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Shirley’s children are grown up and she frequently talks to the wall in her kitchen while preparing her husband’s regular evening meal of egg and chips.
Shirley feels stuck in a rut and finds solace in her daily glass of wine as she muses over the lack of excitement in her life.
When her best friend asks her to go to Greece with her for 2 weeks, Shirley jumps at the chance with a mix of exhilaration and jittery nerves. Leaving a note for her husband that simply reads “Gone to Greece--Back in two weeks”, Shirley leaves for her holiday.
While relaxing on holiday, she rediscovers the woman she used to be and the happiness that she has been missing. Shirley embarks on a passionate affair with Costas, a local Greek man, and realizes that there is more to life than the dull, mundane existence she leads back home in Liverpool.
Making a radical decision, she leaves her friend at the airport and goes back to the hotel she has been staying at to ask for a job.
Finally, she is living the life she has dreamed of and rediscovered the self-confidence she has lost.
Shirley feels stuck in a rut and finds solace in her daily glass of wine as she muses over the lack of excitement in her life.
When her best friend asks her to go to Greece with her for 2 weeks, Shirley jumps at the chance with a mix of exhilaration and jittery nerves. Leaving a note for her husband that simply reads “Gone to Greece--Back in two weeks”, Shirley leaves for her holiday.
While relaxing on holiday, she rediscovers the woman she used to be and the happiness that she has been missing. Shirley embarks on a passionate affair with Costas, a local Greek man, and realizes that there is more to life than the dull, mundane existence she leads back home in Liverpool.
Making a radical decision, she leaves her friend at the airport and goes back to the hotel she has been staying at to ask for a job.
Finally, she is living the life she has dreamed of and rediscovered the self-confidence she has lost.
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Good news re John Goudge’s classes, the junior and adult classes are full, with waiting lists.
An excellent result.
However, there are still some places available for the teenage class, ages 13-17, two ten-week terms, classes from 5.50pm to 7.30pm each term-time Monday, $120 per term.
An excellent result.
However, there are still some places available for the teenage class, ages 13-17, two ten-week terms, classes from 5.50pm to 7.30pm each term-time Monday, $120 per term.
John Goudge Drama Classes at Titirangi Theatre
starting July 2018
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.
starting July 2018
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
Our Titirangi Theatre 2018 Programme has been published
Look forward to a great year of excellent theatre!
Look forward to a great year of excellent theatre!
13 - 24 March
The Savage Dilemma
by John Patrick
Director: Ami Coster
Billed by its author as a “comic fantasy” this play brims with warmth, wisdom and wonderful characters. Set in “The Cloisters” a refuge for people disturbed by the outside world, it explores the charming realities of the guests and the effect they have on visitors needing a retreat. Warm, inspiring and uplifting.
Ami has a directing diploma from NIDA, Sydney and has been involved in teaching the creative arts as therapy in a number of fields. She has directed youth, musical and dramatic plays around Auckland and is an experienced film and stage actor. We are delighted to welcome her talents to Titirangi.
The Savage Dilemma
by John Patrick
Director: Ami Coster
Billed by its author as a “comic fantasy” this play brims with warmth, wisdom and wonderful characters. Set in “The Cloisters” a refuge for people disturbed by the outside world, it explores the charming realities of the guests and the effect they have on visitors needing a retreat. Warm, inspiring and uplifting.
Ami has a directing diploma from NIDA, Sydney and has been involved in teaching the creative arts as therapy in a number of fields. She has directed youth, musical and dramatic plays around Auckland and is an experienced film and stage actor. We are delighted to welcome her talents to Titirangi.
5 - 16 June
Dead Man’s Cellphone
by Sarah Ruhl
Director: Duncan Milne
Hunched over a bowl of soup at lunch one day, the mousy-looking Jean becomes flustered, then irritated, then quietly outraged as the phone of a man across the way trills insistently. He makes no move to answer, so Jean gingerly approaches, only to find that the man is not afflicted with rudeness but with a mild case of rigor mortis. The phone continues to ring. And as Jean will later say with mournful truth, a ringing phone demands to be answered. So she flips it open.
“Hello?” Pause. A sidelong glance at the guy who failed to fog a spoon. “No, he’s not. Can I take a message?”
An oddball but beguiling comedy from a modern English playwright.
Duncan has been Titirangi Theatre’s technical manager for many years with a flair for creative lighting. He turned to directing two years ago with two successful productions and is currently the scenic construction lead for the Pop-up Globe.
Dead Man’s Cellphone
by Sarah Ruhl
Director: Duncan Milne
Hunched over a bowl of soup at lunch one day, the mousy-looking Jean becomes flustered, then irritated, then quietly outraged as the phone of a man across the way trills insistently. He makes no move to answer, so Jean gingerly approaches, only to find that the man is not afflicted with rudeness but with a mild case of rigor mortis. The phone continues to ring. And as Jean will later say with mournful truth, a ringing phone demands to be answered. So she flips it open.
“Hello?” Pause. A sidelong glance at the guy who failed to fog a spoon. “No, he’s not. Can I take a message?”
An oddball but beguiling comedy from a modern English playwright.
Duncan has been Titirangi Theatre’s technical manager for many years with a flair for creative lighting. He turned to directing two years ago with two successful productions and is currently the scenic construction lead for the Pop-up Globe.
28 August - 8 September
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde
Director: Liz Watkinson
Early 19th century London and a big party is in progress at the home of rising political star, Sir Robert Chiltern and his wife, Lady Gertrude. Wine flowing, diamonds glittering, conversation sparkling; enter Mrs. Cheveley, the most outrageous, the most talked about woman in town. She radiates a menacing charm.
Sir Robert is about to receive a shock. Her purpose is blackmail. She threatens to reveal a secret that will ruin his career and even perhaps his marriage.
Liz has directed for Titirangi since the mid 1980s. Her most recent productions were Little Gem and Ibsen’s Ghosts.
However she particularly loves the classics, and is delighted to be exploring the world of Wildean wit and epigram.
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde
Director: Liz Watkinson
Early 19th century London and a big party is in progress at the home of rising political star, Sir Robert Chiltern and his wife, Lady Gertrude. Wine flowing, diamonds glittering, conversation sparkling; enter Mrs. Cheveley, the most outrageous, the most talked about woman in town. She radiates a menacing charm.
Sir Robert is about to receive a shock. Her purpose is blackmail. She threatens to reveal a secret that will ruin his career and even perhaps his marriage.
Liz has directed for Titirangi since the mid 1980s. Her most recent productions were Little Gem and Ibsen’s Ghosts.
However she particularly loves the classics, and is delighted to be exploring the world of Wildean wit and epigram.
20 November - 1 December
Shirley Valentine
by Willie Russell
Director: John Goudge
Feeling trapped in a world of domesticity, Shirley, a housewife from Liverpool, England, needs a change in her life before she has another conversation with the walls. When her friend Jane invites her on a trip to a Greek island, Shirley jumps at the chance. An empowering, heartwarming story we might remember from the 1989 movie.
John brings a wealth of experience to the stage. She is a teacher of drama and has himself been on stage in Titirangi Theatre many times.
Shirley Valentine
by Willie Russell
Director: John Goudge
Feeling trapped in a world of domesticity, Shirley, a housewife from Liverpool, England, needs a change in her life before she has another conversation with the walls. When her friend Jane invites her on a trip to a Greek island, Shirley jumps at the chance. An empowering, heartwarming story we might remember from the 1989 movie.
John brings a wealth of experience to the stage. She is a teacher of drama and has himself been on stage in Titirangi Theatre many times.
All plays subject to confirmation of rights.
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