Category: People
Ahead of his upcoming performance in Pushing Boundaries, express sat down with Steven Logan, Principal Timpanist of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, which brings us The Rite of Spring — the centrepiece of the series, Rulebreakers. How did you choose what instrument you wanted to play? I’ve always thought of the timpani and percussion section as the […]
express talks to Nat Hugill — burlesque artist, drag king, actress, director and producer — ahead of her performance at the 2017 Hollywood Burlesque Festival. How long have you been performing as both your burlesque and drag king personas? Lilly Loca had her first stage debut in May 2009 at Miss La Vida’s Burly-Q Revue. […]
We chat with 23-year-old rising star, singer songwriter Alex de Vries, who last month, released his track Take Me For A Ride in a video featuring two male lovers. We love your video for Take Me For A Ride. What was your thought process in bringing it into creation? I just wanted to show something […]
We speak with acclaimed playwright, scriptwriter and journalist Victor Rodger about F.C.C, the theatre movement he’s leading, his upbringing plus his latest endeavours. What was your aspiration behind creating the F.C.C theatre movement? F.C.C stands for the Flow of energy, Creating platforms largely for Pasefika practitioners, and Connecting emerging practitioners with seasoned veterans. F.C.C has produced […]
BOYS, adapted from Greg McGee’s Foreskin’s Lament, is our state of the nation play about masculinity. Using contemporary material ranging from the Chiefs ‘stripper scandal’ to Wellington College’s recent online incident, award-winning theatre-makers Eleanor Bishop and Julia Croft and a group of sixteen young people from Auckland take New Zealand’s iconic locker room play and ask “what […]
For most, she is relatively unknown, but 24-year-old Courtney Perham, a young Kiwi designer, has a bright future ahead of her and she’s breaking all the gender norms to get there. express sat down with Perham to talk about her inspirations behind creating her own line and what it means to her to be breaking […]
We chat with Eli Matthewson, the little gay rock star of New Zealand comedy, ahead of his show in the 2017 New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Firstly, how did you come up with that magnificent title, The Year of Magical Fucking? I read a bunch of stupid articles about how millennials are having less sex […]
Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan will make history tomorrow, Saturday 1 April, as he is honoured at the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Since beginning his career with YouTube videos nearly a decade ago, Sivan has become a powerful voice in promoting equality. Now his work in the LGBT+ community has earned him a spot in history […]