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Before Karma Gets Us: Magic, Chaos, and Clowns
Magic, dance, music, monologue and everything else in between. gorm hendo is left in stitches from laughing in this review of ‘Before Karma Gets Us’.
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Plastic by Stacey Teague
Through the pages of Stacey Teague’s new poetry collection, ‘Plastic’, Isla Huia holds her breath. When the final poem ends, she comes back up for air to share her thoughts.
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Centurian (2023)
In this poem, Jason Lingard recalls a trip to a gay sauna that is both passionate and a bit awkward.
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Local Immortals
Gay blackmail, bloodshed, and… art? Kate Wilkinson-Smith’s bad apple debut is a ghost story, not a love story.
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Scooby Doo (2002) and Other Topics with Nick Robertson
Australian comedian Nick Robertson is on a world tour, performing his show ‘Leave to Enter’ at famous locales such as Wellington and Dunedin. Callum Knight chats with him to learn more about Nick’s tax-deductible NZ tour experience.
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Cowboy Dreaming — A Response
Enveloped by the soft edges of this devised work—all tossed sheets, projected clouds and Elvis classics—Isabelle Hoskyn writes of Lunar Collaborative’s ‘Cowboy Dreaming’.
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Trying to Know ‘Only the Stars Know Where I’ve Been’
‘Only the Stars Know Where I’ve Been’ is a being newly born into the world. Jane Smolira writes of trying to know the work and asks choreographer Jake Starrs about his thoughts and hopes for the season.
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Exploring the Alien World of VIDA
Crash-landing in Aotearoa to spread ’70s-DIY-sci-fi magic infused with spiritual and sensually erotic themes, VIDA chats with interviewer Jean Victor about her debut single, alter egos, icons and DIY creation.
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Everywhere I go I leave little piles of sand
That was the summer we all got sickgutters flooded with wattle and pine I lived in constant readiness to see a sea lionstraining to sight the waves from my deckstayed up too late sucking the heat from the wallsthank godyou can look at the moon without being blinded I remember the Garden of Edenand life…
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From the Editor — A 2024 Reflection
Lead editor Damien Levi tries to sum up bad apple’s 2024 in retrospect, with a selection of ten pieces to read over the summer.
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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