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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...

Yep, Still Got It! “In my shows, the songs come first.”

09 Mar 2015
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“YEP, STILL GOT IT!  PROVOKES LAUGHTER, STILLNESS, APPLAUSE AND CHEERS” – Theatreview This week on drama on the waterfront, Jane Keller, the star of Yep, Still Got It!, delves deep into her creative process and her long working relationship with Michael Nicholas...

The Pianist: “You may witness some fighting knee-nuns, a few seconds of bull-fighting, wine tasting, a trick that took two years to be able to do, and maybe some piano playing. Possibly….”

02 Mar 2015
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This week on drama on the waterfront, The Pianist co-creator and performer, Thomas Monckton talks about his hit show that has travelled the world and is now back for a return season at Circa. Tell us a little about your background – you trained as a clown? TM: Yes but that...

Zany caterpillars and the world’s most magnificent beard at NZ’s biggest arts festival for children

02 Mar 2015
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“One week left until the Festival begins and the opening performance, Caterpillars, is selling fast!” says an excited Capital E National Arts Festival producer, Melanie Hamilton. “And we were met with more exciting news when we got to the office this morning…”   Following a...

Grab a wine, grab a seat, and make sure you see Yep, Still Got It!”

23 Feb 2015
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This week on drama on the waterfront, co-writer Sandy Brewer talks about working with Jane Keller on Yep, Still Got It!   There is nothing quite as self-affirming as being able to look at yourself in the mirror and sayYep, Still Got It! So after her last 3 one woman shows,...

Wake Up Tomorrow: Chicken’s off the menu

17 Feb 2015
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This year as audiences embark on the journey of a lifetime with Wake Up Tomorrow, chicken or fish won’t be served. Chicken’s cut because the youth no longer want to play poultry, instead they’re guns blazing, more confident than ever before.   During the team’s newest...

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...

Red Riding Hood: ‘an entertaining show, filled with romance, comedy and drama’

05 Jan 2015
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  Red Riding Hood herself, Awhimai Fraser, talks to drama on the waterfront about the panto experience for the first post of 2015!   There is nothing more rewarding than watching a young child trying to tell you out of pure desperation that there is “a wolf behind you”...

Seed: “it’s entertaining, pure and simple”

02 Jan 2015
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Playwright Elisabeth Easther shares her thoughts about how Seed came about and what it’s like watching her writing performed on stage. I started Seed as a novel; a couple of years ago I’d had a couple of miscarriages and the next thing I knew I was on the merry go round ...

Happy Holidays from Circa Theatre!

15 Dec 2014
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Circa Theatre would like to wish a very Happy Holidays and all the best in the New Year to all of our patrons, sponsors, artists, donors and stakeholders who have supported us throughout the year!   Red Riding Hood and Dead Tragic run until 21 December – performances...

Meet the cast of Red Riding Hood

01 Dec 2014
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The Dominion Post called it “A FULL-ON, HIGH ENERGY, THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE ROMP!” So who are the super-talented people making this happen?  Meet the cast of Roger Hall’s RED RIDING HOOD The Pantomime ….   Awhimai Fraser (Red Riding Hood) (Sandy in Grease, Hairspray)  ...

“Who would have thought singing old pop songs about people dying could be so entertaining?!”

01 Dec 2014
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This week on drama on the waterfront, Dead Tragic cast member Darren Young tells us about his history with this variety show of woe. The original Dead Tragic came about following the unexpected demise of the NZ tour of the musical Aunt Daisy. I was one of several cast members to...

2014 at Circa Theatre!

24 Nov 2014
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We are nearing the end of the year and are just about to launch our programme for 2015 (on 7 December at the Thorndon Fair), so we thought it was time to take a look back at all of the fantastic shows that have graced our stages throughout 2014. It’s been a great year! As...

Dead Tragic: “If it’s half as much fun to watch as it is to perform, you’re going to have a great night.”

17 Nov 2014
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Dead Tragic creator Michael Nicholas Williams tells drama on the waterfront all about his next show at Circa, opening in Circa Two on 22 November. DOTW: I understand Dead Tragic arose from vocal warm ups?  MNW: I used to bring in songbooks for a sing-along after we’d warmed...

The Grand Dame of the Circa Pantomime

10 Nov 2014
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This week on drama on the waterfront, Gavin Rutherford, who will don the dress for the 5th time this year as Grandma Hood in Red Riding Hood, takes us down memory lane of his time as Dame. This year for the famous Circa Christmas Pantomime, we are remounting Roger Hall’s Red...

Join us for the 20th Anniversary Celebration of our waterfront building!

03 Nov 2014
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On 5 November, 1994, the new Circa building on the waterfront opened with a performance of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. This year, we’re celebrating 20 years of fantastic theatre in this building with a night of brilliant theatre followed by a glass of bubbly while watching...

The most delicious villain

27 Oct 2014
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Isaac’s Eye actor Todd Rippon tells drama on the waterfront about playing ‘the most delicious villain’, Isaac Newton’s rival Robert Hooke. The last time I performed in a show at Circa Theatre it was A Comedy of Errors in 1992, back in the old brick...
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