{"id":73524,"date":"2023-02-26T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/review-wheel-head-summer-at-q\/"},"modified":"2023-02-26T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:14:26","slug":"review-wheel-head-summer-at-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/review-wheel-head-summer-at-q\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Wheel Head (Summer at Q)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theatrescenes.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/wheelhead-678x381.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"wheelhead\"\/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/button.js?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatrescenes.co.nz%2Freview-wheel-head-summer-at-q%2F&amp;style=normal\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>[What\u2019s Your Bus Number?]<\/h3>\n<p>Absurd, playful, and freshly imagined. Co Theatre Physical have as soon as once more produced an comedic and engrossing piece. Mixing bodily theatre, up to date transport woes, dwell music, and lightweight viewers interplay, <em>Wheel Head<\/em>, written by Beth Kayes in collaboration with Katie Burson,\u00a0 is a stunning and charming 50 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are launched to Joanna (Katie Burson), Aucklander and Birder extraordinaire, who finds one morning her automotive has been stolen and dumped some 4 kilometres away from her house. How will she get to work on this tremendous metropolis that&#8217;s T\u0101maki Makaurau ? Cue catastrophe after ill-fated catastrophe as she tries to navigate the opposite supposedly viable technique of transporting oneself about our metropolis (strolling, biking, public transport).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The work is temporally sure to a day in Joanna\u2019s life and her world is replete with acquainted feeling characters\u2013 her impatient and detached boss (Beth Kayes), the guy Bird fanatic and rabid environmentalist \u2018French Greenie\u2019 (Lucas Haugh), a bumbling, tennis taking part in, mayor (Beth Kayes) \u2013in addition to some much less acquainted characters together with a slinky Wheel Head battling empathy on the job (Beth Kayes) and T\u016b\u012b an anthropomorphic chicken girl with youngsters to boost and rats to combat (Irasa Si\u2019ave).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Si\u2019ave\u2019s T\u016b\u012b is a revelation. With Si\u2019ave\u2019s intensive Commedia dell\u2019Arte coaching it&#8217;s little surprise that this T\u016b\u012b is so completely pitched and the physicality is so gratifyingly truthful. This is a personality that should seem on our levels once more and will properly change into a inventory character in her personal proper.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On prime of the assorted hilarious programs of motion completely different characters take, the jokes are so recent that there a way that this piece has organically sprung up on account of all of the current rain and that it&#8217;s the energy of the performers that give the work the polished execution that may normally belie a brief growth interval.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The work is strongest when Lucas Haugh\u2019s musical accompaniment lends the motion\u00a0punchy rhythms or the blaring of a horn. Adding to the world created by the paraphernalia of biking and a few playful exaggeration of the scale of props, Michael Goodwin\u2019s lighting design efficiently shapes the expansive of Q\u2019s Loft stage into separate areas and creates the feeling of the completely different liminal areas Joanna inhabits throughout her day of journey. A very satisfying impact forged a design throughout the stage which mimicked each the shadow of overlapping tree branches and that forged by mild shining via the spokes of a bicycle wheel.<\/p>\n<p>As Bar-Tailed Godwits, deconstructed bicycles, and orange street cones swirl in regards to the stage, jokes are nimbly laid right down to resurface later to renewed laughter. <em>Wheel Head<\/em> in the end arrives at a satisfying and round conclusion regardless of the various transferring elements and the quick runtime. Even trying to recount the occasions of <em>Wheel Head<\/em> ends in laughter. This pleasant present was to not be missed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qtheatre.co.nz\/shows\/wheel-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wheel Head<\/strong><\/a><strong> performs the Loft at Q Theatre 22<\/strong><strong><sup>nd<\/sup><\/strong><strong> \u2013 25<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><strong> of February 2023.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] [What\u2019s Your Bus Number?] Absurd, playful, and freshly imagined. Co Theatre Physical have as soon as once more produced an comedic and engrossing piece. Mixing bodily theatre, up to date transport woes, dwell music, and lightweight viewers interplay, Wheel Head, written by Beth Kayes in collaboration with Katie Burson,\u00a0 is a stunning and charming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}