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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

November 24-30 2007 Vol 211 No 3524

Arts & Music

  • Sculpture Never mind the ducks by Maggie Barry
    STONELEIGH SCULPTURE IN THE GARDENS, Auckland Botanic Gardens, Manurewa, until January 31.

  • Poetry The Jester by John O'Connor
    A Jewish sunset. A particularly grey sunset or perhaps it’s red it’s as old as the hills beneath it...

  • Theatre Pot of gold by Natasha Hay
    END OF THE RAINBOW, by Peter Quilter; directed by Colin McColl, ATC, Sky City Theatre, Auckland (till December 8).
    THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, by Charles Ludlam; directed by Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Silo, Auckland (till December 15).

  • Film One girl, seven women by Helene Wong
    THE DEAD GIRL, directed by Karen Moncrieff.
    THE HEARTBREAK KID, directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly.

  • Music Name your price by Nick Bollinger
    IN RAINBOWS, Radiohead (www.inrainbows.com).

  • Classical CD Classics by Ian Dando
    DEBUSSY: IMAGES INÉDITES, ESTAMPES. PIANIST ALAIN PLANÈS. Harmonia Mundi HMC901947. 2CD...

  • Art Modest mystic by David Eggleton
    Subjects to Hand: Joanna Margaret Paul Drawing, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (until November 18).

  • Culture Vulture Don’t cry for us … by Denis Welch
    Just back from Argentina – the land, he says, of “gauchos, tangos in your ears all day and high-altitude roads...

  • Culture Total control by Simon Sweetman
    It’s not surprising that Anton Corbijn’s debut feature feels like the embodiment of rock’n’roll.


Books

  • Books The outsider by Marion McLeod
    THE ROAD HOME, by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus, $36.99).

  • Books The Good Book by Nicholas Reid
    ON THE BIBLE, by Karen Armstrong (Books That Shook the World series, Allen and Unwin $29.99).