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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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The Bloom — A Response
We first sent Tate Fountain to review Jessie McCall’s work back in 2022. Now in 2024, McCall has a new work, ‘The Bloom’ as part of the Auckland Pride Elevates. Naturally, we sent Tate along to see the artistic evolution.
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The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave — A Response
Through the unce unce unce of ‘The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave’, Elise Sadlier pulls together some thoughts about the endurance-based dance work.
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Club Waack — Audaciously Dancing at the Intersections of Immersive Theatre and Community Building
From inside a re-imagined Raynham Park converted into a disco-bumping ‘Club Waack’, Zech Soakai gets shuffled across the dancefloor. With the downlow for bad apple, he reports back.



