Shared experience
Shared experience
For two Dunedin first-time playwrights seeing their plays on the stage at Dunedin’s Fringe Festival this year will be the end of a long journey — hopefully. Rebecca Fox talks to Kelly Hocking and...
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No place like home
No place like home
Australian Laura Davis is an award-winning stand-up comedienne and writer in her home country and critically acclaimed in the United Kingdom. Being caught up in Covid-19 travel restrictions has...
Globe goes back to the future
Globe goes back to the future
Sixty years after The Glass Menagerie was first performed at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre, it is being revisited. Rebecca Fox talks to director Joseph Cecchi and chairman Keith Scott.
Passion for flamenco life-changing
Passion for flamenco life-changing
A familiar face from our TV news and current affairs programmes, Ian Sinclair has always had a passion for flamenco guitar. He tells Rebecca Fox how Spanish guitar music has influenced his life.
Touching way to express art
Touching way to express art
Most students at some time have had the urge to tear up their study notes and texts but Karley Parker actually did it - in the name of art, of course.
Love and greed at heart of tale
Love and greed at heart of tale
Dunedin actor Peter Hayden has long wanted to work with top NZ director and choreographer Sara Brodie again, so the NZSO's production of The Soldier’s Tale was too good an opportunity to miss.
Nailing it on global stage
Nailing it on global stage
Otago's Anna Ross tells Rebecca Fox about her accidental path into the world of make-up.
Exhibition inspired by pandemic
Exhibition inspired by pandemic
This week’s sharp reminder of Covid-19’s unpredictability will have Dunedin artist Marie Strauss’ audience looking at her latest work with fresh eyes. Strauss explains to Rebecca Fox about the...
Home-grown talent takes centre stage
Home-grown talent takes centre stage
In a rare event, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra is dedicating a full concert to opera featuring home-grown talent with international credentials — Anna Leese and Simon O’Neill. Rebecca Fox...
Making it tasty on budget
Making it tasty on budget
Sophie Gray's message that you can eat tasty, healthy, fashionable food without it costing a fortune has always resonated.
Window on graphic interpretations
Window on graphic interpretations
This time last year, Jo St Baker was putting the final touches on her first New Zealand exhibition since returning to the country only to have it cancelled due to the Covid-19 lockdown. About to...
Surprises as dance develops
Surprises as dance develops
It has been six years since Matthew and Benedikte Onarheim-Smith danced together professionally, and they'll revisit and reinvigorate a work for the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Chef gives South a starring role
Chef gives South a starring role
Working in Dunedin’s first five-star hotel kitchen is a long way from Darren Smith’s days as a car painter. He tells Rebecca Fox about his journey.
Home at heart of festival
Home at heart of festival
New Dunedin Arts Festival director Charlie Unwin finally got to release his first programme this week. He tells Rebecca Fox about the highlights and lowlights.
Memories of ‘Blue Smoke’
Memories of ‘Blue Smoke’
Pixie Williams lived a "normal" life in Dunedin, having eschewed the trappings of showbiz that came with being New Zealand’s first recording artist. Rebecca Fox talks to producer and musician...
Delightfulness central to work
Delightfulness central to work
Dunedin artist and teacher Hannah Joynt is never short of an idea or enthusiasm to try new things - the challenge is to pace herself.
Artist draws on both sides of family
Artist draws on both sides of family
The birth of his fourth child during the Covid-19 lockdown and the death of a beloved mentor and friend made 2020 a year of both joy and sorrow for Auckland artist Jimmy James Kouratoras.
Busy year for performing arts
Busy year for performing arts
The arts sector is adapting to a "new normal" and will bring a variety of acts and performances to Dunedin stages this year. Rebecca Fox takes a look at what's planned for 2021.
Cancer journey documented
Cancer journey documented
As Eric Schusser and Annemarie Hope-Cross are both photographers and a couple they are in a unique position of being able to put on paper the journey many go through as sufferers and...
Covid-19 silences Dunedin voices
Covid-19 silences Dunedin voices
Many Dunedin-trained opera singers living in Europe are facing the toughest times of their lives. Rebecca Fox asks some how they are coping in a Covid-19 world.