WELLINGTON

4 – 6 November | 7.00pm

7 November | 3.00pm & 7.00pm

The Decalogue

Director
Uther Dean

Written and produced by
My Accomplice

Cast
Hannah Banks & Paul Waggott

About the play
Ten plays. Ten commandments. Ten minutes.

About the Director
MY ACCOMPLICE (myaccomplice.co.nz), formed in 2009 by Hannah Banks, Uther Dean and Paul Waggott, is an award-winning Wellington-based theatre company. The company formed while completing their BAs in theatre at Victoria University. Since 2009 they have produced fifteen works as a company in a variety of styles and scales.

Last Meals: An Appetizer

Writer
Keely Meechan

Director
Ben Emerson

ITC
Cool, Calm & Collective

Cast
Jessica Old, Hannah Kelly & Keagan Carr Fransch

About the play
“I’m not saying I’m guilty, I’m just not saying I’m not”. Last Meals is gritty, intense, and introduces three women with nothing left to lose. Come and join our female death row inmates as they dine on their Last Meal.
Innocent? Guilty? That’s up to you.

About the ITC
A fresh new company including members from NotreVie Productions – we are aiming to have some fun, make cool shows and drink some wine. Look out for the main course of Last Meals in the 2015 fringe festival!

Blind

Writer & Director
Gina Vanessi

ITC
FOMO Productions

Cast
Sean Fleming, Jessica Coppell & Charlotte Thomas

About the play
The blind are leading the blind through two short scenes that highlight how blind we all are, in different ways.

About the ITC
FOMO noun[feer] [uhv, ov; unstressed uhv or, especially before consonants, uh] [mis-sing] [out] have produced two plays here in Wellington: “Quiver”, at BATs and “Minksie and Ron explore the gap” for the Fringe at Circa. We have an interest in absurdist theatre.

Sir Winston Churchill and Me: A Primer on the Perils of Youth

Writer, Director & Cast
JB Malthus

About the play
James has been unemployed for nearly two years and he’s spent a lot of that time thinking about Winston Churchill and their respective achievements at the age of 24. Is it opportunity that separates the two men, or is James just part of the Worst Generation Ever?

About the Director
JB Malthus is an actor and comedian with the looming spectre of death behind him and a very uncertain future. After finding out that a Bachelor’s degree means nothing in 2015 he has realised that his fortune lays here, in amateur theatre.

Fragments

Writer
Vanessa Immink

Director
Julie O’Brien

Cast
Vanessa Immink
With thanks to Victoria Seymour for hair and make up and Andy Gartrell for music.

About the play
Pat Kirkwood, the most famous war time star nobody has heard of. This show uncovers the former child star’s journey from the West End to a New York asylum and a rumoured affair with Prince Phillip. Who is this woman, and how has she slipped through the cracks of history?

About the Writer
Vanessa Immink is an up and coming theatre practitioner, coming to the end of her degree in Musical Theatre at Whitireia. Her recent performances include Tawata Productions “the beautiful ones” and Circa Theatre’s “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”. Vanessa has also worked on the international touring productions of Singin In the Rain and CATS.

Opening Night

Writer
Lori Leigh

Director
Stella Reid

Cast
Freya Daly-Sadgrove, Daniel Emms, Jonathan Hobman, Jonny Paul, Stevie Hancox-Monk & George Fenn

About the play
An audience eagerly await the opening of a new show. As the curtain draws, it is not quite as they expected, and they start quietly checking the time on their phones, turning to each other in confusion, and waiting for it to be over. With the help of a leader, the audience decide to rebel and perform themselves.

About the writer
After receiving the Dronke Prize at Victoria University, Stella went on to complete her Masters in Directing at Toi Whakaari. In 2013, Stella became the Artistic Director of Long Cloud Youth Theatre. In this role, Stella directed five original works, and an adaptation of Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine, and was the process director for STAB 2015, Dead Men’s Wars.

No Exit

Writer & Director
Brian Hotter

ITC
Shortman Productions

Cast
Brian Hotter & Shaneel Sidal

About the play
NZ as a fundamentalist Christian state. NZ is about to erupt as Australian peacekeepers prepare to exit the country. Insurgence are 99 percent non white and having taken up arms against their oppressors. They have been ghettoised and tortured for their refusal to take on the Christian faith. Four characters take refuge in a shipping container bound for Tasmania, two white one Maori one Indian. The battle for peace continues.

About the Director
Brian Hotter Graduated Toi Whakaari in 2001 as an actor and Victoria Institute of Foreign Letters with a Masters in Creative Writing in 2005. Winner of Chappman Trip Theatre Award for best Wellington Actor in the role of Bob the penguin in Bats STAB production of Heat. After a 10 year hiatus is back with avengance to spore and prosper.

Calm Down/Get Mad

Writer, Director & Cast
Pete Hodkinson

About the play
We live in confusing times; information-overloaded and connected across distances, cultures, philosophies. A divide appears. While embracing principles of loving kindness, of acceptance… avoiding anger, flowing like water… We also need to get angry to spark change, avoiding complacency with injustice. Calm down, Get mad.

About the Director
Pete is a fresh face in New Zealand comedy. He was a finalist in Wellington’s Raw Comedy Quest and grand finalist in Wellington’s ‘Last-Comic-Standing’, both in his debut year. Charming and energetic, ready to muse, confuse and amuse. Pete’s chasing the comedy dream, will he catch it? Watch this space.

Conspiracy Theory

Writer & Director
Shaneel Sidal

Cast
Shaneel Sidal & Brian Hotter

About the play
“What is said behind closed doors, stays behind closed doors”.
A show that plays with Conspiracies of what is going on around one man’s world and his Opinions. Crazy? Crazy isn’t always crazy.

About the Director
Shaneel Sidal was born in Suva, Fiji and immigrated to NZ when he was 4. Living in NZ has moulded him into a creative person who is excited in writing and performing in his solo show, A Toi Whakaari Graduate, he “feels so privileged to be working in the industry, you never know what to expect”.

The Oresteia

Writer & ITC
The Aztecs

Director
Samuel Phillips

Cast
Keagan Carr Fransch, Karin McCracken, Tom Clarke & Pippa Drakeford on Projection

About the play
A new adaptation of Aeschylus’ greatest and final play.
Orestes turns on his phone after his final law exam to find a text from his Mum: “Something has happened, please come home”.
Winner best theatre, Dionysia festival 458 BC.

About the ITC
The Aztecs did two-day plays, and had a great time.
They have conceived of, written and rehearsed this piece collaboratively. For this project, The Aztecs are James Cain, Jane Younge, Karin McCracken, Sasha Tilly, Tom Clarke, Pippa Drakeford, Ryan Knighton, Keagan Carr Fransch and Samuel Phillips.

The Warrior, Rogue, or Mage?

Writer, Director & Cast
Kenneth Gaffney

About the play
You are a Hero on a magical quest. What will your decisions be, will you escape doom? Choose your path, will you face the Dragon, or run?

About the Director
Kenneth is an Actor trying to make a show inspired from a love of Role Playing Games. A Nelson boy, and Toi Whakaari Graduate he intends to make work that is fun, and is an experience for the audience.