Hannah Banks
Dr. Hannah Banks completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 2018. Her ground-breaking research explores women in devised theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is one of the founders of award-winning theatre company My Accomplice and was a recipient of The Richard Campion Accolade for Outstanding Performance at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards in Wellington in 2014. She also received a PGSA Postgraduate Teaching Award in 2017 for her work at Victoria. In 2020, Banks moved to Australia to take up a lecturing position in Theatre and Performance at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Everything By: Hannah Banks
Fantasy relationships with celebrities can actually be a form of self-care, writes Hannah Banks.
Hannah Banks sifts through the layers of Body Double
Hannah Banks reviews BATS Theatre's STAB production for 2017, Body Double, a fierce, exciting whirlwind of personal stories and semiotic discourse around sex and sexuality that doesn't always pull you in.
Jo Randerson and Thomas LaHood dig deep into the absurdity of gender performance; reviewer Hannah Banks joins them for the ride.
The First Time is a production of a new script by emerging playwright Courtney Rose Brown which won Highly Commended in Playmarket's Playwrights b425 Competition last year.
Hannah Banks reviews BATS PLAYS by Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden, and reflects on the importance of BATS in New Zealand theatre and the role of these two incredible playwrights.
Hannah Banks reviews The Biggest by Jamie McCaskill, the latest in a long line of New Zealand plays about Kiwi Blokes, premiering at The Hannah Playhouse.
Hannah Banks reviews LightShade's season of Caryl Churchill plays, a pair of literal interpretations that struggle to grasp at the magic of Churchill's writing.
A Slightly Isolated Dog’s new work Jekyll and Hyde builds on their previous work and a classical story and gives their audience the rare opportunity to truly play.
Using the training of Japanese Nō and Chinese Xiqu practices, The Water Station is a beautiful and compelling master class in simplicity.
