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Theatresports 2014: half way through the season!

26 May 2014
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The NZ Comedy Festival may be over, but the glooms of winter are still being driven back by the flames of live comedy at Circa Theatre every Sunday night. The Improvisors are half-way through their season of Theatresports. It’s a format that many people will have seen – two teams...

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....

4 Billion Likes!: ‘for everyone, really’

05 May 2014
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The star of 4 Billion Likes! (one half of 1st Gear Productions’ youth theatre double feature), tells drama on the waterfront what to expect from her new show.   BLOG ENTRY MONDAY 5TH MAY 2014:   Hi! My name is Chloe Anderson and I live in Hamilton but am coming to...

Other Desert Cities: “impeccably-cast production”

28 Apr 2014
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This week on drama on the waterfront, we meet the cast of Other Desert Cities. “I so much enjoyed Baitz’s play … the twists and turns are carefully exploited as each character creates their own history with such insight. I’d like to tell you what unfolded because it was that...

Theatresports: fast paced and high on entertainment

23 Apr 2014
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Famed sports writer Guy McGuy sat down with The Improvisors’ Deana Elvins to talk weather, the interplay between theatre and sport, and her picks for the upcoming Theatresports season at Circa.   Guy:  So.  How about that weather? Deana: Mm… weathery Guy: I guess that’s the...

Rita and Douglas – from the beginning

15 Apr 2014
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Rita and Douglas playwright Dave Armstrong takes drama on the waterfront back to the beginning of this new work about two of New Zealand’s greatest cultural icons. Armstrong Creative’s production of Rita and Douglas will have its first-ever Wellington performance on April...

The Pianist: THE CIRCUS COMES TO CIRCA

14 Apr 2014
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“His show is a feast I would love to devour again and again”- Theatreview   He’s Bach! Well, not quite. Award-winning performer Thomas Monckton is back in Wellington with The Pianist and the countdown is on to opening night! Fresh from selling out across...

Other Desert Cities: A Family History Lush in Secrets

07 Apr 2014
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Jon Robin Baitz’s funny, fierce, and immensely entertaining Other Desert Cities was one of the hottest tickets in New York. Baitz, creator of hit TV series, Brothers & Sisters, took America by storm with his Broadway debut. Nominated for five Tony Awards, this award-winning...

Helen Moulder: ‘one of the gutsiest theatre artists around’

31 Mar 2014
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‘…received a standing ovation’ Laurie Atkinson, The Dominion Post ‘Helen Moulder as Gloria is a marvel’ Lucy Pickering, Keeping Up With NZ Helen Moulder has been described as one of the gutsiest theatre artists around, never afraid to try new things,...

Rita and Douglas – from the beginning

24 Mar 2014
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Rita and Douglas playwright Dave Armstrong takes drama on the waterfront back to the beginning of this new work about two of New Zealand’s greatest cultural icons. Armstrong Creative’s production of Rita and Douglas will have its first-ever Wellington performance on April...

Gloria’s Handbag Director Sue Rider

17 Mar 2014
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FROM SUE RIDER, Director & Co-writer of GLORIA’S HANDBAG  on being a director and working with Helen Moulder.   As a freelance theatre director I sometimes think I have the best occupation in the world. Only a few weeks ago I was in my own home city of Brisbane directing...

Pasefika: “You have to live here, you have to be one of us, to get it.”

10 Mar 2014
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  Award-winning playwright Stuart Hoar tells drama on the waterfront about how he came to write Pasefika. “This play was inspired by my coming across an image of a print from the nineteenth century by an artist I had never heard of before. The image was  mysterious,...

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...

Find out what the cast and crew think of Pasefika

17 Feb 2014
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This week on drama on the waterfront, meet the cast and hear from the designers of Pasefika, Circa’s show for the New Zealand Festival. From the cast George Henare Baudelaire/Te Rangi “Insane! I love it!” My immediate reaction on reading this wonderful, articulate romp...

A chat with Mel Dodge about Charlotte Bronte

10 Feb 2014
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Rehearsals for Miss Brontë are well underway and the whole team are finally united inWellington! Writer and performer Mel Dodge talks to publicist Debbie Fish about what inspired the creation of the show, working with Lyndee Jane Rutherford, and what Charlotte might have thought...

My Accomplice: HOW TO PUT ON A PLAY IN 11 EASY STEPS

03 Feb 2014
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Hi. We’re my accomplice. We are a local theatre company. We like to still consider ourselves young, even though we are four and a half years-old. People are always asking us how we make theatre. Where we get our ideas and resources. What our process is. So here we have assembled...

Behind-the-scenes with Kings of the Gym Stage Manager Oscar Mulheron.

27 Jan 2014
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Kings of the Gym Stage Manager Oscar Mulheron talks to drama on the waterfrontabout his accidental career, working with his uncle and the highs and lows of stage management.   DOTW: How did you get into Stage Management and what was the appeal? OM: I really fell into it by...

Becoming a playwright

13 Jan 2014
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Kings of the Gym playwright Dave Armstrong tells drama on the waterfront about how he became a professional playwright in New Zealand.   As a professional playwright, one of the questions I’m most commonly asked, apart from the ubiquitous ‘where do you get your ideas from’...

Mother Goose: On Writing a Panto

06 Jan 2014
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For the first blog post of 2014, Mother Goose playwright Michele Amas tells drama on the waterfront about her experience writing a pantomime.   On Writing a Panto By Michele Amas     I know from my experience as an actor that pantomime performers are extremely versatile, far...
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