A former ballet dancer now restricted to a wheelchair, a mysterious soldier, a conductor of a small orchestra and a young lady susceptible to suggestion explore the themes of homosexuality , gender roles, dress ups, physical disability, spontaneity and venetian blinds.
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Balance of Payments
A macabre farce about a mother and father who live off the immoral earnings of their son, whose clients are disposed of by the mother. This is the tale of a far from conventional family in their cluttered household. Join them as they work together to disguise the son’s dirty deeds and ask the big...
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Taking Off
This poignant, funny, sensitive play follows four Kiwi women who are given a new lease on life as they head off to the other side of the world. Frankie wins second division Lotto and decides to leave her boring husband.
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The Bard: Beautiful, Bold and Bawdy
In a fast moving tour de force, 20 actors present an evening of scenes from 14 plays to showcase how Shakespeare connected, or disconnected people. Couples fall in love, fight against it, destroy those about them, or each other. Fathers are fools before their daughters. Sons mock their mothers. This show is a not to...
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The Vagina Monologues – Ranfurly
Following a sell-out season in 2014 The Vagina Monologues returns for two performances only in 2015. This all women show is a series of monologues relating to varying aspects of women’s sexuality. It is bold theatre, engaging, and at times confronting. The play breaks taboos, stripping away fear and shame. The women are blunt, funny,...
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The Vagina Monologues – Dunedin
Following a sell-out season in 2014 The Vagina Monologues returns for two performances only in 2015. This all women show is a series of monologues relating to varying aspects of women’s sexuality. It is bold theatre, engaging, and at times confronting. The play breaks taboos, stripping away fear and shame. The women are blunt, funny,...
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Verdict
A joint production with The Dunedin Repertory Society, staged at The Playhouse. Karl Hendryk, a brilliant professor who, with his wife and her cousin, have fled persecution in their country. The professor is contentedly ensconced in a British university, where he is respected by students and faculty alike. His wife, Anya, an invalid suffering from...
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Tin Can Tourists! Drifters and Dreamers.
The people of the high country come to town. Through their own words, poetry, yarns and songs, Keith Scott presents the story of the ordinary folk of old Otago – the poets, not the politicians, the poor not the privileged – who made this special part of New Zealand our “heartland”.
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Labour Weekend Gala Fundraiser
Our final fundraiser to be held in the theatre for 2014 is a delightful programme of drama, music and literature. It will feature a new one act play written by Brian Bell, Question and Answer, commissioned and directed by Louise Petherbridge and performed by Glenys Whittington, with songs sung by Glenys Whittington accompanied by Brian...
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1917: One Story, One Year, One Great War
In January 1917 three friends leave for war. At times humorous, but deeply moving, and always engaging, theirs is a journey from the banks of the Taieri River to the horrors of Paschendaele. They have three different, reasons for going, but they go as mates together. However by December 1917 their story has had three...