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July 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Grace Jones – Bloodlight and Bami: DVD
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Director: Sophie Fiennes Umbrella Entertainment As with her recent/ish memoir (a mostly great read) here Grace Jones is self-mythologising. And rightly. Wisely. More than fair enough. She’s singular – her impact felt across fashion and music and (to a lesser degree) both the big and small screen. She’s a visual […]Archive
June 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 118 – Chris Tse
Welcome to episode 118 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a conversation with Chris Tse. He’s a Wellington poet. He’s done some acting and music-making too but it’s for his books How To Be Dead In A Year of Snakes and the very recently released He’s So […]Archive
May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 116 – Mark Cubey
Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]Archive
April 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 113 – Lisa Harrow
Welcome to episode 113 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I met Lisa Harrow in the green room at Circa Theatre. She is acting royalty. I couldn’t believe my luck – that she had agreed to a long conversation for the podcast. Well, then, as soon as I met […]Archive
April 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Switzerland: Theatre
Switzerland Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Joanna Murray-Smith) Circa Theatre; Circa Two (March 17 – April 14) Written by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, Switzerland imagines the crime writer Patricia Highsmith in her final days at home – hiding – in the Swiss Alps. She’s a grump, worse than that she’s racist, she’s a misanthrope; trusting […]Archive
March 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 219 – Lungs, Wellington, 2016
The play Lungs was terrific – click there to read my review. Perfect small theatre, in the Circa Studio, a two-hander, unnamed couple, “She” and “He” I believe the notes said, or “Him” and “Her” or some such. I was there on opening night. I don’t often go to opening night. I find the rattling […]Archive
December 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 95 – Gavin Rutherford
Welcome to episode 95 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Gavin Rutherford, he’s a Wellington-based actor closely associated with Circa Theatre – but maybe you’ve seen him across film and TV appearances also. He does voice work, some directing and anything that needs […]Archive
September 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Anahera: Theatre
Anahera Direction: Katie Wolfe (written by Emma Kinane) Circa Theatre; Circa One (Sept 9 – Oct 7) Anahera (‘Angel’) is a young Maori social worker – and her angel-like presence hangs over the production; she’s there on stage in many non-speaking moments – quite literally embodying the ‘take a stand’ theme within this play, an […]Archive
July 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
WEED: Theatre
WEED Direction: Ross Jolly (written by Anthony McCarten) Circa Theatre; Circa One (July 1 – 29) The play WEED was first performed as a contemporary piece – the playwright Anthony McCarten had the success of Ladies Night behind him and its 1990 premiere was at Circa Theatre in its earlier locale.Archive
June 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 66 – Danny Mulheron
Welcome to episode 66 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with the actor, writer, director Danny Mulheron. I hadn’t met Danny until he bounded in through the doorway, found the piano in our house and started hitting the […]Archive
April 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman