Victor Rodger: A complicated mix
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3797 7th Feb 2013
Racism, race relations and now same-sex marriage are Victor Rodger’s triggers, but he can “never not be funny”.
Dean Parker’s The Tigers of Wrath
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3781 27th Oct 2012
“You do have to produce a play and not just a pamphlet,” says the vigorously political Dean Parker.
Interview: Lynda Chanwai-Earle
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3770 11th Aug 2012
Man in a Suitcase is a China-NZ collaboration that takes a grisly murder as its springboard
Interview: Kirsty Gunn
By Natasha Hay in Books
Issue 3765 7th Jul 2012
“I kind of don’t belong anywhere, and yet both places I belong,” says UK-based New Zealand writer Kirsty Gunn as she releases her fifth novel.
Paula Morris interview
By Natasha Hay in Books
Issue 3730 5th Jul 2012
The author's years of obsessive research have come to fruition with Rangatira.
Interview: Emily Perkins
By Natasha Hay in Books
Issue 3757 4th May 2012
Emily Perkins’s The Forrests, our May Listener Book Club choice, offers readers a profound sensory experience.
New Performance Festival at the Edge
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3744 11th Feb 2012
Stephen Bain discusses his "dream mix-tape" of innovative performance art that begins on Friday in Auckland.
Jesse Peach interview
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3715 23rd Jul 2011
There’s no let-up for this young producer/director.
Indian Ink interview
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3710 18th Jun 2011
Longevity is rare in theatre, but Indian Ink, whose latest work starts this week in Auckland, are 15 years strong, and have just been signed by a top US agent.
Leaps into the unknown
By Natasha Hay in Theatre
Issue 3695 5th Mar 2011
Red Leap established itself as New Zealand's leading devised physical theatre company with its 2009 debut, The Arrival, and now is about to premiere a follow-up, Paper Sky: A Love Story.