A premiere season to acknowledge the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. This play follows the journey of three young Otago men from a warm summer day fishing by the Taieri River in the Maniototo to the cold and morbid horrors of the River Somme over the year 1917. Some experiences are shared, others...
Under Milk Wood will be presented as a rehearsed reading. This a play for voices, richly poetic and full of wry humour. Its setting is two-fold: its external landscape is the fictional Welsh fishing village of Llareggub; its interior landscape, the internal lives of Llaregubb's 69 inhabitants. These inhabitants voice their various hopes, fears and...
The Better half is a black comedy looking at relationships and morality. Written just prior to Noel cowards big break as a playwright, it touches on issues which are still taboo today, like infidelity and violence, while questioning the real meaning of honesty and truth. And, of course, the importance of correct costume!
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY. SUNDAY 20 AUGUST 2:00PM. KOHA ADMISSION. Our first in this series of readings, Counting Icebergs, was very well received with those attending staying on after the show chatting over afternoon tea. That is the convivial atmosphere that we like to see at the Globe! The second of our three rehearsed readings is...
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY. SUNDAY 16 JULY 2.00 PM. KOHA ADMISSION. The first of our three rehearsed readings takes place next month. This is a work by Australian playwright Frances Rouse. An elderly woman, once married to a famous explorer, seeks to find solace through his journals and selective memory. She believes that, with the passing...
Ex Otago rugby player and a member of the 1972 All Black touring side playing in Britain, Keith Murdoch is sent back to New Zealand amid a storm of controversy. He never came home. No one knew where he was or what had really happened. Some twenty years later a New Zealand journalist is given...
Directed by Louise Petherbridge, the Globe presents Richard Eyre’s recent and acclaimed adaptation of this Ibsen 1881 classic. Extraordinarily outspoken for its time, “Ghosts” was rejected by the late 19th century establishment. This was hardly surprising at it was its ideas and morals that Ibsen was questioning. Now it is regarded as one of his...
Directed by Leanne Byas, school holiday fun the young returns to the Globe. Kids hide your goodies because the chocolate robbers are loose! There is also a furry monster hiding somewhere in the theatre. Will you be the first to find it?
After a failed espionage attempt within the media empire of Messina, Don Pedro and company take some respite in a little family run newspaper office on the fringe of his empire. Upon their arrival Claudio falls for the fair Hero and nuptials are planned. Jane, Don Pedro’s bastard sister still licking her wounds from her...
