Standing Room Only for Sunday 27 March 2022

12:15 Adam NZ Play Awards announced 

First today it is a privilege on Standing Room Only to be announcing the winners of the Adam NZ Play Awards. Lynn is joined by Murray Lynch, the head of Playmarket that runs the awards.

She also talks to this year's big winner - Maraea Rakuraku, who won Best Play by a Woman Playwright, Best Play by a Māori Playwright, and the overall winner.for Best Play.  Her play 0204161007 looks at events that spanned a century, between 1916 and 2007. 

 

12:30 Murray Cammick's show goes on 

Photographer Murray Cammick's new exhibition The show must go on comes bristling with levels. It's the old showbiz dictum, of course - no matter what, go on and give them a show.  And these days that's harder - live venues have been hard hit by Covid, but many of the art galleries are hanging on.  What better time to revive inner-city life with photos of rock and roll's glory days? Simon Morris catches up with an old rocker. 

The show must go on, opens at the Photospace Gallery in Courtenay Place Wellington on April the 9th.
 

 

12:45 Whānau Mārama - the International Film Festival - returns in 2022

Whānau Mārama: the New Zealand International Film Festival has just announced it will return this year, though it's going to have to reduce the number of films and venues.  It's coming off the back of a challenging two years.  

The Film Festival was hit by a series of perfect storms - the closedown of half the country, two years in a row, and similar damage caused to the overseas festivals from where we draw many of our big films. There was also a new experimental, hybrid viewing system that struggled to replace the popular live party atmosphere we're used to at the Festival. 

This year the Film is under new - but hugely experienced - management.  Head of Programming Michael McDonnell has been there for 21 years.  Senior programmer Sandra Reid has been doing it for 28 years. So can the Festival rise again?  

General Manager Sally Woodfield joins Lynn and Simon to discuss her plans.

1:10 At The Movies

Simon Morris reviews one of the last films by the late director Roger Michell, as well as two others from directors at different stages in their journey. 

1:33 Hannah Upritchard: eccentric jewellery to spark joy 

A three month trip home to Christchurch from London to donate a kidney to her mother, has turned into a two year stay for expat jeweller Hannah Upritchard. But she's making the most of her time, creating new work from borrowed and found materials, exhibiting, and selling her jewellery on line including recently to one of her heroes, actor Tilda Swinton. She's also gained international attention after collaborating with Warren Ellis,  the owner of a famous piece of gum chewed by singer Nina Simone in 1999.   Hannah cast the precious gum and made it into a pendant. The self taught jeweller uses fair-trade or recycled materials where possible to create work she hopes will spark joy.

Hannah Upritchard's work will be seen as part of the upcoming AVID 30th anniversary show in Wellington. 
 

1:50 Francis Upritchard: Paper, Creature, Stone

Creatures from the distant past or visitors from another dimension? An arresting new exhibition from internationally renowned Kiwi artist Francis Upritchard features a range of human and animal forms made from balata rubber, a curious substance extracted from trees in Brazil. The new exhibition Paper, Creature, Stone also includes ceramic works, figurative sculptures and watercolours - all new pieces from Upritchard that will be on display from Saturday 2 April 2022 at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

2:06 The Laugh Track - Aaron Barber 

At a, shall we say "challenging", time for live comedy in this country, we occasionally have to hunt for a few silver linings, for evidence the glass is occasionally half full. In the last couple of years, our comedy glass has been half-full of visitors who found themselves staying a little longer in New Zealand than they initially planned. Aaron Barber is originally from Texas, though his adopted home is Malaysia.  But he's settled in nicely with his Fringe Tour show American Refugees and some popular MC  work. 

Aaron's picks for the Laugh Track include Sammy Davis Junior, Zainal Bostaman, Kyle Kenane, Ron White and Wanda Sykes.

2:25 Janet Charman: The Pistils 

 

Poems based on public holidays and significant days in our history are included in Pistils, the 9th collection by Janet Charman. 

There are deeply personal works touching on the death of her partner of 40 years, and many thinking back to her childhood and her parents.

But the winner of the 2008 Montana Book Award for Poetry also looks unflinchingly into the uncertain future. 

Pistils is published by Otago University Press. 

 

2:40 Lost in the Museum 

A boy's father goes missing while at Te Papa - but he's not missing in the building, he's lost in one of the museum's taonga. That's the premise for a new book called Lost in the Museum, a collaboration between the writer Victoria Cleal and illustrator Isobel Joy Te Aho-White. They join Lynn to discuss their approach to combining words and pictures. 

2:49 Chris Bryant Toi:  Te Ara Kahikatea

The depth and diversity of humankind's relationship with the natural world are explored in a new exhibition Nature Culture at MTG in Hawke's Bay.

Local artist Chris Bryant-Toi's work forms a cornerstone of the show. His approach to sculpture is as if to something living, a part of the environment it comes from. Chris also contributes to the preservation and growth of Māori art as an educator, curator and writer, and as a founding member of Te Taumata Art Gallery in Tamaki Mākaurau.

He credits his whānau - he's a descendant of master carver Hoani Ngatai, amongst many other artist, carvers and creators. His work for Nature Culture has its roots in Te Ara Kahikatea,  a public art installation of three eight-metre high sculptures, depicting the ancestral stories of the surrounding landscape and its people. 

 

3:06 Drama at 3 - The Redhead Gets the Gig

In our Drama slot today something a little different - it's Part One of the memoir of entertainer Linn Lorkin. Linn's talents as a pianist, singer, songwriter, actor - and linguist - took her from a farm near Tokoroa, and schooling in Otahuhu, to London in the Swinging Sixties. She has had residencies in Copenhagen, Naples and New York.  She's played festivals, piano bars, theatres and cabarets around the world - and back home in New Zealand.   Today's drama is part one of The Redhead Gets the Gig.
 

Music played in this show

Artist: Graham Brazier
Song:  No mystery
Composer:  Brazier
Album: Inside Out
Label:  Polygram
Played at: 12.16

Artist: Dolly Parton
Song: Coat of many colours
Composer:  Parton
Album: Coat of many colours
Label:  RCA
Played at: 12.42

Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Tangled up in blue
Composer: Dylan
Album: Greatest hits
Label: Columbia
Played at: 12.58

Artist: Kim Fowley
Song:  The trip
Composer:  Fowley
Album: Rock N Rolla
Label: Universal
Played at: 1.07

Artist:  Blondie
Song:   Hanging on the Telephone
Composer: Lee
Album:  Parallel Lines
Label: Capitol
Played at: 1.43

Artist: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Song:  Even the losers
Composer:  Petty
Album:  Greatest hits
Label: RCA
Played at:  1.58

Artist:  The Screaming Meemees
Song:  Sunday boys
Composer: creaming Meemees
Album: If this is Paradise I'll take the bag
Label: Propeller
Played at:  2.05

Artist: Tina Turner
Song:  Nutbush City limits
Composer: Turner
Album:  Tina Live in Europe
Label:  Capitol
Played at: 2.58

Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Song:  Spellbound
Composer: Severin
Album: Ju Ju
Label:  Polydor
Played at: 3.05

Artist: Bob Marley
Song:  Lively up yourself
Composer: Marley
Album:  Talkin' Blues
Label: Island
Played at:  3.58