Season of Play Readings 2012
Circa Theatre and
Playmarket are pleased to present a fantastic array of engaging and
thought-provoking play readings. New works by New Zealand playwrights Ken Duncum, Elspeth Sandys, Joe Musaphia,
Phil Braithwaite, Kathryn Burnett and
Nick Ward will be presented in rehearsed readings, along with Jerusalem
by international award-winning playwright Jez
Butterworth (subject to rights). The readings will take place at Circa once a month from June to November.
Each reading will be helmed by a well-known local theatre director and
performed by a cast of professional actors.
“This collaboration allows the
public to experience a showcase of terrific new plays while they are fresh in development
and to make better use of the resources of both organisations,” says
Playmarket director Murray Lynch.
The schedule for the Circa
Theatre and Playmarket Season of Play Readings 2012 is:
9th June The Train Set by Joe Musaphia
4th
August Honest to God
by Phil Braithwaite
25th August
Rogues and Vagabonds by Elspeth
Sandys
29th September
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (subject
to rights)
27th October
Janet & John
by Ken Duncum
17th November
Mike & Virginia by Nick Ward and
Kathryn Burnett
“We think a season of play
readings is a marvelous opportunity on so many levels, for playwrights, the
Wellington theatre industry and, of course, our patrons,” said
Ray Henwood, Circa Council Co-ordinator. “It is a rewarding and exciting addition to our regular programme and
we are pleased to be working together with Playmarket to make it a reality.”
Susan Wilson will direct the first reading:
The Train Set by Joe Musaphia, starring Christopher Brougham, Nikki
MacDonnell and Gavin Rutherford. It
is set in Berlin,
Germany, 1939. A Jewish couple, Herschel and Vera Stern, are selling up to start a new life in New
Zealand. Among their chattels is a Marklin train set. Herschel is impatient
to leave Hitler’s ‘anti-Semitic hellhole.’ Vera still dreams of ‘my Germany.’
Their young son and daughter are away while they prepare the apartment for the
impending sale. An SS officer knocks on their front door…and demands to see and
play with the train set … a very
powerful and grimly entertaining drama ensues.
The
reading will take place at 2pm on
Saturday, 9 June in Circa Two. Tickets are just $5, and can be purchased at
the Circa Box Office by calling 801-7992 or online at www.circa.co.nz.
For
the detailed information about all of the plays in the 2012 Circa Theatre/Playmarket
Season of Play Readings, please visit http://www.circa.co.nz/site/Shows/Circa-Theatre-Playmarket-Play-Readings-2012.
Circa
Theatre – 1 Taranaki St, Wellington Waterfront.
Bookings:
phone 04 801 7992, email circa@circa.co.nz
or visit www.circa.co.nz
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