A playwright, feeling an urgency to explore the complex feelings of love and guilt surrounding her relationship with her brother, imagines four characters to play out experiences that have shaped her life. Existing within her imagination are the expecting couple and two medical professionals. The couple ‘steaming with emotion’, contrast with the consultant and midwife...
All manner of magical goings on will break loose on the Globe stage on Thursday 24 July when Shakespeare’s most loved comedy begins a nine- performance season. The mortal world of Dukes and Amazons, young lovers, and of a group of ham-acting tradesmen collides with the fairy sphere ruled by King Oberon and Queen Titania....
Selfish, greedy, scheming, cruel, and unscrupulous – but charming when it suits her purposes — Lady Susan was the first of Austen’s ‘Women Behaving Badly’. She manipulates other people entirely in her own interest, revealing her thoughts and intentions in the many letters she writes to both victims and confidantes. Broadway producer Robert Moss created...
This sparkling comedy is the story of a group of senior history students in a second rate public school in pursuit of the most glittering of prizes, admission to the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. Terribly unruly but terrifically talented, the boys are preoccupied with study, sport and sex – but not necessarily in that...
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY, starting at 2pm. A unique opportunity to enjoy one of New Zealand’s most distinguished theatre practitioners regaling us with her life’s experiences. Fun, sadness and a bit of ‘near the bone’, along with snippets of beautiful music, cup cakes and a glass or two of mulled wine. Cheers! See you there.
Ensler’s 1996 play, a series of monologues given by different women, all relating to different aspects of women’s sexuality, has been performed and updated every year, in countless countries, and continues to engage/ enrage/ delight (depending on your point of view) every time.
Fifty years after this black comedy was written, it still packs a punch. Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series Applehurst, a district nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers. She is played by June Buckridge, who in real life is a gin-guzzling, cigar-chomping,...
1929. Sherriff’s play about life in the trenches in the First World War. This powerful play endures in the tradition of great drama because until wars are at an end, the human race will continue to question what our reaction should be to the cycle of killing and being killed in the name of foreign...
The last Middlemarch Singles Ball really stirred up the district. Now, a year on, planning is underway for the next one. The changes that have happened have affected everyone – especially the passing of the former committee chairman, Jack. His Auckland-raised widow Penelope has stepped into the breach, running the farm and joining the committee,...
Thursday 14th, 7.30pm; Saturday 16th 2pm – Selected Scenes Friday 15th, 7.30pm; Sunday 17th 2pm – A Christmas Carol (abridged) In 1824, two days after his twelfth birthday, and at the behest of his parents, Charles Dickens began working, to assist the family finances, in Warrens Blacking factory at 30 Hungerford Stairs, “a crazy tumbledown...
