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Who Is Hyde?

07 Apr 2016
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Jekyll & Hyde 19 March – 16 April Circa Two   If you’re yet to get your sexy French fix, you still have until 16 April to let Jekyll & Hyde satisfy your darkest urges at Circa Two. Critics and audiences alike have been singing the praises of this “high-octane,...

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...

I’m ready for my close up now, Mrs. Clinton.

26 Jan 2016
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Like Bilbo Baggins, Hillary Clinton / Young Lover went on an unexpected journey last week. It became a film. Plot wise, it’s the sequel to the stage show – Richard Meros turns up at passport control of a US airport. Homeland Security learns that he’s trying to enter the U.S. to...

Ralph and Hannah

23 Sep 2015
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This week on drama* on the waterfront, we’re thrilled to have Ralph McCubbin Howell and Hannah Smith of Trick of the Light Theatre at Circa with their award-winning showThe Bookbinder. Tell us about The Bookbinder– what can audiences expect? The Bookbinder is a dark...

A Crazy Ride

28 May 2015
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This week on drama* on the waterfront, Director Kerryn Palmer talks about the crazy ride that is the Circa season of Second Afterlife. Second Afterlife a crazy ride!!!!! The Internet scares me. It baffles me with its endless infiltration into people’s lives. So much time is...

The Improvisors go to the Movies … with Tim Gordon

05 Aug 2014
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This week on drama on the waterfront, The Improvisors Artistic Director Tim Gordon talks about their next show at Circa, The Improvisors go to the Movies, opening on Sunday 10 August. DOTW: Many of the Improvisors work in the movie industry – what insights will this bring to the...

Constellations: buzzing towards opening night!

21 Jul 2014
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Constellations by Nick Payne is an award-winning play about free will and friendship, quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. The NZ Premiere opens at Circa Theatre in just one week on Saturday 26th July and runs until 23 August. Actors Erin Banks and Richard Dey and Director...

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: rich, potent and rewarding theatre, not to be missed.

09 Jun 2014
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EQUIVOCATION by Bill Cain, directed by Peter Hambleton is now mid-season and is “rich, potent and rewarding theatre, not to be missed.” Theatreview. With the show closing in only two weeks, now is the time to book in before it’s too late. This ‘bang-for-your-buck’ show has “a...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CON: “more twists than a JAFA sex scandal.”

04 Nov 2013
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CON producer Howard Taylor talks to drama on the waterfront about being conned and “spoilers”.   “When I first read Gavin McGibbon’s script for CON I was impressed with how smart and clever it is. Of course it immediately had me remembering the times I have...

CON: A world we never get to see

21 Oct 2013
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In this week’s post, CON playwright Gavin McGibbon tells drama on the waterfrontabout the inspiration for his new play, opening in Circa Two this weekend. I woke to a text. A strange text from my good buddy Brian saying “look I really can’t give you anything until next...

MIDSUMMER – “Laugh your way into wisdom” The Listener

07 Oct 2013
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Midsummer director Lyndee-Jane Rutherford talks to drama on the waterfront about her process for this delightful play (with songs).   Midsummer (a play with songs) by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre, is ON NOW in Circa Two. This modern gem, directed by Lyndee-Jane Rutherford...
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