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The Jekyll & Hyde cast: a scandalous game of who dunnit.

13 Mar 2016
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Jekyll & Hyde opens at Circa Two next week in time to heat up the fast approaching Autumn evenings. Five French clowns will be seducing your inner Hyde out to play. Here they reveal their most evil moments in a scandalous game of who dunnit. A truly guilt-ridden culprit takes...

Spotlight on… ANTHONY MCCARTEN

09 Mar 2016
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Circa Theatre is delighted to be hosting Anthony McCarten as we celebrate and remember such productions as Yellow Canary Mazurka, Via Satellite, Weed and F.I.L.T.H. Fun Facts  Anthony was born and raised in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Worked as a reporter for a couple of years on...

One Night Only…….Waves

03 Mar 2016
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The brave and adventurous of all ages will love Waves. Discover a tall tale of a girl at sea, in this enchanting evening of theatre. We know it as the “butterfly stroke” but to Elizabeth Moncello growing up on Australia’s Gabo Island in the 1930s it was the “dolphin”. So reveals...

Director’s Secret Diary: “ACB” Production Week

25 Feb 2016
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With opening night just around the corner we thought it would only be fair to release a sneak peek at all the hard work the cast and Crew of “The ACB with Honora Lee” were putting in. BEHIND THE SCENES! Saturday 20th Two crucial pieces of AV screen missing. Where are...

Who Are We Now? The show with a question as its name starts answering

19 Feb 2016
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Produced by Footnote New Zealand Dance Performed by ChoreoCo. Choreographed by Maria Dabrowska   This year is off to a busy and thrilling start for Footnote New Zealand Dance, and it’s about to get even more exciting as we look forward to opening Who Are We Now? at Circa on...

Blog 2. Legends of Merch.

09 Feb 2016
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Over the course of our creative collaboration, Geoff and I always try to make a quick buck by selling merchandise. It never works. For our first show, we minted commemorative teaspoons featuring my face and that of Helen Clark. We sold more than a dozen before they had to be...

From the Vine to the Table – The Wine Project Comes Home

31 Jan 2016
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The grapes have grown and been turned into wine twice since Charley, Tristan, Emma, Mikey, Sarah and I (Sacha the choreographer) began bringing The Wine Project to life. The grapes have been picked, crushed into juice, fermented and bottled for two vintages since we began and now...

2016 Programme Announced

22 Dec 2015
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2016 is a special year for us, as Circa Theatre celebrates 40 years as a champion of New Zealand Theatre.  We are relishing the chance to acknowledge the theatre makers, playwrights, directors and actors that have made our first 40 years such a joy. The beginning of our year will...

Ian Harman for Ache

10 Nov 2015
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Ache is well into its season and receiving excellent reviews! Many of the audience and reviewers have commented on the sleek design of set and costume by Ian Harman. Ian talks to us about his process, working on Ache and what else he has coming up. “The set on this production was...

Following your passion

30 Jun 2015
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This week in drama* on the waterfront, we hear from Scotty Cotter about a typical day in rehearsal of the beautiful ones – following your passion!       The rehearsal day normally starts at 9.30am, everybody comes in rugged up in clothing due to the cold weather that...

Commedia dell’arte

19 May 2015
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This week on drama* on the waterfront, Colleen McColl, publicist for A Servant to Two Masters, delves into the commedia dell’arte style of theatre Commedia dell’arte = ‘comedy of the profession’, ‘theatre of the professional’, ‘comedy of art’  One of the most interesting things...

Whitirea Students in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

23 Mar 2015
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This week on drama on the waterfront, Lyndee-Jane Rutherford and a selection of the students from Whitireia School of Performing Arts spill the beans on their experience rehearsing the joyfully boisterous murder mystery musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Q: What is it like...

Behind-the-scenes of The Demolition of the Century: a producer’s perspective

09 Feb 2015
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Show Pony’s Adrianne Roberts tells drama on the waterfront how she came to be involved with The Demolition of the Century. I first came to know of this little* book Duncan was writing back in 2012, when my husband read one of the first manuscripts to provide feedback. A few...

Demolition of the Recording

27 Jan 2015
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Musician Sean O’Brien (aka Joe Blossom) talks about Duncan Sarkies and The Demolition of the Century. In film, people talk of method actors. I think of Duncan Sarkies as a method writer. His prose is first person narrative and one of the ways he dials up the world through...

Composer Gareth Hobbs on the music in Seed

19 Jan 2015
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Seed opened at Circa Theatre over the weekend to a ‘rapturous reception’. Publicist Debbie Fish talks to musician Gareth Hobbs about creating the original score for the show.   DF: Where do you start, when you’re creating music for a show? GH: Generally I read the script and...

The Kitchen at the End of the World: ‘takes place in a surreal place somewhere between Samuel Beckett and C.S.Lewis!’

12 Jan 2015
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The Kitchen at the End of the World is set in an empty hotel on the edge of the Great Vastness, the unchartered lands beyond the stretch of marionettes’ strings. On a snowy evening, a poet, a mathematician and a musician find out that there is only one original song left...

Hikoi: then and now

23 Jun 2014
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The 70s and 80 was a formative time for Aotearoa with much going on politically and socially. In Hīkoi, and set against this backdrop, we meet two ordinary, extraordinary characters Charlie and Nellie who fall in love, have kids and endeavour to live happily ever after. And, as...

Equivocation: Shakespeare and Guy Fawkes. Its going to be a blast.

19 May 2014
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OPENS THIS WEEK!   Circa luminary Peter Hambleton returns from the core-cast of Sir Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT movie trilogy, to direct this extraordinary new American play by Bill Cain.EQUIVOCATION is an explosively funny, high-stakes thriller that will charm you,...

2b or nt 2b: our stories matter

12 May 2014
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More from the characters of the 1st Gear Productions youth theatre double bill … this week on drama on the waterfront, we get a peek at an online chat between Hamlet and Antigone of 2b or nt 2b.   Hamlet and Antigone chat online about their plans for the evening....

Back stage with Miss Bronte

03 Mar 2014
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  Miss Bronte is well underway with great reviews and audience feedback. Every night after the show there are groups of audience members congregating to discuss the play over a glass of wine. People are flicking through their memories to remember sections of Jan...
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