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A screening of the cult film, featuring live actors also, as the front-screen ‘shadows’. Shadow show directed by Alexandra Ross

What is it that counts? The long run? Or the moment? Would you read a book in front of the author? Two people share a compartment on a train and discover there is more to the journey than the destination. Yasmina Reza’s 1995 play ‘The Unexpected Man’ reveals that, despite having separate trains of thought,...

It is 1899, Bob Godston, a boy from the ‘back blocks’ has been sent to board at Otago Boys’ High. He is co-opted by the weekly newspaper, The Otago Witness, to write a series of letters to its children’s column, ‘Dot’s Little Folk’. His letters, his life at school, and at home in the holidays,...

Noel Coward’s works are generally regarded as lighthearted and even frivolous. His play, “Still Life”, which is probably better known as “Brief Encounter”, the title of its film version, is an example of his more contemplative side. “Brief Encounter” tells the story of the year-long love affair between two people in their 30s, Laura and...

“Songbird” is a romantic comedy dealing with the age-old problem of ‘what to do when you find a Bride in your wardrobe’. Set in contemporary New Zealand, it deals with the great dramatic themes of Love, Marriage, what policemen do on their days off – and the “Sound of Music”. What would you do for...

The Middlemarch Singles Ball has been running for many years. Famous in New Zealand, and even overseas, it was initiated to help lonely Middlemarch farmers find wives. However, this year the committee has a problem. Tickets for the Ball have all been sold but, as the organisers discover to their horror, all the ‘singles’ who...

Winkie is a man-child, a forty-year old man with serious learning difficulties who thinks and behaves like a four-year old child. His only carer is his mother, his only environment his small, safe home. Then his mother dies and Winkie’s care becomes the responsibility of his sister and her less than sympathetic fiancé. Winkie’s story...

Lovepuke (written in 1993) is a hysterical take on the state of love and relationships in the contemporary urban setup. Lovepuke, by definition, is a rancid and fake form of affection. The play follows its characters in their desperate bid to find true love. 
The story is told from the perspective of Glen, a singleton...

Quorndon, the setting for this ‘Shakespeariment’, is a place a bit like the sea-side town of Brighton in England, small but [self]-important – and a Dukedom. But really it might be anywhere. The duke of this ‘dom’ is a reluctant one who is hoping to hand over the reigns of power to the man who...