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Plays and playmaking, Mark Houlahan
Performing Dramaturgy Fiona Graham Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607648 Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell ISBN 9781988531076 Dawn Raids Oscar Kightley Playmarket, $18.00, ISBN 97809080607631 “What is a dramaturg?” I overheard that question earlier this year…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Fiona Graham, Issue 124, Lisa Warrington, Mark Houlahan, Oscar Kightley, Playmarket, Summer 2018
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Development journalism, Alex Perrottet
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific David Robie Little Island Press ISBN 9781877484254 It’s easy to read a book written by a journalist, especially if it covers wars, environmental disasters, independence struggles, and…
Tagged with: Alex Perrottet, David Robie, Issue 107, Little Island Press, Spring 2014
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Pacific art on the world stage, Ian Lochhead
Art in Oceania: A New History Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas (eds) Thames and Hudson, $130.00, ISBN 9780500239018 When New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened its landmark exhibition Arts of the South Seas in 1946, the war in…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Ian Lochhead, Issue 101, Nicholas Thomas, Peter Brunt, Thames and Hudson
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Erratic humanity, Roger Blackley
Nerli: An Italian Painter in the South Pacific Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $79.99, ISBN I869403355 According to the traditional mythology of New Zealand art, the annus mirabilis of 1890 heralds the arrival of professionalism and modernism in the figures…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Michael Dunn, Roger Blackley, Spring 2005
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
A spirit intense and rare, Doug Munro
Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings ed Roger Robinson Streamline, $34.95, ISBN 0958210624 Everyone knows about Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), described by a contemporary as “a spirit intense and rare” and immortalised by Samoans as Tusitala (the teller of…
Tagged with: Doug Munro, Issue 64, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson, Streamline, Summer 2003
Posted in Literature, Pacific, Review
Posted in Literature, Pacific, Review
Rediscovering the great white discoverer, Jock Phillips
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas Anne Salmond Allen Lane, $59.95, ISBN 0713996617 I will not forget reading Anne Salmond’s Two Worlds. I was on holiday at Tolaga Bay. Between walks to Cook’s Cove…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, Anne Salmond, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Wish you were here, Jane Westaway
On Blue Ice – A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica Kim Griggs Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869415760 Travels with my Mother Peter Calder Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877298093 The most memorable travel books don’t merely transport you to foreign parts,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Peter Calder, Random House, Tandem
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Art as survival, David Eggleton
Pacific Art Niu Sila: the Pacific Dimension of Contemporary New Zealand Arts ed Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira Te Papa Press,$49.95, ISBN 0909010838 Robert Louis Stevenson, writing about Samoan culture over a century ago, expressed it thus: No occasion…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, David Eggleton, Issue 57, Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, Te Papa Press
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Rain Queen, Judith Fyfe
Salote, Queen of Paradise Margaret Hixon Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877133787 The image of Queen Salote, in London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June 1953 – defiantly riding in an open coach in the pouring rain, and…
Tagged with: Issue 48, Judith Fyfe, June 2001, Margaret Hixon, Otago University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
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