, inspired by writer/performer Anders Falstie-Jensen’s conversations with his 95-year-old grandmother […]
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