Last year Ruia Taitea Creative, the collective behind New Lynn's Te Pou Theatre, staged their Te Reo version of Briar Grace-Smith's Purapurawhetu. This week they're about to open a second New Zealand play which has been translated into Te Reo – Gary Henderson's psychological thriller, Mo and Jess Kill Susie, directed by Tainui Tukiwaho and translated by Ani-Piki Tuari, Hania Douglas, Te Aorere Pewhairangi...

Dance Like Everybody's Watching, directed by Alice Canton and Mouth Tongue Teeth, from Niu Wave Collective directed by Grace Taylor were staged as part of Auckland Theatre Company's Here and Now Festival during the weekend, alongside Boys. Kate Prior saw both works with Astrid, 14, who responds here.

Dance Like Everybody’s Watching

Dance Like Everyone’s Watching is a lovely, fun-filled production...

Charlotte Doyle discovers that no one can talk about Yvonne Todd’s work as well as the artist herself.

Yvonne Todd doesn’t really care if you don’t “get” her photographs. She doesn’t want to educate. Nor is she interested in overt associations. There’ll be no self-indulgent navel gazing, and answers are not guaranteed. She doesn’t want to make “decorative fluff”. What she does want is to entertain.

The renowned...