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$22m Blenheim theatre delayed as date with Kiri looms
21 Jan 2016The planned opening of a $22 million theatre in Blenheim next month has been put off until March because of building delays.
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Buskers: Miss Behave
Swordswallower Amy Saunders aka Miss Behave has brought a gameshow to the World Buskers Festival in Christchurch. Audio
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Buskers - David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache
Christchurch is about to be inundated with buskers as The World Buskers Festival begins. David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache from Rollicking Entertainment are performing throughout the festival in… Audio
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Suicide play helps teens to cope with loss
In response to a wave of youth suicides in recent months, a group of young people struggling to cope with their loss have got together to write and perform a play. Audio
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Desiree Burch
Desiree Burch is a comedian, performer and educator from New York. She is one of NY magazine's Ten New Comedians and just recently won the Funny Women awards in the UK. Audio
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Sophie Roberts
Artistic Director of Auckland's Silo Theatre tells us about their 2016 programme, described as a collection of work that 'celebrates the anarchic, the wild and the beautiful fight in us all to survive… Audio
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NZ comedian Jon Gadsby remembered
13 Dec 2015Tributes have been flowing for comedian and writer Jon Gadsby, who has died of cancer at the age of 62. Video
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Shakespeare with David Lawrence: Twelfth Night
Director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company founded in 2000 to explore text-based theatre and redefine classic works. Their latest production is A Christmas Karel Capek at BATS (to 19… Audio
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Tim Crouch: living Shakespeare
Award winning UK actor and playwright who is visiting Auckland in partnership with the British Council to present his solo show, I, Peaseblossom, the story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream… Audio
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The Morepork - Part 10
Unnatural Selection (Pt 2). Our raffish raptor is held captive on the Naturist's private island and gets down to the nitty gritty. Sound engineer Phil Benge Producer Duncan Smith. Audio
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Carl Bland: Te Po
Playwright and actor Carl Bland discusses his new play Te Po. Part of the World Premiere Season at the New Zealand Festival and Auckland Arts Festival 2016, the play uses the opposites love and death… Audio
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Seacliff Mental Hospital: The Musical
In 1942, 37 women died in a fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital just north of Dunedin. Until the Ballantynes fire in Christchurch a few years later, it was New Zealand's worst fire disaster. Playwright… Audio
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The Morepork - Part 9
27 Nov 2015Unnatural Selection (Pt 1) The Morepork swoops in and (in the words of Elvis Presley) finds himself caught in a trap. Engineered by Phil Benge Produced by Duncan Smith Audio
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Funny Business - Jimmy Carr
He is one of the world's funny men. He is hardly off the tele in the UK and more than one-and-a-half million people have seen him perform live. He is the outrageous stand-up comedian, Jimmy Carr. And… Audio
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Theatre - Naomi van den Broek
Naomi van den Broek has been to see Mary Poppins at the Court Theatre. Audio
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The Plight of Elephants
The Elephant Thief, which is set in the future, is written by Jacob Rajan, who for the first time won't be performing in an Indian Ink production. There are many including Krishnan's Dairy, Kiss the… Audio
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The Morepork - Part 8
20 Nov 2015The Sound of Sickness (Pt 2) by Andy James The Morepork battles the riffing rogue whose jazzy jamming is bringing the capital to a stand still. Engineered by Phil Benge Produced by Duncan Smith Audio
