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1 CAST Gillian Hancock — Lisa Chappell Jaap Du Plessis — Harry McNaughton Mungo Hancock — Adam Gardiner Sally Hunt — JJ Fong Matiu — James Maeva Kerrisk Redinton — Taylor Barrett Annabel Redinton — Katrina Wesseling Harper Hancock— Hannah Paterson Amber — Kalyani Nagarajan

CREATIVE Director — Colin McColl Set Designer — Costume Designer — Lucy Jane Senior Lighting Designer — Phillip Dexter MSc Sound Designer — Sean Lynch

PRODUCTION Production Manager — Andrew Malmo Company Manager — Elaine Walsh Stage Manager — Youra Hwang Assistant Stage Manager — Jordan Keyzer Technical Manager — Jamie Blackburn Technical Operator — Rochelle Bond Props Master — Amy Snape Set Construction — 2construct Sound Engineer — Arran Eley VT — Emmanuel Dorcil Flyman — Michael Keating

AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY WOULD LIKE TO thank the following for their help with this production: AUT University ICT, Staff of SKYCITY Theatre, Maidment Theatre, Ticketek, Farmers, Liz Mitchell, Karen Walker, World, Kate Sylvester, Third Eye, Gorman, Caitlin Bevan, Michael Weston, Westbury Stud, Auckland Polo Club, Derek Ward, Ailsa Scott, Rebekah McKenna, Jade McCann, Derek Hill, David Kelly, Jude Froude, and Juggernaut.

Polo is the first Auckland Theatre Company mainbill production for 2016 and opened on Feb 13th at SKYCITY Theatre. The production is approximately 1 hour 40 minutes plus a 20 minute interval. Please remember to switch off all mobile phones, pagers and watch alarms.

2 “A polo handicap is a passport to the world”

­— Winston Churchill A Bluffer’s Guide fact-check

he culture of polo is rich and varied. Sound like you know what injury time is the patron system of polo, in which you’re talking about, even if you think a chukka is something the Polo can be a dangerous pastime. wealth guarantees you a game. Actor TAustralians do in cricket. For instance, a quick tally of Prince Tommy Lee Jones is one such patron. Charles’ polo injuries include: fact and fiction all right here unconscious in 2001; six stitches shirt on your back So you’ve read Jilly Cooper’s There’s no such thing as a left- in his left cheek in 1980; lost his Polo’s fashion legacy is the polo shirt. Rutshire chronicles, most notably handed player. They were banned voice for 10 days in 1981 after being When the British were playing the Polo, but don’t assume the riders in the mid-1930s, unbanned after hit in the throat; collapsed with game in India in the late 19th century, are cads. Far from it. Most wouldn’t WWII, then banned again in 1974. dehydration after a match in 1980; the cotton long-sleeved shirts of dream of underhand tactics to get a So, any left-handers must swing the broke his right arm in two places in the time would flap about at full goal, or any of that other carry-on mallet with their right hand because 1990 and had to have a metal plate gallop. They attached collars with Jilly’s characters get up to. it’s too dangerous a game to worry inserted; hurt his back several times buttons to stop this. French tennis which side a mallet’s swinging. after falls and now has a serious great Jean Rene Lacoste is credited degenerative disc problem. with inventing the modern polo. a Shoe-in He designed tighter fitting shirts in You will be required to Stomp club ties yes, prime minister breathable pique cotton and wore the Divots at half-time. This John-Paul Clarkin is playing for Winston Churchill played polo into one to play in the 1926 US Open. It tradition means all spectators Tiger Building in the Land Rover his 50s and wouldn’t let a little thing caught on. American designer Ralph must be ready to rush onto the NZ Polo Open. He is a member like a dislocated shoulder stop him Lauren is almost single-handedly field for five minutes of furious of Cirencester Park Polo Club in playing. He’d simply play with one responsible for taking the sport shirt divot-stomping. Divots are the England. Other members include arm strapped to his waist. to the masses as a must-have for clumps of turf that have been kicked The Duke of Cambridge and Prince leisurewear when, in 1972, he called up during play. Your job is to make Harry, who both play off a 1-goal his new casual-wear label Polo. The the grass smooth again. Many feet handicap, if you’re keen on casually buy your own rest, as they say, is history. make light work. dropping that into a conversation Not quite a 6-goaler? Never fear. You during the day. could buy a team and play in it. This © Land Rover NZ Polo Open Magazine 2016

