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Revisiting Black Faggot with Victor Rodger
Nathan Joe chats with fellow playwright Victor Rodger via Zoom about the recent current re-staging of the latter’s ‘Black Faggot’, and it’s persisting relevance in our cultural landscape.
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SOMETHING OF YOU
The world is so vast, so small and filled with the knowledge of those before us. From the moana to the whetū, in this long-form piece Liam Jacobson travels through these places to find the voices calling us home.
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ScatterGun: After the Death of Rūaumoko — A Response to Ana Chaya Scotney
Liam Jacobson sits earthy, grounded, in Ana Chaya Scotney’s world of atua and tūpuna. They’re let in and the wairua flows and the grief floats up like bubbles in a muddy hot pool.
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Swallow Your Grief!
A house slides down from its perch on a cliff and a departed pet is kept in a cake-shaped box in the freezer in this essay from Gurleen Minhas.
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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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Waterview Tunnel song
This poem is about the absurdity of love, tunnels, Tinder, and singing in the car.
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Small Town Gay in the City
Mary Mosteller writes a jaded love letter to Uber in this punch-drunk poem.
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Developing ‘Trust Issues’ with adv
Off the back of the release of his latest single ‘Bubblebath’, bad apple writer Devon Webb chats with adv (Alex de Vries) about an upcoming album, the process of music-making, ideas of decolonisation and race, the past and the future and more.
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Night and Mortar — A Review
Night and Mortar takes the stage on a stormy night in Grey Lynn and Alex de Vries sits at a fold-out table with a drink to nurse ready for the performance to unfold.
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Black Creatives Aotearoa Playwrights’ Lab
Eight plays, four directors and 14 actors. The Black Creatives Aotearoa Playwrights’ Lab Showcase overflowed with talent and potential. Tate Fountain reports on the day’s events.
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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.
Tag: Tāmaki Makaurau
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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