Here is a selection of recent reviews from theatreview.org.nz from the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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Here is a selection of recent reviews from theatreview.org.nz from the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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Circa Two, Wellington
FLECT-RE-FLECT: Great music to celebrate a breadth of work
- reviewed by Fiona McNamara

Flect-Re-Flect is a musical commemoration of the work of Sally Rodwell, Alan Brunton and Red Mole Theatre company. As a tribute piece it works perfectly. Rodwell's and Brunton's words are treated sincerely and passionately ...

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Victorian Garden Conservatory, Hamilton
BOUNCERS: Fast, tight performance of nasty, funny play
- reviewed by Gail Pittaway

John Godber's quartet for four actors in the guise of Bouncers at a northern English night club certainly rocks the hanging baskets in its staid Victorian Conservatory venue.

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Opera House, Wellington
HULLAPOLLOI : FOOTNOTE FORTE 2011: A highly intelligent and entertaining experience
- reviewed by Amy Hughson

Highly acclaimed Jo Randerson and Kate McIntosh have collaborated to create a vibrant, insightful and entertaining performance piece.

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Basement Theatre, Auckland
TEA FOR TOOT: A magical and menacing must-see!
- reviewed by Keziah Warner

Tea for Toot is the story of Emily and Georgia Waters, daughters of children's author Mary Waters, and inspired by the daughters of Enid Blyton. They live their lives dictated by their mother's wishes and immersed in the fictional world she has created for them.

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Fringe Bar, Cnr Cuba & Vivian, Wellington
HEROIC FAUN NUMBER ONE: Clash of ego, ambition, fear and vulnerability
- reviewed by John Smythe

Highly anticipated after its two successful seasons at The Basement in Auckland, Heroic Faun No One more than lives up to expectations. Greg Cooper's story and his telling - or rather showing - of it is a Wellington Fringe must-see.

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TAPAC Theatre, Western Springs, Auckland
GLORIA: A wonderful tribute
- reviewed by Stephen Austin

In the telling of the tale of their own grandmother, Gloria Stanford ... creators Amy and Catherine Waller - with designer Naomi Bisley - have created a rich, refined work ...

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Fringe Bar, Cnr Cuba & Vivian, Wellington
HOW'S WIFE: Seriously unprepared
- reviewed by James McKinnon

Jennifer O'Sullivan is a charming, funny performer, and for these reasons among others one suspects that she "will make a great wife" - if she doesn't already; she's been working at it for a year now. Her husband is clearly taking his role seriously as well ...

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Galatos, Auckland
THE SEX SHOW: Brave, risqué ensemble work: take an open mind but not your Grandmother!
- reviewed by Adey Ramsel

Against a seedy backdrop of subdued lighting, red and black shades and shadows, 19 cast members take it upon themselves the almost impossible task of defining sex and what it means to us.

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Camellia Lawn, Gate 2, Hamilton Gardens, Hamilton
AWAY: From realism into magic and back again
- reviewed by Gail Pittaway

... Michael Gow's play, on the surface, is simply about getting away, in itself a theme ripe for comedy, as road movies and holiday sketches will attest. But this Shakespearean prologue and the later epilogue from King Lear signal greater levels of meaning to be revealed.

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Studio 77, VUW, Wellington
THIS RUGGED BEAUTY: The nature of being Kiwi
- reviewed by Laurie Atkinson

This Rugged Beauty is a sort of slyly subversive This is New Zealand, which was a glossy triple-split-screen film, made for the 1970 Expo in Japan. It is a journey of before and after the end of the golden weather for David and Judy, which we make too with our eyes closed for some of the time ...

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