4 5 Hidden Gems of Auckland BY ruth spencer

hey say when you’re tired Underground rumblings also of Auckland, you’re tired feature at The Bunker. North Head’s Tof life. Well, they don’t, tunnels are mostly pitch-dark but they should. Auckland isn’t concrete chambers, but one hides merely property and polo; it offers the Devonport Folk Music Club. With many delightful secrets to those the exterior ambiance of an ablution who step off the beaten path. block, inside there’s cosy folk music, mic-less open mic nights and free Deep in Oakley Creek Reserve, a Milo at half time. It’s the done thing delicate curtain of water meets a to sing along once you’ve picked limpid pool beneath. Oakley Creek up the words, or, judging by some Falls is the only waterfall in Auckland contributions, before. City. It’s worth the stroll just for the Dodgy singing abounds in the brazen rabbits lolloping along the Waitakere Ranges. Released pets or paths, particularly if you have a dog the world’s least likely storm-tossed that enjoys going insane. waifs, Sulfur Crested Cockatoos That’s not our only urban water flock there. If you’ve ever wanted to feature. Auckland’s motorway system visit Jurassic Park, a walk in the bush glitters with over ninety mirror- punctuated by deafening prehistoric finished ponds, nestled in lush screeching could be the adrenaline banks of flax and grasses. Romantic trip you’re looking for. and practical, they’re stormwater For more unusual specimens try ponds, holding excess rain and the McGregor Zoological Museum, filtering runoff before it can flood our the University of Auckland’s biology waterways, ensuring the only heavy teaching collection. Professor metal bothering you comes from the McGregor was the Indiana Jones of battered Commodore in the next lane. New Zealand’s taxidermy circuit, You can’t access the ponds so stay leading intrepid field trips into in the car and head to the old concrete the wilds of Papua New Guinea in works quarry at Warkworth. Once the 1920s. The animal specimens

Photograph: Katrina Wesseling supplier of concrete to Auckland’s are fascinating, but the model of sewers, it’s now a swimming lake. bladderwort done in gelatin must be The works’ crumbling towers are the viewed to be believed. Ditto the real closest thing we have to Roman ruins, human skeleton, identity unknown: and best of all, they’re reportedly “the subject of the origin of such haunted. Enter at night, if you dare, for remains was largely avoided when unusual lights, screams and the truly purchasing”. Indeed. terrifying hum of a spectral generator.

6 7 Dean Parker playwright

ean is a screenwriter and playwright based in Auckland Dand winner of the inaugural Playmarket Award in 2012. His plays include Midnight in Moscow, The Tigers Of Wrath, Other People's Wars, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The Perfumed Garden, The Man That Lovelock Couldn't Beat, Baghdad Baby!, The Hollow Men and Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. Parker has won screenwriting awards for the big-screen comedy Came a Hot Friday (adapted from the novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson), which he co-wrote with , for the Welsh-Kiwi rugby tale Old Scores which he co-wrote with Greg McGee, Left Field wines, and for the television depiction of life in newly-deregulated New birthplace of Zealand, Share The Dream. He wrote the feature Life's a Riot the unexpected, for television, and with Greg McGee co-created the '80s trucking series Roche and the gold mining drama Gold. the weird and the

wonderful. Enjoy Left Field responsibly. leftfieldwines.com

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LF1504-861_atc_advert_210x148mm.indd 2 16/04/15 1:05 PM Lisa Chappell Harry McNaughton Adam Gardiner GILLIAN HANCOCK JAAP DU PLESSIS MUNGO HANCOCK

