Review
Excerpt
Peter and the Wolf (2009) "Michael Hurst certainly relished his role as narrator, so much so it felt as though he was consciously restraining himself from prowling about the stage acting out each part. . . . it would have been nice to see the orchestra . . . perform with some of Hurst's sense of fun ". (Metro)
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| 2010 |
Documentary narration, Hidden Apartheid; director: Mandrika Rupa
Guest speaker (on Othello), year 13 students, Western Springs College (23 April)
Guest speaker (on Shakespeare), Ponsonby Probus Club (20 April) |
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| 2009 |
Guest performer, Sexy Recession Cabaret, TAPAC (13, 14, 18 December)
Guest
speaker, Pt. Chevalier Probus Club (13 December)
Guest
commentator on The Panel,
Radio New Zealand National (6 March, 8 May, 11 September, 16 November)
Actor, Silo Theatre 2010 Season Launch, ASB Theatre (11 November)
Celebrity reader at the launch of Jill Marshall's books Doghead and Kave Tina Rox at Auckland War Memorial Museum (1 November)
Guest
commentator on The Panel, Radio New Zealand National (September)
Celebrity presenter, Qantas Film and Television Awards 2009 (6 September)
Guest performer, Epsom Girls Grammar School Gala Auction (21 August)
Celebrity reader, Reading with the Stars, Celebrity Storytime, Epsom Community Library (25 July)
Host and guest artist, Sassy Songs and Sexy Shakespeare (benefit for Globe fellow Sylvia Rands), The Basement (19 July)
Guest
commentator on The Panel,
Radio New Zealand National (6 March, 8 May, September, 16 November)
Discussant on "Appointment" on Radio New Zealand Concert (on Shakespeare's sonnets; 29 April)
Reader for Shakespeare's Birthday celebration, Auckland City Library
Reader of short story "Parallel Universe" from the Charlotte Grimshaw collection Opportunity, Radio New Zealand National
Celebrity
guest, Armageddon Expo, Wellington
Celebrity
guest, Armageddon Expo, Christchurch
Interviewed
actors Melissa Madden Grey and Susan Prior, stars of Venus and Adonis, for AK09's "In Conversation" program
Narrator of Peter and the Wolf for New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, AK09
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Los Angeles, California |
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| 2008 |
Guest
reviewer of Steven Berkoff's One Man, on The
Arts on Sunday, Radio New Zealand National (19 October)
Narrator of documentary film The New Dance Group; Shirley Horrocks, director
Cabaret performer (with Jennifer Ward-Lealand) in "A Night in Berlin," to benefit Waiheke Art Gallery (25 July)
Guest speaker at conference Navigating the Textual Sea, New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English (10 July)
Host, New Zealand Institute of Architects 2008 Awards for Architecture Gala Dinner (24 May)
Guest
reviewer of One Man Star Wars Trilogy, The
Arts on Sunday, Radio New Zealand National (11 May)
Celebrity
guest, Creation Entertainment Grand Slam convention,
Burbank, California
Guest
commentator on The Panel, Radio New Zealand National (6 March, 8 May)
Guest performer, Celebrity Talent Quest, Silo Theatre (11 January)
Guest tutor for masterclass, Centre City Music Theatre 2008 Summer School (8 January) |
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| 2007 |
Celebrity
guest, "Eight Months to Mars", Afternoons,
Radio New Zealand National (26 November)
Workshop
in conjunction with exhibition "Making
Worlds",
Auckland Art Gallery
Celebrity
guest for Celebrity Times of Their Life presented
by the Con Artists improv group
Celebrity
debater, The Great Project K Celebrity Debate
2007, in Auckland and Wellington (moot: "That
We Need More Women on Top")
Guest
speaker, Aorangi Club; "Remarks on Theatre"
Guest
reviewer of Roger Hall's Who Wants to be 100, Radio New Zealand National (10 June)
Interviewed
composer, producer, creator of Music-Theatre
Heiner Goebbels for AK07's AK
in Conversation series
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist in "An Evening
with Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand", Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Burbank, California |
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| 2006 |
Recitation
of Mozart's letters in Boy Wonder with
Viva Voce Chamber Choir
Hosted
Q Theatre brand launch event
Performed
in Oxford
and Chambers on Wine,
Walker & Hall
Waiheke Art Award Members Gala Preview Event,
Waiheke Art Gallery
Lecturer,
"Inventing Shakespeare," University of
Auckland Faculty of Arts Shakespeare in Winter
lecture series
Speaker,
"Celebrating Twelfth Night" symposium, University
of Auckland English Department
Poetry
recitations, The Depot Artspace, Devonport
Auctioneer
for fundraiser to help send My
Brother and I are Porn Stars to Edinburgh
Fringe Festival
Guest artist,
Auckland On-Stage Exhibition Launch Programme,
Auckland City Libraries
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl's Grammar School Celebrity
Debate (moot: "That
We've Lost the Plot")
Guest
commentator on The Panel, Radio New Zealand National
(15
May,
26
June, 27 November)
Interviewer,
Directing Your First Feature: An Evening with Chris
Graham, Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand
Presented
"Remarks Concerning Theatre" to Probis and
U3A groups
Co-host,
Schwarzkopf Professional Awards Gala
MC
for Margaret Mahy's 70th Birthday Gala Dinner
Performed
Four Dramatic Poems with Improvised Music at One
