REVIEW: Poor Boy (Auckland Theatre Company)

March 29, 2011

Oo hoo hoo hoo… [by James Wenley] Poor Boy is a song written by kiwi music royalty Tim Finn and released in 1980 on Split Enz’s True Colours album. The lyrics ‘My love is alien, I picked her up by chance / She speaks to me in ultra-high frequency’ are apparently about a ‘poor boy’ who falls in love with […]

Radio Review! ATC’s Poor Boy

March 21, 2011

My lovely theatre scenes co-reviewer Sharu Delilkan got on National Radio’s Arts on Sunday to review Auckland Theatre Company’s latest offering Poor Boy, featuring music by Tim Finn. Find out what she told Lynn Freeman about the production here. I’ll be seeing the show on Tuesday, so will have a print review for Theatre Scenes post show. I am very curious about […]