Our next stage production
A Skull in Connemara by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.
March 10th - 21st 2020
“A dark and macabre Irish comedy that will have the audience laughing at things that, maybe they shouldn’t laugh at . . . . . “
Despite the fact that he saw his wife die at the wheel of their car, Mick Dowd coped with the inquests and can live with the persistent local rumours.
But Mick is also the local grave digger and, when the village graveyard is full, he is the one who has to dig to make room for the new tenants. The trouble is, this time, more than old bones come to the surface.
March 10th - 21st 2020
“A dark and macabre Irish comedy that will have the audience laughing at things that, maybe they shouldn’t laugh at . . . . . “
Despite the fact that he saw his wife die at the wheel of their car, Mick Dowd coped with the inquests and can live with the persistent local rumours.
But Mick is also the local grave digger and, when the village graveyard is full, he is the one who has to dig to make room for the new tenants. The trouble is, this time, more than old bones come to the surface.
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Some of our plays for 2020 have now been selected.
We will open with A Skull in Connemara by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.
“A dark and macabre Irish comedy that will have the audience laughing at things that, maybe they shouldn’t laugh at . . . . . “
Despite the fact that he saw his wife die at the wheel of their car, Mick Dowd coped with the inquests and can live with the persistent local rumours.
But Mick is also the local grave digger and, when the village graveyard is full, he is the one who has to dig to make room for the new tenants. The trouble is, this time, more than old bones come to the surface.
Director Paul Roukchan will hold auditions in the theatre on Sunday, December 1 at 1.30pm, and the season is March 10th - 21st.
The second play of 2020 is Waiting for God, from the television series of same name but rewritten for the stage by the original playwright Michael Aitkens.
Feisty resthome resident Diana Trent is always looking for ways to outwit the conniving home manager and his put-upon assistant. Diana finds an ally when kindly Tom Ballard arrives in the home.
This is a gentle comedy, but there are harsh truths here too. How else can sentient beings cope with the sometimes misery of penny-pinching ‘elder care’?
Director Bob Lack will hold auditions in the theatre on March 24th at 7.30pm, with the season running from June 2nd- 13th.
The third play of 2020 is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Director: Liz Watkinson
Season: August 18–29
Although it is celebrated as Tennessee Williams’ best play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is rarely produced.
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the overtures of his wife Maggie (the Cat). The family is ordered to gather for Big Daddy’s birthday celebrations, but the reunion jogs a host of memories and recriminations for all concerned.
Auditions: June 14, 1.30pm, in the theatre. Three women, five men.
The Titirangi Theatre Drama Classes Show
Tutor: John Goudge
On stage: September 24-26.
The three groups of 2020 students, junior, intermediate and senior, present for your theatre pleasure a show of their own devising.
It will showcase the skills the students have developed during the year, both onstage and off, and celebrate all that they have come to love about theatre.
And we will celebrate the end of 2020 with a pantomime, Jack and the Giant Kauri Tree, currently a work in progress by authors Kerynn Walsh and Ella Bernstone. The script incorporates kauri trees and rangers and chickens and roundabouts and all sorts of other Titirangi-isms that local audiences will love. The director is yet to be appointed and audition dates set, but the season will run from November 17th - 28th, 2020.
John Goudge Drama Classes at Titirangi Theatre
Click here for full details.
Explore the craft of acting in a fun, supportive environment. Each week the class improves skills for voice, characterisation, script reading and performance with 'tried & true' exercises as well as intuitive steps honed over 20 years of teaching.
Classes are directed at developing tools needed to perform on the amateur or professional stage, or in film and TV. Side-benefits include an increase in confidence, vocal clarity, and a sense of fun.
The last week of every course is always a performance by the students at the theatre, with an invited audience of family and friends.
As a tutor since 1995, hundreds of adults and children have been through John Goudge’s fun and effective courses, including at Rimu Glade Studio, his own drama and music studio in Oratia.
He is often invited into schools, theatres and other institutions to run workshops, direct shows or help with production. He has been an actor or director for Titirangi Theatre many times, most recently as director for the sell-out season of Fawlty Towers.
Click here for full details.
Explore the craft of acting in a fun, supportive environment. Each week the class improves skills for voice, characterisation, script reading and performance with 'tried & true' exercises as well as intuitive steps honed over 20 years of teaching.
Classes are directed at developing tools needed to perform on the amateur or professional stage, or in film and TV. Side-benefits include an increase in confidence, vocal clarity, and a sense of fun.
The last week of every course is always a performance by the students at the theatre, with an invited audience of family and friends.
As a tutor since 1995, hundreds of adults and children have been through John Goudge’s fun and effective courses, including at Rimu Glade Studio, his own drama and music studio in Oratia.
He is often invited into schools, theatres and other institutions to run workshops, direct shows or help with production. He has been an actor or director for Titirangi Theatre many times, most recently as director for the sell-out season of Fawlty Towers.
A Message from Bright Lights Little Village:
Hello
I am contacting you on behalf of Bright Lights Little Village which manages the annual GLOW Festival at Titirangi Village each Christmas.
You may be aware of the GLOW Festival where we hold a concert and have street performers attracting locals of all ages. The businesses in the village are then lit up for the festive season.
I thought you may be able to offer some suggestions or contacts for artists who may be happy to perform at our concert or for street entertainment throughout the evening. Whilst this is a charitable function we fund raise in order to have the funds to make a contribution to artists happy to join us.
We are also seeking an MC for the evening.
Any ideas or contacts you are able to supply would be much appreciated. If you feel there is someone else I should approach please advise.
Thank you for your consideration. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Contact: Hilda Bethune
Hello
I am contacting you on behalf of Bright Lights Little Village which manages the annual GLOW Festival at Titirangi Village each Christmas.
You may be aware of the GLOW Festival where we hold a concert and have street performers attracting locals of all ages. The businesses in the village are then lit up for the festive season.
I thought you may be able to offer some suggestions or contacts for artists who may be happy to perform at our concert or for street entertainment throughout the evening. Whilst this is a charitable function we fund raise in order to have the funds to make a contribution to artists happy to join us.
We are also seeking an MC for the evening.
Any ideas or contacts you are able to supply would be much appreciated. If you feel there is someone else I should approach please advise.
Thank you for your consideration. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Contact: Hilda Bethune
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