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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: an Auckland Arts Festival event
Image: Auckland Theatre Company It’s official: Still Life With Chickens is part of the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival. Fortress Mamea is chuffed.
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: an Auckland Arts Festival top ten pick
The Spinoff‘s Auckland editor Simon Wilson listed his top ten picks for the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival recently. Still Life With Chickens is at 9½, alongside works by Hone Kouka, Ahi Karunaharan and...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: visiting Wellington
Still Life With Chickens is part of Circa Theatre’s 2018 programme, yusss: Tuesday 8 May – Sunday 2 June 2018. The terror of having my work shown in my hometoon is jostling with the excitement of...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: visiting Palmerston North
I guess Still Life With Chickens is doing a wee tour: Palmerston North’s Centrepoint Theatre has programmed it for 7–15 April 2018 which is very pleasing.
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Nonagenarius
The Mamea family had a get-together earlier this year. With almost all of his progeny in one room, my father announced that this year he was turning 90 years and he expected a full and proper...
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Yeah —
— it’s that time of year to relax and watch a classic Christmas movie: Best of the season to you and yours.
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2017 in Points
Fair use, Link My reading output (input?) this year was better than last year. But it coulda should’ve been much better. Standouts from the reading diary: Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara...
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2017 in Pixels
By Source, Fair use, Link Enjoyed on the big screen: Rogue One O le Tulafale (The Orator) Nocturnal Animals The Lobster Get Out The Big Sick Blade Runner 2049 Lucky Logan Dunkirk Three Billboards...
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2017 on Stage
I’m as shocked as you are: I haven’t done a best-of of live theatre since 2012 — and even then I lumped it in with the screen stuff. Highlights from 2017: Riverside Kings by Natano Keni and Sarita So...
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Hello World
In the first eighteen months of the new Fortress Mamea, our chicken flock increased a number of times. (We can’t remember how many times; we’re softies with fuzzy memories.) How could we say no to the...
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Kunekune
Fortress Mamea has around three acres of paddocks. Three acres is a lot of ground area. Despite the best efforts of the cavalry element and a small flock of sheep*, the paddocks were getting overgrown...
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Front Door Boots
The inhabitants of Fortress Mamea have at least two pairs of farm boots each: one for the front door, the other for the back door. Surrounded as we are by muck and mud paddocks and woodland, it’s much...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: rehearsals commence
L–R: The writer, the puppeteer, the director, the designer, the actor, and the manager. (Image courtesy Auckland Theatre Company.) Rehearsals for Still Life With Chickens kicked off this week with an...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: rehearsal reports
Rehearsals are continuing apace in Auckland while life goes on in Northland. An unexpected perk on this production is the rehearsal reports I’m sent at the end of each work day: a one-pager of what...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: a fortnight hence
I looked at the calendar and saw with some shock that the first performance is less than a fortnight away. Less than a fortnight. Until I can figure what else to blog about, here’s some chicken in a...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: home stretch
The play opens this Thursday. I don’t know where the time has fled. Meantime: designer John Parker was interviewed on Radio New Zealand about his love of puppetry; there are these pieces at Stuff and...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: it begins
Image courtesy Auckland Theatre Company. The lead up to the opening has been more public than I expected. The write-ups and mentions continued in the Herald, the Listener (hardcopy only), and Tagata...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: Auckland run final days
Even though I’ve more pressing matters, I’ve been unable to stop refreshing the ticketing page for Still Life With Chickens: Tickets as at 21 March 2018. Between testing Fortress Mamea’s acoustics with...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: on the Manawatū Plains
Image supplied to stuff.co.nz. I’ve been laggardly with this blog: Still Life With Chickens has already had three performances at Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North. Its Manawatū stopover has been...
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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: final approach to Wellington premiere
It’s all “Still Life”-this and “Still Life”-that, some of you are carping. I can’t help it. It’s a big thing for me. It’s a week out from the show’s Wellington premiere and my anxiety has increased...
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