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Howard Davis
Scoop Arts Editor
Educated at Cambridge and UCLA; worked on several major Hollywood feature films and as a Kundalini Yoga instructor in Los Angeles; currently enjoying life in Wellington.
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Mourning Becomes Electra And The Tragedy Of Trump’s Enablers
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 8:09 pm | Howard Davis
It’s hardly surprising that apex predators like Epstein, Murdoch, and Trump manage to recruit amoral females half their age to do their dirty work for them. More >>
Michael Gould Celebrates ‘Perverse Verse’
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 8:00 pm | Howard Davis
An award-winning Canadian writer, Gould has waited for five decades after the publication of his first book to release his second. More >>
It’s All In The Casting - Circa Presents '2:22 A Ghost Story'
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 3:20 pm | Howard Davis
Showing more resilience than you need to get a refund for over-priced products from Mount Kiwi, Danny Robins’ haunted-house drama has spawned six West End productions, a variety of casts, and multiple theatre awards since it first opened in London in ... More >>
South by South
Friday, 19 September 2025, 7:39 pm | howard davis
Leavening Kinsey’s letters with accounts from The Lyttelton Times and other contemporary newspapers, South by South provides an invaluable and involving glimpse into the doomed world of Edwardian culture and values, when praising the King and fearing More >>
Ration The Queen’s Veges Revives Agitprop Theatre
Tuesday, 19 August 2025, 3:07 pm | Howard Davis
Co-writer and director Tainui Tukiwaho says the piece is intended to address ”the way history is told, the way it is remembered, and the way it is conveniently forgotten. More >>
Dick Frizzell’s Hastings & Studio International Revisited In Wellington
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 1:18 pm | howard davis
Dick Frizzell’s work is characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles, ranging from faux-naive New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters, and witty parodies More >>
The Amici Ensemble Provide A Master Class In Françaix, Fauré, & Brahms
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 8:08 am | howard davis
This year the Ensemble includes Monique Lapins, Second Violinist of the NZ String Quartet and a Lecturer at Victoria University’s School of Music. She tours with the Ghost Piano Trio, performs regularly with leading orchestras and her delightful More >>
NZSQ Inaugurates Wellington Chamber Music’s New Season
Monday, 28 April 2025, 7:53 am | Howard Davis
The freshly reconstituted New Zealand String Quartet inaugurated Wellington Chamber Music’s 2025 season at St Andrew’s On The Terrace with an intriguing programme. More >>
An Inconvenient Truth Revisited
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 1:42 pm | Howard Davis
We'll become increasingly plasticised, with no further need for FitBits, laptops, or cell phones, as we’ll all have neurochips implanted in our brains that literarily ‘hook’ us up to the virtual reality of the Metaverse of AI, thanks to the ‘genius’ ... More >>
Circa Theatre Needlessly Reimagines Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 5:10 am | Howard Davis
Coward can hardly be classified as a “serious” playwright and Circa’s latest production is certainly a light, amusing, and frothy affair, but like a mistimed soufflé it eventually falls rather flat. More >>
Prima Facie At Wellington’s Circa Theatre
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:57 am | Howard Davis
With original music provided by Briar Prastiti (composer in residence at Lilburn House) and a minimalist set and costume design by Ian Harman, this stunning Circa production is expertly directed by Lyndee-Jane Rutherford. More >>
The Body Politic
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:35 am | Howard Davis
An amusing, well-constructed, bare-bones production that leaves all kinds of interesting questions floating like political jetsam in its wake. More >>
'We Were Dangerous' Punches Well Above Its Weight
Sunday, 25 August 2024, 2:24 pm | Howard Davis
This insightful and solicitous movie makes clear many organised religious institutions and other delusional cults that offer only a punitive pathway to salvation still have a lot of issues for which they must atone. More >>
Guru Of Chai Simmers With Toothsome Tastes Of India
Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 6:50 pm | howard davis
Working together with Indian Ink co-director Justin Lewis, Rajan first produced the play in 2008. Since then, theirs has become one of Aotearoa’s most successful theatre companies. More >>
Kinds Of Kindness
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 8:18 am | Howard Davis
A similar obsession with emotional and psychological manipulation loosely connects the three episodes of Kinds of Kindness and much of its emotional aridity derives from closely observing an indifferent and decidedly off-kilter universe imbued with ... More >>
‘Yearning For A Spoon’ - The Late Poems Of JH Prynne
Monday, 1 July 2024, 11:40 am | Howard Davis
“Packed with a kind of fertile obscurity.” - JH Prynne, Lectures on Maximus IV, V, VI . “Here is something I can study all my life, and never understand.” - Samuel Beckett, Molloy. Rarely do creative artists become more productive ... More >>
Stunning Candle-Lit 'Othello' In London
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 1:32 pm | howard davis
A recent production of Othello at The Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse provided a stunning example of why English stage directors and actors remain the leading exponents of the art and craft of live drama. More >>
Malicious Melodrama - Todd Haynes’ ‘May December’
Sunday, 18 February 2024, 7:30 pm | howard davis
Loosely based on a tabloid headline, Todd Haynes has directed another intriguing and mysterious portrayal of an enigmatic and contradictory female who was jailed as a sex offender for her underage affair with a young high school student more than ... More >>
The Austerity Of Quiet Despair - Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’
Monday, 12 February 2024, 8:22 am | howard davis
Given his obvious admiration for the films of Yasujirō Ozu, it’s hardly surprising that Wim Wenders should have chosen Tokyo as the location for his latest film. A stripped-back, pared-down homage to the great Japanese director’s laconic and laid-back ... More >>
The Irreverence Of ‘Being Earnest’ At Circa Theatre
Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 11:07 am | Howard Davis
“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?” Jonathan Price’s idiosyncratic version of Oscar Wilde's timeless masterpiece 'The ... More >>
