Arts & Music
Film Unsentimental journey by Helene Wong
Mads Mikkelsen’s performance in Prag is a masterclass in screen acting.Art Eyes Wide Shut by John Coley
Stanley Kubrick loved Ted Bullmore, but New Zealand didn’t do surrealism.Classical The art of imagination by Ian Dando
The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra turns a lively 50.Music Voodoo Rocker by Kiran Dass
The Puddle’s George D Henderson has an almost
shamanic knack for neatly concise pop songs.Theatre Hello Sailor by Frances Edmond
Before a full house in the intimate space of the PumpHouse Theatre in Takapuna, Ian Hughes premieres his one-man show,...Poetry Big Operator by Leonard Lambert
With large & lazy mastery you waved your grand baton at the hectic highly-coloured screen...Theatre Six characters in search of an insight by Elspeth Sandys
When a one-woman play is commissioned with a specific actress in mind, the chances of it turning out to be more than just a “showcase” are slim.
Books
Books End Game by Marion McLeod
Stet author Diana Athill is a bestseller at 90, with her latest memoir as candid on life and lovers as those that preceded it.Books Struggle for Dignity by Nelson Wattie
Fifty years of OE Middleton’s love for flawed and unspectacular characters.Cultural Curmudgeon Of beer and books by Hamish Keith
Since 1967, surveys into the leisure-time preferences of New Zealanders have placed reading either at the top or pretty close...Books Labour of Laughs by David Hill
A comic novel that’s more than just farce.
