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Confessions from the Sick Bay — A Review
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay. Possibly the book with the longest name that Harold has ever reviewed for bad apple. Intrigued?
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I Get So Emotional Baby — A Review
Tate Fountain is back to review a new piece of work from choreographic artist Jessie McCall—’I Get So Emotional Baby’. There’s an ominous white rug, a slumber party/bunker and three woman in shifting forms. Find all this and more under the cut.
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Po’ Boys and Oysters — A Review
“Po’ Boys and Oysters” is a groundbreaking piece of theatre from Estelle Chout and the folks at Black Creatives Aotearoa. It finally debuted at The Basement last week after years of COVID delays. Octavius Jones was welcomed along to clue us in on how the debut went.
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Roll & Break by Adrienne Jansen
As people of Aotearoa we are intrinsically tied to the sea. Adrienne Jansen explores this relationship in her new poetry collection, ‘Roll & Break’ and Harold takes a dip into these new waters.
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We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
“If this book were fire, I would burn myself on it daily.” Harold reviews Khadro Mohamed’s poetry collection ‘We’re All Made of Lightning’. Putting in words feelings they’ve returned to repeatedly since first reading the collection.
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Gay Death Stocktake — A Review
Life ends at 30 for a gay man. Nathan Joe’s latest production, ‘Gay Death Stocktake’ explores this old myth in an unrehearsed, directorless exploration of life past 30 with a different queer man on stage each night.
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Silo Theatre’s ‘The Writer’ — A Review
Swallowed whole by Q Theatre’s Rangatira, Tate Fountain experiences the Silo Theatre premiere performance of Ella Hickson’s ‘The Writer’. Like a lady on fire, she paints a portrait of the evening.
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Chrome Dome & Schizo — A Review
Alex de Vries sits among the cool crowd on opening night of Hot Shame and Dan Goodwin’s “Chrome Dome & Schizo”. Here are his thoughts from the evening.
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Trixie and Katya Live: A night of kookiness, costumes, and Klarma.
After two long years with dates pushed out and pushed out again Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova finally arrived in Pōneke. Kat wasn’t going to miss the chance to finally see them live.
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Slow Down, You’re Here by Brannavan Gnanalingam
harold is back on their bullshit and here with a book that flipped the script on what they expected—Slow Down, You’re Here.
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EP 9 — The Inner Saboteur
No, you’re not dreaming baby. Olivia is back AGAIN! She’s taking over The Inner Saboteur whilst Harold heals up. In EP 9 of the RuCup she dives into viral dance challenges with Hysteria!