Two One Cafe
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation Entertainment
Xena convention, Burbank, California |
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| 2005 |
Created
and performed a performance piece for the launch
event of the New Theatre Initiative
Poetry
recitation, The
Poem and the Partsong
with Viva Voce Chamber Choir
Guest
reviewer Moana and the Tribe, Radio New Zealand National (9 August)
Poetry
recitation, Auckland Art Gallery, In Response
to "A Tale to Tell: Victorian Narrative
Painting"
Guest
reviewer of J Borgeson, A Long, and D Singer's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Radio New Zealand National (12 May)
Guest
reviewer of Something Dark, Radio New Zealand National (6 April)
Performer,
AK05 Opening Celebration
MC
for Thrive Waikato
Speaker
at Screen Canterbury AGM |
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| 2004 |
MC
(as The Widow Twanky) for AK05 kick-off
Guest
artist, Christmas
in the Park
Guest
artist, Love Matiatia Concert
Wrote
book review of Gielgud's Letters for the Sunday
Star-Times
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl’s
Grammar School Celebrity Debate (moot: "That
She’ll
be Right") |
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| 2003 |
Guest
reviewer of Ladies Night, Radio New Zealand National (11 November)
Recitation
of Kubla Kahn for the Ellerslie Flower Show
Celebrity
guest, cabaret guest artist, and recipient of
Award for Best Guest Appearance, Cult TV Festival,
Weston-Super-Mare, UK
Celebrity
guest, Best of Both Worlds convention, Canberra,
Australia
Read
excerpts from Ulysses at
the Atomic Cafe on Bloomsday
Taught
Kids Workshop for the Auckland Art Gallery
Poetry
recitation
of E.E. Cummings Epithalamion with musical
accompaniment at Soundscapes
event
Read
from a book of letters of British artist Stanley
Spencer at the Auckland Art Gallery
Guest
reviewer of Amadeus, Radio New Zealand National (3 March)
Guest
reviewer of Blasted, Radio New Zealand National (27 February)
Panelist,
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival
MC
for New Zealand Leadership Forum dinner
MC
for the opening of the exhibition Suspended:
Six Glass Artists
MC
for Waitemata District Health Board Clinical
Achievement Awards |
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| 2002 |
Celebrity
guest and performer in Love Letters, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Pasadena, California
Celebrity
debater, Great
Western Springs College Celebrity Debate (moot: "That
Television is the Best Teacher")
Celebrity
debater, 11th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation/Massey
University (moot: "That
Politics is the Most Honourable Profession")
Participant on Sunday Morning, Radio New Zealand National (24 March) |
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| 2001 |
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Cult TV Festival,
Liverpool, UK
Celebrity
guest, Creation Entertainment Hercules and Xena convention,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Celebrity
debater, 10th Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore
Libraries Foundation (moot: "That We Are the
Champions")
Celebrity
guest and sole performer in cabaret "Night Music in Valley Forge," Creation
Entertainment Hercules and Xena convention, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania |
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| 2000 |
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl’s Grammar School Celebrity
Debate (moot: "That Life's Too Short for Trivial
Pursuits ")
Host,
Axis Awards Show
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation Entertainment
Hercules and
Xena convention, Pasadena, California
Celebrity
debater, 9th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
We Have Reached ‘The End of the
Golden Weather") |
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| 1999 |
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl’s Grammar School Celebrity
Debate (moot: "That Style is More Important
Than Sincerity")
Guest
artist, Starlight Symphony
Celebrity
debater, The Warhol Celebrity Debate, Auckland
Art Gallery (moot: "That the Warhol 15 Minutes
is Long Enough!")
Celebrity
debater, 8th Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore
Libraries Foundation (moot: "That
It is Better to Marry Than to Burn") |
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| 1998 |
Celebrity
debater, 7th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
You Can Judge a Book by its Cover")
Celebrity
guest, Construction-The 1998 National New
Zealand Science Fiction Convention, Wellington,
New Zealand |
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| 1997 |
Celebrity
guest, Creation Entertainment Hercules and Xena convention, San Francisco,
California
Celebrity
debater, 6th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
You Can’t Have It Both Ways") |
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| 1996 |
Guest
artist, Christmas in the Park
Celebrity
debater, 5th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
Where Ignorance is Bliss, ‘tis Folly
to be Wise") |
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| 1991 |
Reader, Accidents (short story by John Cranna), Radio New Zealand |
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| 1984 |
Damien (voice) in The Devil and the Corner Grocer (short story by Margaret Mahy), Radio New Zealand |
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