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This very different play, which has been described as being funny and extremely powerful, tells the story of four individuals (Bunny, Oz, Julia and Robin), all former mental health patients, who have recently been released from a psychiatric hospital into a ‘Care in the Community’ scheme — an early-release programme for such patients. They live...

This play, which was first performed in 1675 to much acclaim, was considered later to be so bawdy that it was not performed in its original version until the 1920s. The play has several subplots but mainly focuses on the intrigues of Mr Horner, a man about town who enjoys the favours of many a...

This classic of the Australian theatre was written and set in 1950s Australia, in a slightly down at heel Melbourne suburb where four women wait for the annual return from the sugar cane fields of two men, Roo and Barney, for the five month summer lay-off period. For 16 years previously the two men have...

The Globe is delighted to have the opportunity to stage the premiere production of Emily Duncan’s latest play, which is set in Central Otago in the mid 1990s. Ron Pederson is a World War II veteran who has lost his wife and is estranged from his adult daughter. He has an unconventional relationship with his...

“It’s like King Lear, only happier … and more complete.” First performed in 1611, The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s later plays. Indeed, it seems to return to the themes of Lear – madness, revenge, love, betrayal, exile, and grief – but allows its protagonist to complete his journey. A short synopsis for the...

Pinter’s play was first produced in London in 1971 and has been performed many times and in many countries since. Indeed, many of Pinter’s plays are being staged around the world at the present time as a new generation of theatregoers encounters the intriguing complexities of his characters and the lives they live (or may...

Proof is the powerful and compelling story of a young woman haunted by her father’s legacy of genius, and madness. Catherine has spent years caring for her father, a celebrated mathematical genius whose life and career are cut short by mental illness. She struggles with the mathematical talent she has inherited from her father, as...

This is a New Zealand classic, the play that jump-started the theatrical career of Roger Hall. He created characters whom we recognized, who spoke like us and behaved like us – but who made us laugh at the same time that they made us wince or weep. Glide Time, which was written in the late...

A black comedy whose central character is a man who has willed that his body be frozen after his death. When he does die, his wife finds comfort elsewhere only to find that death is not the end.

The Road To Mecca tells the essentially true story of Miss Helen, an elderly woman who lived in obscurity in the small, conservative community of New Bethesda, close to the harsh landscape of the Great Karoo in South Africa. Here, after the death of her husband, she was inspired to undertake her true life’s work,...