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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...

Adventures in Pianoland

12 Oct 2015
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This week on drama* on the waterfront, we talk to the “irresistible” Jan Prestonabout her upcoming show Adventures in Pianoland.  Jan joins us at Circa for one weekend only!  Tickets are selling fast – book now to avoid missing this musical tour de force.  ...

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...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12 Aug 2015
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This week in drama* on the waterfront, we learn more about writer, doctor and spiritualist, and author of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. An Old Norfolk Saying… “And a dreadful thing from the cliff did spring, And its wild bark thrill’d...

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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

Playwright Lucas Hnath discusses Walt Disney, the Man and the Myth

15 Sep 2014
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This week on drama on the waterfront, we share a video of A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney playwright Lucas Hnath discussing all things Walt Disney, the Man and the Myth.     Interview recorded at a FEED event at Soho Rep. in...

Aroha White and 2080: a wave of creative productivity

17 Jun 2014
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Playwright and actor AROHA WHITE is currently riding a wave of creative productivity at Circa Theatre, having her new play 2080 in development as part of Tawata Productions’ MDF 2014 as well as performing in Hapai Productions’HIKOI!  We caught up with AROHA just over a week away...

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...

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,...

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...

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’...
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