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Leave to Enter — A Response
Reporting from Dunedin Fringe Festival, Nicola Brown reviews fellow comedian Nick Robertson. In his show, ‘Leave to Enter,’ Nicola meets characters like Mario the Uber driver and learns why ‘Scooby Doo’ (2002) is the best film of all time.
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Koroseta — A Response
Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson is taken back to her aunty’s kitchen, laughing along with cousins, in this review of Taute Vaai’s ‘Koroseta’.
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REDUNDANT — A Response
Auckland Pride lives on in this review of Jess Karamjeet’s comedy show, ‘REDUNDANT’ from Sanjana Khusal. Sex, songs, humour and redundancy—all you could ask for.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre — A Response
Confronted with the durational work interpretation of Josiah Morgan’s book ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ Alex de Vries tries to experience the moment.
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PEER REVIEW
In response to Mx. Well’s ‘Gender Marxist’ at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, Liz Breslin pens a prose poetry piece where academic overthinking meets academically titled comedy.
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Amma by Saraid de Silva
kī anthony and their sibling explore rage, alienation, and their own fraught family through Saraid de Silva’s ‘Amma’.
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When I open the shop by romesh dissanayake
Hannah Patterson reviews romesh dissanayake’s debut novel ‘When I open the shop’. In which she finds grief, hope, ill-timed hookups, carrot salad and a rainy Remutaka Ranges road trip—among many other things.
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Satisfaction of Touch (A Response to ‘Our Jurisdiction’)
Eliana Gray tries to move along “through spaces of physical reality and psychological stipulations,” in this review of dance work ‘Our Jurisdiction’.
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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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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’.