| Season: 22 - 25 June 2011 Horst Buchholz and Other Stories By Matthew Wilkie Directed by Maria-Jane Scannell George and his friends enjoy taking part in their local pub quiz. They always bicker and never win. However, this time, for George, the stakes have been raised ... defeat is not an option. Cast: George - Phillip Lee Tim - Stephen Lefebvre Jules - Emily Martin Rich - Josh White Quiz Master - Ruth Savage Dead Man Talking By Deborah Makarios Directed by Colin McKinney and Aimee Borlase Setting: a flat in Mayfair, New Years Eve, 1928. A quirky murder mystery by a New Zealand playwright, in which things may not be not as they seem... Cast: Oscar - Danny Broom Denise - Rebecca Taylor Liana - Jayde Braxton James - Geoff Kendall Cupboard Love By Bev McConnell Directed by Mark O’Connell (In conjunction with Rangiora Players.) Two women meet while out jogging along the Esplanade. They strike up a friendship as they discover they have lots in common; a love of food, a desire to lose weight and both have a new man in their lives. Cast: Jane - Anya Galbraith Peggy - Elizabeth Fleming |  Two of the plays, "Horst Buchholz and Other Stories" and "Dead Man Talking" are entered in this year’s NZ Theatre Federation One Act Play Festival. “Dead Man Talking” was also presented as a reading last year at The Forge. “Cupboard Love” comes via Rangiora Players, following a season there in May. |
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Season: 1st Week 13 - 17 August 2007 Season: 2nd Week 20 - 24 August 2007 Hard Stuff (1st Week) By Jules Tasca Directed by Garry Thomas Two old friends and business partners are at a secluded cabin for a weekend of hunting, but one has other plans. He wants to find out if his best friend is having an affair with his wife. With a gun in his hand and menace in his voice he tries to get the answers...
The Play Reading (1st Week) By Joan Honey Directed by Deirdre Tucker Four members of a Women’s Institute drama group in search of a play find more than they bargained for in a 300-year-old haunted cottage and their oh-so-civilized hostess who is just a little spooky…. Second Week
Computer Pals (2nd Week) By Hindi Brooks Directed by Kris Vavasour A pair of desperately insecure computer geeks begin their virtual relationship with innocent falsehoods that soon stretch to outright lies. What happens when they finally meet? A comedy on the dangers of exaggerating the truth in Internet chat rooms...
Curses! Foiled Again (2nd Week) By Evelyn Hood Directed by Heather Giles Henry thinks he's written a potentially award-winning play for the pending Festival. Of course it's not, the script is total rubbish - a corny melodrama to boot and it's not very well cast. But is there a glimmer of sincerity by the actors for the script? Don't hold your breath! The whole thing is pretty dire, dripping with awful alliterations in the appalling dialogue (and that's just the cast members' personal comments!). The cast is far from committed, the last rehearsal is going to the dogs and the air is heavy with Henry's agitated angst. Oh dear, poor Henry!
Season: 20 - 29 April 2006 The Private War of Corporal Cooper and Chook Chook are both New Zealand plays by two well known writers. The Private War of Corporal Cooper By John Broughton Directed by Annette Thomson In The Private War of Corporal Cooper, we meet Sister Mary Bartholomew, a Catholic nun in 1914 New Zealand who is knitting socks for the war effort. She decides to put her name in one of them - they reach Corporal Cooper in France who writes back, a friendship is struck up, he doesn't know she is a nun. Poignant, spiritual and dramatic, a lovely play for the Easter/Anzac time of the year. Cast: Sister Mary Bartholemew - Vanessa Wells Corporal Cooper - Charlie Grubb Understudy - Jonathan Power Chook Chook By Fiona Farrell Directed by Annette Thomson Chook Chook is a hilarious look at life in a battery hen house. Valmai, an older chicken tries to tell Chrisssy that you just get on with things and don't think of roosters or the outside world. Bron arrives full of revolutionary vigour, Georgia has been in an experiment where she saw her own chickens and mated with roosters which she found all a bit of a bore. Half chicken, half women this play delighted those with a sense of the bizarre all whilst recognising their own lives in the process! Gallery Cast: Valmai - Erin Callanan Chrissy - Melanie Camp Georgia - Adele Wheeley Bron - Erin Hutchin Season: 21 – 24 July 1999 Watermelon Boats By Wendy MacLaughlin Directed by Tamzin Darragh Cast: Kitty - Joanna Stephens-Cockburn Kate - Samantha Boyce Another Noah By Barry Grant Directed by Barry Grant Cast: Richard - Alix Newman Director - Lynley McFaull Debs - Mary Image Everett - Chris McCallum Checkout Operator / Person 2 / Mary / Nurse - Leann Apps Supervisor 1 / Person 1 / John / Cardiologist - Kelvin Stevens Supervisor 2 / Cardiologist - Melinda Brown Old Lady / Cardiologist - Anna Chartris Ballot
By Tim Barcode Directed by Stephen Austin Cast: Ted - Alec Saunders Chris - Janette Dovey Barbara - Sara Beswick Graeme - Kirk Moore Peter - Paul Cowan Voters - Vanessa Scott Quentin - David Allen Candidates - Dena Cowan Season: 25 Nov - 5 Dec 1998
Season: 15 - 19 July 1998 Uncle Jimmy By James Stewart Directed by James Stewart A family drama that shows nothing should be taken for granted as not everything is what it seems. Cast: Jimmy Travis - James Stewart Daniel Travis - Chris McCallum Karen Travis - Mel Wood Gary Collins - John Hampton Robert Brook - Kelvin Stevens Police Officer - Jenn Brown No Clues at Tudor Close By Tim Barcode Directed by Katherine Coleman Children playing in a dim reality set the scene for a senseless murder. The occupants of Tudor Close must investigate and unmask the culprit - but no one can remember the victim. Some question the nature of their reality and existence, yet all are compelled onwards, toward the really shocking truth - and the fateful void. Cast: Colonel Mustard - John Boyce Reverend Green - Alix Newman Mrs White - Lucy Mannering Miss Scarlet - Janette Dovey Mrs Peacock - Lynley McFaull Professor Plum - Sarah Vivan Children - Miles Dalton, Stan Whittaker, Kate Coleman, Tim Wills, Trish Purcell Oh, Kaikoura!
By Barry Grant Directed by Barry Grant Cast: Man - Kelvin Stevens Molly - Debbie McAlpine Monty - Dave Armstrong Mother - Trish Purcell Maggie - Marilyn Ollett Season: 17 - 19 July 1997
Season: 5 - 7 August 1993
A joint season of plays with St Bede's Players (performing Jigsaw by Bruce Goodman) and The Christchurch Shakespeare Festival Trust (performing Secundus by Bruce Goodman) One Warrior's War Written and directed by Barry Grant Cast: Belinda - Julie Hopkirk Warwick - John Howden Beatrice - Liz Fay George - Maaka Rayner Ruth - Julie Armstrong Drummer - Peter Beswick Season: 22 - 25 July 1992
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