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American Theatre, January, 2004 by Sampson, Benjamin W.
Wellington, New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL: Can't get enough of New Zealand from Lord of the Rings? Middle Earth becomes an Animal Farm when Singapore's Wild Rice company brings its searing adaptation of George Orwell's novel to Wellington. Canada's Peter Anderson finds The Overcoat doesn't make the man in Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling's staging of Gogol's mad classic. Favorite local scribe Roger Hall checks in again on the characters from his previous comedy Middle Age Spread and finds them Spreading Out. In what could only be called Kaboom, by Gait ...
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