Category: Stage

Crave! episode 95: Alien Weaponry, The Book of Mormon, Bombshell, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Emma, and a few thoughts about what’s next.

In what could be the last episode of Crave! to fully feature live entertainment for quite some time, Simon and Steve share a few thoughts about what lies ahead. But in more positive thoughts, Steve has a lot of good…

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: too clever for its own good

Sometimes being very, very clever simply isn’t quite enough. Tom Stoppard was undeniably terribly, dreadfully clever when he wrote Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and it is most certainly a frightfully witty and clever play. But it’s also quite stultifyingly…

Crave! episode 87: Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood; Six Degrees Of Separation; Tom Walker; We Will Rock You; Late Night; and an interview with Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze

Crave! is back after a short winter break, and the big film that’s welcomed Steve and Simon back is Quentin Tarantino’s ninth, and possibly last, possibly penultimate, film, the awkwardly-named Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. Steve’s been to the theatre,…

Six Degrees Of Separation: everything old is new again

The best stories are the ones that age well. John Guare wrote Six Degrees Of Separation thirty years ago, and while the story wouldn’t work in today’s world—the lies, the deceptions, the willingness to be deceived wouldn’t hold up well…

A Fine Balance: a fine retelling of an astonishing story

The Emergency was an extraordinary time in India’s history; A Fine Balance is an extraordinary book, Rohinton Mistry’s story of four people who cling to each other while their worlds fall apart a richly detailed, painful, but beautiful description of…

Crave! episode 84: The Monkees, Aladdin, Rocketman, and a preview of ATC’s A Fine Balance

The Monkees — well, two of them, anyway — came to Auckland this weekend. Simon and Steve were both keen to enjoy some nostalgic, feel-good pop songs; Simon and Steve were both just a little disappointed. Rocketman, on the other hand, is…

Crave! episode 61: The Breaker Uppererers, Olive Copperbottom, Hilary Clinton, Auckland International Comedy Festival

Episode 61 of Crave! has a mix of the international and the local. Steve’s at home in New Zealand, while Simon is broadcasting from the Crave! northern studios in Tromsø, north of the Arctic Circle. But they’ve both seen the…

Crave! episode 28: Doctor Strange, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Slipknot, Mia Blonde — Icedagger

Doctor Strange

Simon and Steve are pleased to have found in Doctor Strange a superhero film from the Marvel Comic Universe that they can both wholeheartedly endorse, but they’re both a little less overwhelmingly enthusiastic about Never Go Back, Tom Cruise’s latest outing…

Crave! episode 23: Suicide Squad, Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, Our Kind Of Traitor, Miller, Poi E

Neither Simon nor Steve has been terribly impressed with Suicide Squad, the latest offering from the DC universe. Simon’s a little kinder, though, perhaps because Poi E left him in such a good mood, as did Miller’s first concert with…