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Ngā Reta — A Response
Elise Sadlier attends Basement Theatre’s first fully te reo Māori production, ‘Ngā Reta’. She writes in response to fellow Gizzy Girl / Te Wānanga Takiura tuakana Te Huamanuka Luiten-Apirana.
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A Slow Burlesque with Freya Silas Finch
Ahead of opening night this week, Tate Fountain sat down to interview Freya Silas Finch about their Silo Theatre production ‘A Slow Burlesque’.
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Gay god
Theo Coles writes of the world that has sunk its teeth in, of the heartbroken poets, of the peach, ocean blue and pink aliveness of a gay god.
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i wonder
Chris Girven wrote this poem after having an existential crisis on their bedroom floor.
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How to Throw a Chinese Funeral — A Response
How does one write about being Chinese? Samantha Cheong reflects on identity through review of Jill Kwan’s ‘How to Throw a Chinese Funeral’.
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Daddy Issues Have Never Looked So Good in ‘Losing Face’ — A Response
Jake Tabata gets stuck in a time loop of race, sexuality, love and fatherhood in his review of Nathan Joe’s new theatre show ‘Losing Face’.
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Pikitia for Sad Tamariki
Time for a reo Māori lesson with Nicola Andrews. Kupu hou o te rā? Takatāpui.
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To Be Queer in the Aotearoa Summer
“Rather than rural spaces being intrinsically homophobic, I think that there are inaccurate assumptions of queer folk present”. Inspired by the lived experience of queer people, Mik writes about how looking queer impacts experience of place in regional New Zealand.
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Whati
This poem is a deep dive into another form of displacement that occurs with people from the diaspora. It is told from the perspective of someone who is from the diaspora, takatāpui, AFAB, born and raised in an urban setting, and all of the ways colonisation and its agents attempt to continue displacing her even…
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Soul Sister — A Live Script Reading
This one’s for the queer Filipino-Kiwis out there just trying to see themselves! Aotearoa theatre may be on the up-and-up with LGBTQ+ stories but that intersectionality and representation is vital. That’s what’s so exciting about Caryl Loria Illana’s ‘Soul Sister’. Ari Banog went to check out the live script reading at BATS Theatre for us.
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When I Arrive in Niue
Poet Katalaina Polata’ivao imagines a time when they once again visit their homeland.
Tag: identity
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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