Arts & Music
Poem Impaired vision by Gordon Challis
The hens have settled down for the night I have checked them out all are on their roosts...Culture Vulture To play the king by Denis Welch
Rave reviews – mostly – in Britain for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory season of King Lear and The Seagull,...Music The persistence of METAL by Philip Matthews
You can relax – it’s okay to like heavy metal againTheatre Prop culture by Harry Ricketts
FINDING MURDOCH, by Margot McRae; directed by Geraldine Brophy, Downstage, Wellington, until July 14.DVDs Radio on the TV by Philip Matthews & Chris Knox
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Magna Pacific). I’ve always loved Robert Altman – despite many of his movies being nearly unwatchable...Film Big smiles, please by Helene Wong
RAZZLE DAZZLE, directed by Darren Ashton.
STARTER FOR 10, directed by Tom Vaughan.Music Grime wave by Jim Pinckney
MATHS + ENGLISH, Dizzee Rascal (XL). When Dylan Mills emerged four years ago with Boy in the Corner, he was...Theatre Teletubbies in hell by Faith Oxenbridge
THE THIRTY NINE STEPS, adapted and directed by Ross Gumbley, Court One, until July 21.
BABYLON HEIGHTS, by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh; directed by Jon Pheloung, Court Two, until July 14.Theatre A kind of loathing by Harry Ricketts
FAT PIG, by Neil LaBute; directed by Ross Jolly, Circa, Wellington, until July 14.
Books
Books The eighth continent by David Larsen
THE ARRIVAL, by Shaun Tan (Hachette Livre, $40).Books Infinity & beyond by Marilyn Head
THE NEVER-ENDING DAYS OF BEING DEAD: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science, by Marcus Chown (Faber and Faber, $50).Books Bite club by Sam Finnemore
RANT, by Chuck Palahniuk (Jonathan Cape, $36.99).Books Moscow to Wellington by Philip Matthews
A few people think that Landfall went off the boil after Justin Paton stopped editing it at issue 210...Books Six of six million by Nicholas Reid
THE LOST, by Daniel Mendelsohn (Fourth Estate, $44.99).
