Carl Nixon's witty Kiwiana adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, originality and topical jokes in Roger Hall's Cinderella - The Pantomime, and tragic plots end up in a Marx Brothers-like finale in No Taste Forever are some of the reviews added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

Carl Nixon's witty Kiwiana adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, originality and topical jokes in Roger Hall's Cinderella - The Pantomime, and tragic plots end up in a Marx Brothers-like finale in No Taste Forever are some of the reviews added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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Court One, Christchurch - GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS: Delightfully irreverent, relevant and fresh with local flavour
- reviewed by Erin Harrington

Carl Nixon's witty Kiwiana adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears presents Goldilocks with a mystery: her parents admit that they found her in the forest and don't even know her real name.

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BATS, Wellington - NO TASTE FOREVER!: Tragic plots end up in a Marx Brothers-like finale
- reviewed by Laurie Atkinson

Always expect the unexpected in a Paul Rothwell play. His latest looks at first as if it is going to be a revue even though it starts with the accidental death of a young girl, whose ghost later appears every now and then in search of the ice-cream she was about to eat when disaster struck.

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Civic Theatre, Auckland - ROGER HALL'S CINDERELLA - THE PANTOMIME: More wacky action needed amid good quips for adults
- reviewed by Kate Ward-Smythe

There's plenty of colour, originality and topical jokes in Roger Hall's Cinderella - The Pantomime - hats off to Amici Productions and Caught Jesters Theatre Company for making it happen. It must be nerve-wracking to take the risk on Britain's mid-winter Yuletide custom of Pantomime, in the middle of our warm sunny NZ Christmas holidays.

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BATS, Wellington - NO TASTE FOREVER!: A frolic to give you colic?
- reviewed by John Smythe

I want to luxuriate in the profligacy but finally feel it suffers from over-indulgence, much like the play's climactic Perfect Taste Festival . [which a tasteless ex-chef] hijacks in favour of a 'Taste Everything' fest which turns into a shambles.

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