The following reviews have been added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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The following reviews have been added to theatreview.org.nz in the last week.

Theatreview is the New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory.

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Club Ivy, The Garden Club, 13B Dixon St, Wellington - CORPSE ON THE SIDE: Lots of talent in flawed fundraiser fun
- reviewed by Phoebe Smith

The premise of the piece is Trevor and Mia's two year anniversary party. As the audience arrive we are offered a free drink -which is delightful- and then talked to as 'guests' by circulating actors, as the characters, who are also guests, arrive.

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Telecom Playhouse Theatre, WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton - A PLACE TO STAND: RE-FRAMING THE BODY IN MOTION: Engaging films and a strong sense of ritual
- reviewed by Sue Cheesman

This show of experimental digital shorts and a performance held in Hamilton at the Telecom Playhouse theatre within the University of Waikato campus was highly engaging.

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Downstage Theatre, Wellington - THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND: A resounding Hound of ubiquitous obliquity
- reviewed by Sam Petard

To say we witnessed travesties last night would be to confuse the event with a later Stoppard play. Was this thing - if we can call it that, and I think on balance we can - the real thing?

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Downstage Theatre, Wellington - THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND: Alas for the heroes of 69
- reviewed by Rachel Underwood

Tom Stoppard's anarchic play purports to be a murder melodrama but really it's about the pretensions and personal preoccupations of critics.

Critical detachment is cast aside by the professionals for getting right into the action and - as is only fitting - getting shot for their pains.

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BATS, Wellington - THE HEIGHT OF THE EIFFEL TOWER: Talented actress in lightweight play
- reviewed by Laurie Atkinson

The 45 minute solo comic playlet, The Height of the Eiffel Tower by two Auckland actors, is theatre at it simplest. Only an actor and a chair are needed, though at Bats a rug and some lighting have been added.

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A bookshop near you,  - PLAYS FOR PHYSICAL THEATRE II: SIX PLAYS FOR YOUNG ADULTS, WITH PRODUCTION NOTES: A very practical and valuable resource for drama teachers and makers of theatre
- reviewed by Robert Gilbert

Angie Farrow is a multi award-winning theatre practitioner and educator. To her vast collection of teaching awards, she can add for 2010: the Massey University Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, the Manawatu campus Lecturer of the Year, and the National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award.

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A bookshop near you,  - TRANSITIONS, FOUR DECADES OF TOI WHAKAARI:NZ DRAMA SCHOOL: Wealth of detail makes fascinating reading
- reviewed by Ralph McAllister

We not only get a comprehensive, chronological and detailed account of the School and its place in our theatrical history, we get photographs and interviews and insights into the philosophies which have driven the six directors of the school in its first forty years.

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St Martin Hall, Nev., Dunedin - BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS: Intimate and focused
- reviewed by Barbara Frame

To Holly and Jonathan falling out of love, which seems to be happening, or losing your job, which could, are about the worst things that could happen. But Marta, the Argentinian sociobiologist they've hired to teach them tango dancing, knows that far, far worse things can happen to people.