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Seriously Playing the Fool
Micahel Hurst dons the Fool costume for King Lear, three decades after first tackling the role. By Barney McDonald.
Micahel Hurst dons the Fool costume for King Lear, three decades after first tackling the role. By Barney McDonald.
The cover of Max Emanuel Cencic's Venezia says it all. The Croatian countertenor is all elegance, in dinner jacket and cravat, in front of an ornate wallpaper that might adorn the walls of a Venetian palazzo.
Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.
Pictures from the opening night of the Auckland Arts Festival performance by French pyrotechnical wizards Groupe F
Those heading to tonight's performance by the Royal New Zealand Ballet should expect the rowdiness of a beer hall and a touch of Hollywood action mixed in with the more traditional fare.
Walking tours - especially those guided by a remote, apparently all-seeing, all-knowing central HQ - are full of tantalising possibilities: where will I be going? How will I know how to get there?
Cantina opens with a velvety voiced crooner promising to "shoot the moon right out of the sky" and honours that with an exhilarating acrobatics display set in the seductive ambience of a 1920s speak-easy.
Restrictions at this year's kapa haka championships has led to members of the public criticising mainstream media for the lack of coverage.
It was an astute piece of marketing on the part of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to launch its 2013 season with Tan Dun conducting his Martial Arts Trilogy.