REVIEW: WORM (Basement Theatre)

October 16, 2019

[The worm’s audience turns] The stage is bare aside from bundles of beige cloth. When the show begins, the most human-shaped of the bundles begins to move. This is Worm (Phoebe Hurst), the latest denizen to occupy the Basement’s Studio. If there was ever a Mount Rushmore for the various entities that have slithered and crawled across its boards, Worm […]

REVIEW: Big Mouths [AKA, Come to our show or we’ll punch you]

October 10, 2012

Big Ups [by Matt Baker] Developing third year solo pieces is becoming an increasingly viable option for recent drama school graduates. Such is the case with Toi Whakaari grads Phoebe Hurst and Emma Fenton’s double bill show Big Mouths, but where others have stretched their content into an hour-long full-length production or a feature film script, Hurst and Fenton have kept […]