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11 March 2010
Arts
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Music
Lucky 13
13 Most Beautiful, Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Town Hall, reviewed…
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Theatre
Like an onion
The Letter Writer, Circa Theatre, reviewed by Lynn Freeman. A world…
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Other
What a bargain
New Zealand International Arts Festival. Sutra, St James Theatre, March 3rd,…
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Film
Just as good in 2D
At the movies with Robyn Gallagher TIM Burton’s Alice in Wonderland…
This Week
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Columns
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Sport Talk
On sportsmanship
10 March 2010
I saw the most bizarre penalty incident on the BBC website last weekend. …
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Wine Press
Happy Santa
10 March 2010
PINOT hits the capital once more on St Patrick’s Day when 20 producers from…
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According to Doyle
Your absolute breast
3 March 2010
I don’t want to be labelled a knocker. But I want to deal with one or two…
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Sport Talk
Drooling dictators who refuse to die
3 March 2010
WE were awarded the Rugby World Cup in November 2005. Last week, Auckland…
Arts
Stories
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Break the farce
THE Walworth Farce looks creepy. A father makes his two sons put on moustaches, wigs and ill fitting suits and do a farce. Since they were kids they have done this every day all the while cooped up in a rundown council flat in London. “That to me is a strange… Continue
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Season of concerts
THE St Andrew’s Season of Concerts will bring interesting performers to Wellington. Building on a long history of lunchtime concerts at St Andrew’s on The Terrace, the organisers hope to recreate the buzz and camaraderie of previous festivals. The NZ International… Continue
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There’s a hole in my bucket
DUNCAN Sargent admits the sculpture he’s entered in this year’s shapeshifter exhibition at TheNewDowse was a “bit of a science experiment”. The Newtown-based furniture maker decided to use green wood – wood that has been recently cut and not treated – to create… Continue
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Festival fanatic
HOT old guy Geoff Dyer has more going for him than fine boyish features, a smooth speaking voice and a gentleman’s manner. He can write. Imagining 53 year old Dyer in a hallway hunched over the receiver trying to hear each question (the house he takes the call… Continue
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The Fringe Cut
ONE was a secret Spice Girl’s fan, and the other fell in love. Both are stoked to be named Downstage Theatre’s Pick of the Fringe. Fringe festival productions Wannabe and Back/Words will be reworked for the big stage, and enjoy a one-and-a-half week season at… Continue
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Naked and free
Guests buzzed around the National Portrait Gallery looking at the 93 portraits in wonder. Who was the winner of the career-changing 2010 Adam Art Award? Capital Times speaks to the lady behind the prize. WHEN artist Harriet Bright heard she’d won the prestigious… Continue
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Horsey handstands
IT’S hard enough executing a neat handstand or cartwheel on terra firma let alone on horseback. The Kapiti Equestrian and Vaulting Club will demonstrate the art of performing tricks on trotting or cantering horses at Waitangi Park this weekend, and the club’s… Continue
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A Te Papa mystery
LAST Friday a student artist infiltrated Te Papa Museum. A small blue painting was first placed next to the Peter Trevelyan mirrored work outside Te Papa, and then underneath a Judy Millar artwork in a fifth floor exhibition. The work featured the words: “I Believe… Continue
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Miss you, bro
MIKE Eager promised his poet friend Simon Williamson that he’d turn a selection of his poems into a book one day. The result is Twenty-five Cars. Sadly, Williamson killed himself in 1999 after a battle with mental illness, and didn’t get to see the book. But… Continue
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Write a letter
I have a large TV-sized box filled with letters that friends wrote me while I was at school, stored in the roof of my parents’ house. I can’t bring myself to throw them away. Playwright, producer and director Juliet O’Brien loves letters too. She can’t remember… Continue
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Empty talent
As MTYLAND unfolded, I watched happiness, sorrow, regret, despair and pure madness. I was left feeling empty, but strangely ready to be full again. I couldn’t believe it had been an hour. CLAIRE O’Neil cried after watching a rehearsal of her own dance production.… Continue
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Keep Wright
Homegrown ticketholders get ready to trek: this year the Dub and Rock stages are a 15 minute walk apart. “IT’S a bit of a pain,” says Homegrown’s Kelly Wright referring to the new layout of the music festival on Wellington’s waterfront. “It was so… Continue
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Deliciously Irish
IT’S a common misconception that The Seven Irish Tenors are a group of fat opera singers, says one of the tenors Simon Robinson. “The truth is we are in good shape and have a good head of hair,” laughs Robinson. “When people hear ‘tenor’ they think of Pavarotti.… Continue
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The Don with dreadlocks?
