Sharon MazerSharon Mazer

Sharon Mazer is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in Te Ara Poutama, AUT's Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development. She is the author of Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle and I Have Loved Me a Man: The Life and Times of Mika.

Review: Colonial Combat reinvents colonisation as a level playing field

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Is there something to be learned from TVNZ’s Wild West-meets-WWE-meets-19th-century-New Zealand web series? After all, writes Sharon Mazer, colonisation, like professional wrestling, is a fixed match. The premise underlying TVNZ’s new web series Colonial Combat is anachronistic and preposterous, even by WWE standards. It’s also fascinating. Transported from American popular culture to New Zealand as … Read more