Camping capers hit the right spot in 'The Motor Camp', 'Etiquette' is an intriguing oddity and 'Heat' is dramatic, comic, confrontational, visceral and moving. Just some of the reviews added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

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Circa Two, Wellington
HEAT: Dramatic, comic, confrontational, visceral, moving
- reviewed by John Smythe

Heat is on. If you missed it before in Wellington, make sure you see it now. If you saw it at Bats, it's definitely worth another visit.

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Matterhorn, Cuba Mall, Wellington
ETIQUETTE: An intriguing oddity
- reviewed by John Smythe

As an exercise in cutting out key creative components in may, at first glance, appear to share elements with Playback, Improv and Verbatim Theatre, which make the playwright, as such, redundant. But Etiquette is written, indeed it is dictated. It is pre-rehearsed actors who are redundant here ...

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Circa One, Wellington
THE MOTOR CAMP: Camping capers hit right spot
- reviewed by Laurie Atkinson

Holidays can bring families closer together and they can drive them apart. In The Motor Camp the home truths revealed in the hectic climax involving the two neighbouring camping families are such that one would have thought divorce would be inevitable. However, being a comedy, within a matter of about eight minutes all ends happily.

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Circa One, Wellington
THE MOTOR CAMP: Enjoyable, if rather predictable, comedy
- reviewed by Hannah Smith

I was surprised by what a good time I had.  Imagine something halfway between the Outrageous Fortune Christmas special where they go camping, and Four Flat Whites in Italy, plus two teenagers. Much humour is wrung from the contrasting politics and principles, and more from the trials and tribulations of campsites.

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