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Bouquets and brickbats - Entertainment - NZ Herald News

26.05.13

A battle over minorities was centre-stage this year: gay people, disabled people, wimmin people and other Others - they/we were both celebrated and sneered at. Silo Theatre was the fantastic heavy-hitter in the left corner of this iPolitics theatre of war, coming out fast and funny with the star-laden feminist Top Girls , then Tribes (a beautiful delivery of a slightly undercooked script about deaf isolation), before moving on to the gay historical drama The Pride . This pointed troika was a bold piece of programming and Silo proved they had the production chops to pull it off, ensuring entertainment before earnestness.

Various minority reports also came in from Massive Company's upbeat true-story ensemble The Brave, while the Auckland Theatre Company (ATC) revival of A Frigate Bird Sings focused on the complications of life for a fa'afafine and her family. And Bruce Brown's 10-minute Boys' Outing was a sparkling diamond hidden under the Short+Sweet rug - one of the most adorable revelations of mutual attraction (gay or straight) I've ever seen, well played by young performers Graham Candy and Ryan Dulieu.

Source: New Zealand Herald