One Love organisers hope to broaden the music festival’s reggae-focussed appeal by adding Kiwi singer songwriter Don McGlashan to the bill. WHEN Don McGlashan heard he was to headline Radio Active’s One Love music festival he was sure there had been a mistake.… Continue
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What a Tripp
ACADEMY AWARD nominee Taika “I think I’m hilarious” Cohen stole the show as the “last minute” MC for the Chapman Tripp Theatre awards on Sunday. His endearing forgetfulness had the audience cracking up at the St James Theatre as he repeatedly neglected to read… Continue
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Meek creation
COLLAPSING Creation, written by Arthur Meek, has received the most Chapman Tripp theatre award nominations for 2009. His play about Charles Darwin has been nominated in nine categories, including Best Production. “I honestly think I deserve it,” says Meek. “Downstage… Continue
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The missing score
The CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra says a proposed orchestral scoring studio will provide what’s missing in New Zealand – a facility to record music for films. “It’s the missing link for the post-production of the film recording industry,” says… Continue
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Digging the NZ Arts Festival
IT’S a love story about a man and a digger. Transports Exceptionnels is one of the performances to look forward to at the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival, and it will be played out at Waitangi Park from February 26. “It’s a romance between a dancer… Continue
Reviews
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What a bargain
New Zealand International Arts Festival. Sutra, St James Theatre, March 3rd, and Echoa, Soundings Theatre, March 7, reviewed by Deirdre Tarrant. A great idea having all the dance programmes in one place with the Festival dance works all bound together –… Continue
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Byrd song
The Tudor Consort, Sacred Heart Cathedral, reviewed by Garth Wilshere IN this first concert of the choral year, The Tudor Concert made glorious sound from just 10 voices. The clarity of vocal line was impressive as they sang a selection of motets from 16th… Continue
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Bloody good
AC/DC, Shihad, The Checks, Westpac Stadium, reviewed by Dawn Tratt “IS there blood on my face?” a guy asked my mate before AC/DC started playing. Not only was there a circle of blood seeping from his cheek, but the wound was surrounded by little teeth marks.… Continue
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90 minutes with the ex
Ninety, directed by Susan Wilson, Circa Two, reviewed by Lynn Freeman THE death of a child is every parent’s nightmare and that makes it potentially powerful theatre. It’s well covered territory, including Carl Nixon’s The Raft which was seen in Wellington… Continue
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Camp times
Campus A Low Hum, Flock House, Bulls, reviewed by Dawn Tratt BLINK is a genius. The Wellington-based events manager, photographer and editor, born Ian Jorgensen and now known by everyone as Blink, has helped put Wellington on the map by pioneering a unique… Continue
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Can you Handel?
Handel’s Messiah, conducted by Guy Jansen, Sacred Heart Cathedral, reviewed by Garth Wilshere THIS year’s Messiah in Wellington was an imported presentation from the Kapiti Chamber Choir. This performance was augmented by former members and friends of Bel… Continue
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Too much
Gas, directed by Conrad Newport, Bats Theatre, reviewed by Lynn Freeman THIS is a case of too many characters and too many themes crammed into too short a time. The programme lists the themes: sect-based religion, immigration, solo-parenting, sexual identity… Continue
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St James turns cabaret
Jane Keller, with Carey MacDonald on piano, Cabaret St James Theatre, reviewed by Garth Wilshere IT was enterprising of the St James Theatre to turn their upstairs gallery space into an intimate cabaret venue for four nights. With seating, candle-lit tables,… Continue
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Loud music
Dick Whittington and His Cat, directed by Susan Wilson, Circa Theatre, reviewed by Lynn Freeman ROGER Hall, panto, Circa. A winning end of year combination for the past few years and with big houses. It is again. Dick Whittington is a much less known story… Continue
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Brilliant death
Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants, directed by Leo Gene Peters, Bats Theatre, reviewed by Lynn Freeman THIS second of Bat’s commissioned STAB productions has had maximum hype, with masses of pre-show marketing – on radio, in print, on Twitter, on the streets,… Continue
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