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Writers and Readers Week: Ronald Wright
Monday, 13 March 2006, 2:54 pm | Lyndon Hood
Ronald Wright is an award-winning Canadian novelist, historian and essayist. He described his recent book A Short Historty of Progress as "a police profile of a repeat offender by the name of Homo Sapiens ". It documents human civilisations' habit of destroying ... More >>
Writers and Readers Week: Aleksander Hemon
Monday, 13 March 2006, 2:53 pm | Lyndon Hood
Author Aleksander Hemon set out to master English after war in his home Sarajevo left him stranded in the United States. His short stories and his novel The Nowhere Man have received great acclaim worldwide. More >>
Arts Festival Review: The Dragons' Trilogy
Sunday, 12 March 2006, 4:01 pm | Lyndon Hood
The production is presented in traverse staging - two blocks of audience seating face each other across a rectangle of gravel - a parking lot complete with a warden's hut and a streetlight. Skillful lighting and a few everyday objects allow the space ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: The Holy Sinner
Sunday, 12 March 2006, 12:46 am | Lyndon Hood
The Holy Sinner is spectacular. It is theatre produced on a scale at or beyond that usually associated with opera or musicals. Inside Out's Marie Adams and Mike Mizrahi have spent the last decade making large-scale public and corporate performance and ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Page 8
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 3:56 pm | Lyndon Hood
In Page 8 , David Page, the eighth of twelve page children, tells the stories of his own youth. About growing up as an Aborigine in Australia, his brief stardom as a child singing star (until his voice broke), working a shop-window dresser and as ... More >>
Arts Fest: The Dragons' Trilogy's Tony Guilfoyle
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 1:01 pm | Lyndon Hood
Tony Guilfoyle will be performing in Robert Lepage's production The Dragon's Trilogy at the New Zealand International Arts Festival. He spoke to Scoop about the experience of reworking and performing in The Dragons' Trilogy , his work on Father Ted and ... More >>
Scoop Images: Len Lye's Water Whirler
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 4:39 pm | Lyndon Hood
The Wellington waterfront has new sculpture. Water Whirler , realised from drawings and descriptions by Len Lye, is now operating on a specially-constructed pier by Frank Kitts Park. More >>
Arts Fest Preview: The Holy Sinner's Mike Mizrahi
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 3:35 pm | Lyndon Hood
This NZ International Arts Festival sees a revival of the acclaimed New Zealand production The Holy Sinner - also a return to theatre for Marie Adams and Mike Mizrahi's Inside Out Productions after more than a decade creating large-scale commercial and public ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Aarero Stone
Sunday, 5 March 2006, 7:43 pm | Lyndon Hood
Aarero Stone - as its full title suggests, puts two very different performers in an intriguing space. The first is Carol Brown, an expat New Zealander whose London-based company, Carol Brown Dances, has toured around the world. Charles Koroneho is a maori ... More >>
Arts Fest Review: James Campbell's Comedy 4 Kids
Sunday, 5 March 2006, 1:55 pm | Lyndon Hood
Most of the audience was unsurprisingly, children (the recommended minimum age was 6 - may seemed to be in the 8-10 bracket) and their parents. I don't fall into either category, but I was curious - stand-up comedy for children? Surely dirty jokes and ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Tristan and Yseult
Saturday, 4 March 2006, 5:55 pm | Lyndon Hood
They had me before they even started. The audience had been handed balloons, and on this occassion it wasn't long before some bright spark thought to blow one up and send it off into the world. It was an idea whose time had come. More >>
Arts Fest Preview: Instructions for Modern Living
Friday, 3 March 2006, 12:41 am | Lyndon Hood
Instructions for Modern Living brings together writer/performer Duncan Sarkies and composer/musician Nic McGowan to explore the hidden life of late-night New Zealand using words, music and video. McGowan spoke to Scoop about the show, working as a ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Super Vision
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 4:30 pm | Lyndon Hood
The first thing that happens in Super Vision makes it abundantly clear that They have been watching You. And if the sight of an actor presenting the audience with its own consumer profile doesn't give you pause for thought, the Privacy Commission's ... More >>
Arts Fest: The Songs of Kurt Weill's Janet Roddick
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 4:21 pm | Lyndon Hood
German theatre composer Kurt Weill is best known for the song 'Mac the Knife', composed for Bertold Brecht's The Threepenny Opera . As part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival, The Songs of Kurt Weill will be sung by Janet Roddick with music from ... More >>
Arts Fest Preview: Maori Showbands' Manny Abrahams
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 1:52 pm | Lyndon Hood
Beginning in the 50s and 60s, Māori showbands took skilled musical performance, witty repartee and Māori culture to mainstream New Zealand and then internationally. This year's Arts Festival recognises these all-round entertainers with Māori ... More >>
Arts Fest Preview: Bright Abyss's James Thiérrée
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 11:34 am | Lyndon Hood
After a highly successful season of The Junebug Symphony at the last New Zealand International Arts Festival, James Thiérrée's company will be returning with their spectacular new production Bright Abyss . Thiérrée spoke to Scoop about the production ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Eraritjaritjaka
Saturday, 25 February 2006, 4:02 pm | Lyndon Hood
Eraritjaritjaka was inspired by the works of Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. His words as they appear in the performance - from notebooks and prose works - have the structure and beauty of poetry, as well as hinting at deeper meanings; about the connections ... More >>
Art Fest: Eraritjaritjaka director Heiner Goebbels
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:20 pm | Lyndon Hood
Director and composer Heiner Goebbels spoke to Scoop 's Lyndon Hood today about his production Eraritjaritjaka - Museum of Phrases . The work is based on text by Nobel prize-winner Elias Canetti and includes performances by actor André Wilms and the ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 4:30 pm | Lyndon Hood
Opinion: Peters Ought To Be Encouraged For 'Soft Criticism' Of U.S - Union: Young Workers Strike as Youth Rates Bill Debated - Politics: Prime Minister's Office Spoke Too Soon On Abizaid Visit - "Arrogant, Insensitive, Confrontational!" – That South ... More >>
Fringe Review: Triffic Travel
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 3:19 pm | Lyndon Hood
The Café Dement team have another site-specific comedy for this year's Fringe. Triffic Travel uses a real travel agents' office to present their vision of holiday planning gone to the dogs. More >>
