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You can't miss this uplifting exploration of queer trauma
Theatre review

You can't miss this uplifting exploration of queer trauma

My Auckland Pride adventure continues! The Clitoris Conundrum enjoyed a sold-out season for its 2024 debut. This refined 2026 work appears destined for the same fate.
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Mark Darbyshire
ANITO: visceral perfection
Theatre review

ANITO: visceral perfection

For two more nights only, Auckland can witness the thrilling rawness of this queer indigenous work.
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Mark Darbyshire
An evocative queer Lear reimagining
Theatre review

An evocative queer Lear reimagining

This production propels us not into the distant Celtic past of Britain, but to an impending dystopian future. Thankfully, queerness is normal in 2125.
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Mark Darbyshire
A sizzling spectacle of contrast and transformation
Theatre review

A sizzling spectacle of contrast and transformation

What a treat! I've never felt theatre so viscerally and physically as I felt this.
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Mark Darbyshire
This show breaks plates but heals my heart
Theatre review

This show breaks plates but heals my heart

I have never been so deeply moved by a piece of theatre. "Breaking Plates" deserves to be seen far and wide. It is a story for the ages – a perfect modern-day fairy tale!
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Mark Darbyshire
Leaving a Revival church is hard, but it’s worth it
Religion

Leaving a Revival church is hard, but it’s worth it

Six years ago I left the reclusive church I was raised in and stepped into a world of possibility. Here is what I learned along the way.
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Mark Darbyshire
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