9 - 2020 - Theatre Scenes: Aotearoa New Zealand Theatre

REVIEW: 48 Nights on Hope Street (Auckland Theatre Company)

September 17, 2020

[Hope abounds, the theatre is alive] 48 Nights on Hope Street is a triumphant addition to an anthological tradition. Drawing on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, Auckland Theatre Company has brought together the works of five talented young writers, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Leki Jackson-Bourke, Nathan Joe, Ana Scotney, and Cian Elyse White. Set during the Black Death epidemic, the Decameron is a story cycle […]

REVIEW: Black Lover (Auckland Theatre Company)

September 13, 2020

[Unearthing the realities of Anti-Black Racism] Black Lover is a tale about colonial violence during the mid-1960s prelude to Zimbabwe’s fight for independence, sparked by increasing resistance to rule by a White-only minority. Written by Stanley Makuwe, it follows the fever-ridden agitation of Rhodesia’s former colonial leader, Garfield Todd (Cameron Rhodes), who is trapped at home due to a house […]