Bats Theatre, Shed 11
Oct 17-26 | Reviewed by Ewan Kingston

THIS PLAY... or should I say these plays... or should I say the version of this play I saw... whatever it is... is fresh, delightful and exciting theatre. It also feels kinda strange recommending a theatre experience that has a 50% chance of being very different from what I experienced.

Circa Theatre
Oct 14-Nov 11 | Reviewed by Joe Sheppard

IT WAS A happy coincidence: the NZSO filled the Te Papa marae with the sounds of Peter and the Wolf, while later that evening, across the courtyard, Prokofiev was joined by Shostakovich and Master Class opened its season at the Circa Theatre. But it was more than mere chance that the production featured key players who were behind the show when it received remarkable acclaim twenty years ago, and that many of those fulsome quotes – pulled from the contemporary reviews for advertising – were also worthy of the new Master Class.

Bats Theatre
Sept 28-Oct 14 | Reviewed by Melody Nixon

ROYAL Physician Sir William Gull wants to ‘chisel his deeds into the conscience of humanity’. A nice, if slightly grandiose metaphor, you might think. Sadly no; what Gull wants to chisel is something more flesh-like than a nice metaphor. This is Britain in the literal nineteenth century and the conscience, according to Gull, is stored in the frontal lobe of the brain.