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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BATS, Wellington - FUDDY MEERS: Holding distorting mirrors up to life

- reviewed by John Smythe

Every morning when Clare wakes up she has no idea who she is, where she is or who the people around her are. Her husband Richard - whom she keeps calling Phillip without knowing why - has to explain all over again about the psychogenic amnesia she has suffered for the past two years.

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School of Physical Education, Otago University, Dunedin - CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI COOKIES: A the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

- reviewed by Kasey Dewar

Accompanied A J Hicklings on a wooden pipe-like instrument the dancer's movements seemed to be inspired by nature with delicate bird-like movements and striking arched poses. Overall it was beautifully choreographed piece carefully matched to the haunting music of the pipe, and set off with the sun shining down over the large free-standing archway.

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Burns Hall, Dunedin - SOMETHING WORTH SEEING?: Poetic smell of sunshine, sweaty clothes, and spicy foods

- reviewed by Sharon Matthews

Bula vinaka, Kia ora, talofa lava, malo e lelei, kia orana.

I'm in love. I'm in love with a group of young Pacific Island and Maori poets, wordsmiths, writers, and musicians from in and around South Auckland.

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Civic Theatre, Auckland - BARE FOR CHRISTCHURCH AT THE CIVIC: The resultant standing ovation all but caused another earthquake

- reviewed by Nik Smythe

Originally written as a two-hander, for one male and one female to play the seventeen characters between them, the charitable company has stretched Bare to allot one actor per role. In one way it's the definition of a guilty pleasure to be so grateful to have witnessed this historic event.

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Globe Theatre, Dunedin - DROWNING IN VERONICA LAKE: Strength in uncertainty

- reviewed by Sharon Matthews

The play opens with a striking image. A woman with long blonde hair stands centre-stage in a figure-hugging white gown that spreads out into an enormous pool of fabric at her feet. Caught in the spotlight of our gaze ...

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Hawkes Bay Opera House, Hastings - THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES: Heart and humanity

- reviewed by Kirsty van Rijk

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler walks a delicate balance between political activism and entertaining theatre. When it was first performed the content was shocking politically, socially, theatrically. But as a feminist text, I'm not sure The Vagina Monologues hasn't lost some of its impact as the changes it sought have come of age.

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Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin - THE REAL NEW ZEALAND TOUR: The Triple A and RTDs

- reviewed by Kate Morris

Thank God I wasn't in the front row. Anyone that dared sit there was in for a ribbing.

Fortunately the trio of Vaughan King, Steve Wrigley and Ben Hurley (of TV3 7 Days fame) possess an intuitive ability to identify who they can get away with picking on.

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Glenroy Auditorium, Dunedin - WILSON DIXON'S AMERICAN DREAM: A marvellous, fully developed and loveable character

- reviewed by Patrick Davies

Another Dunedin comic makes it big, and in front of a capacity crowd, Jesse Griffin's loveable cowboy wowed them. Jesse was one of a posse of Dunedin talent that went through Allen Hall Theatre at one of its most prolific and talented times.

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Fortune Theatre Studio, Dunedin - CAPTURING OTHER: A vertical expression of a horizontal desire

- reviewed by Lyne Pringle

Dunedin ballroom dancing stalwart Stan Robilliard was buried yesterday. His famous remark that "Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire" is, I think, an apt overarching statement for the show Capturing Other ...

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Polson Higgs Comedy Club, XII Below Bar, Dunedin - IRENE PINK AND JUSTINE SMITH IN I'M SORRY I SAID THAT: Brilliant, laugh out loud funny, thoughtful, insightful, a little bit (actually hugely) dirty

- reviewed by Patrick Davies

One of the funniest, laugh out loud, side splitting, organ imploding nights I've had in years. A capacity crowd chortled, hooted and roared it's appreciation of two talents in their prime.

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