Craig Hoyle

Aug 6, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Craig Hoyle |Leslie Jones |Steven Veerapen |Clara Batten

A cast photo from a production of A Christmas Carol by Levin Little Theatre. Leala Faleseuga is the digital inclusion co-ordinator at Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō Levin Library. Last week, myself and my fellow librarian Kiri found ourselves crawling on all fours, in semi-darkness, under the Levin Little Theatre.

Sep 30, 2023 | stuff.co.nz | Craig Hoyle

National voters mostly dislike New Zealand First, new survey results show, in a warning sign of the difficulties Christopher Luxon could face building a coalition with Winston Peters. The Politics and (Mental) Health State of the Nation Survey - which Stuff is asking readers to take part in - is shedding light on Aotearoa’s political habits and attitudes.

Sep 23, 2023 | thepost.co.nz | Craig Hoyle

When it comes to working from home, just 11% of Kiwis work only from home. UnsplashACT and Greens supporters are more likely to work from home, and very few Kiwis like smooth peanut butter. But why? As responses roll in on The Politics and (Mental) Health State of the Nation Survey - which the Sunday Star-Times is asking readers to take part in - Aotearoa’s habits and attitudes are beginning to be revealed.

Sep 2, 2023 | stuff.co.nz | Craig Hoyle

The key to playing someone who’s “awful”, says actor Sarah Peirse, is to temporarily put your own beliefs aside. “When you play ugly people, or compromised or dark people, you need to be able to find a way in,” she tells the Sunday Star-Times. “You can’t judge the character.” It would be easy enough to judge Patricia Highsmith - the formidable American writer whose story seeds the fast-paced psychological stage thriller Switzerland with an anchor of truth.

Aug 12, 2023 | stuff.co.nz | Craig Hoyle

For Stuart Marsden, running a restaurant without meat came as a steep learning curve. “When I first started, I was thinking oh, what about fish sauce? What about oyster sauce? What about shrimp paste?” says the executive chef at East Restaurant, which is attached to Auckland’s Sudima Hotel. The trick, he soon discovered, is “all in how you adjust your seasonings”; now, he says, it’s quite hard to pick the difference between vegetarian fish sauce or regular fish sauce.