Articles
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12.03.2010 Ilija Trojanow reviews Peter Brook's 11 and 12 Currently it's fashionable in Europe to dramatize novels, even vast, complex novels that do not rely on dialogue and weave together so many narratives and motifs that it seems impossible to unravel a major strand. One such novel is Amadou... read on 
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12.03.2010 Authors creative with the truth Amanda Fisher
A journey into the nebulous area between fiction and non-fiction is what awaited those at an audience with creative non-fiction authors Geoff Dyer and Philip Hoare in Writers and Readers Week.
The two British authors yesterday... read on
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12.03.2010 Caroline Baum reviews Shaun Parker's Happy As Larry My favourite message to theatre goers to switch off their mobile phones is at London's Festival Hall, where Gandalf himself, the fruity voice of Sir Iain McKellen, urges you to make sure yours is off. That's hard to beat and virtually worth the... read on 
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09.03.2010 13 Most Beautiful Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of Luna, play to thirteen of Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests at the New Zealand International Arts Festival this March—the Kiwi-born half of this duo making his ‘Wellington debut’. read on -
08.03.2010 Primitive, Sacred and Pure: T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. In Warsaw, MAGADALENA PODBIELKOWSKA and PETER BISLEY from Lumiere Reader interview T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T.'s award-winning Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna, ahead of six performances at the New Zealand International Arts Festival. read on 
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28.02.2010 Arts Festival Review: Mahler Symphony No 8 With even the cheap seats inside the sold out Michael Fowler Centre priced at $140, it's no surprise that a sea of listeners blanketed Civic Square for a free audio and video feed showing Mahler's 8th Symphony being performed in the building behind t read on 
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24.02.2010 The Dean Wareham interview I was looking forward to talking to Dean Wareham because I admired his work with Galaxie 500 and with Luna. And his soundtrack work. But I was nervous too - because I have read his memoir, Black Postcards. read on -
17.02.2010 Tour de Farce SOMEWHERE in south London a tyrannical Irishman is forcing his two adult sons to re-enact his own version of why they are living in their decrepit flat, in exile from their native Cork. read on 
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12.02.2010 Master of mysticism: Why spirituality plays a crucial role in Peter Brook's work Wittgenstein once said that one way of looking at a man's name is as "like piece of jewellery hung round his neck at birth". read on 
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24.01.2010 Size matters, but bigger isn't better THE way to approach programming an arts festival, Lissa Twomey says, is soberly. read on 
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19.01.2010 Kid Goth- Neil Gaiman's Fantasies In "The New Mother," a children's story published by Lucy Clifford in 1882, two previously well-behaved little girls turn so bad-dousing the fire and breaking the clock and dancing on the butter-that their mother is forced to go away, and a new mothe read on 
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17.12.2009 Dance: review of the decade In 10 years, the Cinderella of the arts has got out of the kitchen and begun to have a great time at a never-ending ball. read on 
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11.12.2009 Black comedy has a bright future A guest spot on an experimental music program changed the life of performer and writer Suzanne Andrade and, along the way led to the development of a new form of theatrical entertainment. read on 
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01.12.2009 UK Symphony grows to meet challenge of playing Mahler Gustav Mahler was one of the pre-eminent composers of symphonic works, easily in a group with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms and arguably one of the masters of the symphony. read on -
25.11.2009 Pride of Polish theater festival An immanent component of the Polish character is the need to do things that you can be proud of. Dialogue-Wroclaw is an object of pride for cultural institutions, national and municipal authorities, the mass media, sponsors, and, naturally, Polish ci read on 
