Production Reviews

ROADSKILLS FKA Twigs by Cat Strom.Photo Credits: Troy Constable FKA twigs’ visually intoxicating new show Magdalene is a bold reimagining of how music can be staged by a recording artist in the 21st century. Internationally acclaimed songwriter, director and dancer, FKA twigs performed a one-night only show at Carriageworks for Vivid Sydney 2019. An FKA…

OPERA   The Barber of Seville lights up New Zealand   by Jenny Barrett.   “From Betty Crocker to Rocky Horror, with a dash of Meatloaf and McEnroe, a splash of Split Enz and a quiff of Elvis” (Michael Hooper, Theatre Review) wouldn’t be the description that you would expect for a 200 year old…

ROADSKILLS   Post Malone by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   Post Malone is lauded as being the voice of a generation. Ask anyone over 40 years of age if they know him and you’d probably get a negative.   They wouldn’t know that last year’s album Beerbongs & Bentleys swiftly became one of…

THEATRE Bowie Does Brecht Lighting ‘Lazarus’   by Jason Allen. Photo Credit: Jeff Busby.   One of David Bowie’s final creative projects, the musical ‘Lazarus’ came to Melbourne’s Playhouse in May for its first Australian production. Multi-award winning lighting designer Paul Jackson worked with The Production Company and director Michael Kantor to bring the enigmatic…

ROADSKILLS   Human Nature by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   Australia’s most popular vocal group, Human Nature, celebrated 30 years of making music with a national tour entitled Little More Love Tour: A 30-Year Celebration Tour 2019.   In their 30-year career, Human Nature have sold more than 2.5 million albums, earned 27…

ROADSKILLS   Meg Mac by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   The Give Me My Name Back Australian tour, presented by triple j, opened at Sydney’s The Enmore Theatre to a sold-out crowd and continued around Australia and NZ.   For many years Michael ‘Smasha’ Pollard has been a regular on the touring circuit…

ROADSKILLS Franklin Graham Gospel Tour by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: CPC Production Services   Tour life is not all rock’n’roll excess as sometimes the client is of a somewhat different mold.   Recently CPC Production Services was contracted to supply a full technical production solution for Franklin Graham’s six-city tour preaching the Gospel in Australia.…

ROADSKILLS Fat Freddy’s Drop by Cat Strom. Photos: Troy Constable   From humble beginnings as a ‘jam band’ in Wellington in the late 90s, the award-winning seven-piece Fat Freddy’s Drop is now internationally regarded as one of the world’s finest live acts.   Fat Freddy’s Drop, the New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, has an…