For over 40 years, twin sisters Lynda and Jools Topp have performed as the joyfully anarchic and comedic country music duo The Topp Twins. Now 65, Dames Jools and Lynda Topp speak to Kim Hill about their rich lives in music and activism, living with cancer and the new memoir Untouchable Girls.
It's not every theatre show where the actors rug up their audience in blankets and give them something to munch on throughout the performance. But that's all part of the experience at Spark, a multisensory production by Auckland's Glass Ceiling Arts Collective. Their goal: To make the theatre as inviting and inclusive as possible for people with disabilities. And for one young actor with Down's Syndrome, it could be paving the way to stardom. Reporter Tom Taylor and camera operator Nick Monro have the story