Brilliant Letters to Lindy a wake up call
8 Apr, 2021 09:14 PM
3 minutes to read
Reviewed by Mary Kippenberger
Take one brilliant script, one brilliant director, add four brilliant actors, mix in a brilliant support crew and you are bound for one brilliant piece of theatre.
Congratulations. Deep intake of breath. Wow.
Thirty minutes in and I realised I hadn t jotted a single note. Thirty minutes in the packed auditorium, we were as one, completely still, focused, immersed, aghast, no shuffling, no coughing, just complete immersion in this divisive story.
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Lisa-Jane Easter is one of New Zealand s finest directors. She honours her playwrights, she honours her actors. She has the phenomenal ability to make the smallest of suggestions resulting in the greatest of impacts. No matter how seasoned or gifted an actor you are Ms Easter is the catalyst through which you become your finest self. There were four finest selfs on stage this evening. We, as the audience, we