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November 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 36 – Charlotte Yates

Welcome to episode 36 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. I first met Charlotte Yates about 15 years ago, one of the very first people I interviewed. Since then she’s continued to write and record solo albums, to teach music, and to develop inspiring, enduring projects based around the written words of […]

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May 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 79 – Woman Far Walking, Wellington, 2000

It was the “World Premiere” of a new play by Witi Ihimaera – and it was the Arts Festival. I was studying a paper at Vic Uni, one that I actually was quite into – drama department, but it was about theatre as texts more than the acting side. It was really an English paper. […]

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January 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

White Lies: DVD

White Lies Director: Dana Rotberg South Pacific Pictures Here, a Witi Ihimaera novella is stretched to breaking point by a filmmaker who chose to adopt New Zealand as home and workplace after seeing Whale Rider. So we have a bloodless and boring fan-letter as film. The opening moments suggest something good may come – that’s […]