isa is an actress, writer and A regular with Auckland Theatre arry is an actor and writer dam Gardiner’s first production singer best known for her Logie Company, Lisa’s theatre credits based in Auckland and working with Auckland Theatre Company winning role as Claire Mcleod in include Fallen Angels, All My Sons, Hbetween NZ and America. was in 2003 with performances L He has loved working with Auckland A Mcleod’s Daughters and Chelsea in Gloss. The Homecoming, Much Ado About in Play 2.03, New Gold Dream, and Other television and film highlights Nothing, Educating Rita, The Vagina Theatre Company, particularly in The Ladies Night. He has worked for the include The Cult, for which she won a Monologues, Design For Living, The 39 Twits and Calendar Girls. He tries to company on numerous productions and Qantas TV & Film Award, Coffin Rock, Steps, The Importance of Being Earnest, balance stage work with his television in various capacities since then, his most City Life, Desperate Remedies, Stingers, Mike and Virginia, The Herbal Bed, work on shows such as Shortland Street recent appearances being Other Desert Small Claims and Rescue Special Ops. Chicago and The Motor Camp. and Step Dave, scriptwriting and story Cities, Midnight In Moscow, Black Confetti, When Lisa isn’t acting she writes. editing for Shortland Street, playwriting, In The Next Room (Or The Vibrator Play) In 2008, Lisa wrote and recorded a "I’m thrilled to be working with voice work and dancing with the and Rupert. This year Adam will appear folk/country album “When Then Is ATC again and to be directed by Dynamotion troupe. on screen in features Mahana and Now” and, more recently, wrote and Colin who has helped me realise The Rehearsal, the mini-series Hillary, produced a trilogy of plays - Fred, a character who is diametrically and The Roman Empire for Netflix. On/Off and Bad Day Insurance - which opposed to me in every way!" This is his third time performing in a critics described as “wildly imaginative, Dean Parker play, having also appeared highly entertaining and unique.” in Midnight in Moscow and The Hollow Men.

10 11 JJ Fong James Maeva Taylor Barrett Hannah Paterson SALLY HUNT MATIU KERRISK redinton HARPER hancock

has worked in many creative ames completed his theatre and aylor is a recent graduate olo is Hannah’s debut with disciplines as a dancer, singer, screen training at Te Wananga from Toi Whakaari NZ Drama Auckland Theatre Company. choreographer, actress and O Aotearoa in 2003-2005, and School. Taylor was born and POriginally from Wellington, JJ J T Hannah began her theatre training at presenter. She trained at the Wellington Unitec in 2010-2011. He has numerous bred in Invercargill Southland. His Performing Arts Centre in Commercial credits in various capacities for local recent acting credits include Bennett Victoria University where she completed Dance and Musical Theatre and "fell independent productions. Some of his Francis in the Fortune Theatre's award- a BA in Theatre and Philosophy. In into" acting, which she loves. Her screen theatre credits include Verbatim(2004), winning show Punk Rock, for which he 2013 she made the move to Auckland credits include Go Girls (series 5), Step Strange Children (2005), The Hospital was nominated for the 2015 Best Male to continue her training at The Actors’ Dave, web-series Flat3, and short film at the Time of the Revolution (2011) and Performance Award, Jordan in Officer Program, under the guidance of many Cradle by Four Knights Production the WW1 Cook Islands tribute play 27, William and Duke Fredrick in As You of New Zealand’s most well-respected Company. Her theatre credits include Tamatoa in 2015. James has also been Like It, Simon the Zealot in The Last days theatre and screen practitioners. Man in a Suitcase with the Court Theatre, cast with Auckland Theatre Company of Judas Iscariot and Lee Harvey Oswald Theatre credits include Camino Real Girl in Tan Boots directed by Janice Finn for the 2016 Giltrap Audi Season of in Assassins. In 2010 he was part of the and Tiny Deaths. She has also recently and Rupert with Auckland Theatre To Kill a Mockingbird. NZ Young Shakespeare Company that appeared on screen playing Cassie on Company last year. performed Macbeth; he played the title TV3’s Funny Girls. JJ has a production company with "It's a very exciting opportunity to role at the Globe Theatre in London, three fellow friends in the industry work with the Auckland Theatre England. Taylor is making his Auckland called Flat3 Productions. The company Company on the world premiere Theatre Company debut as Kerrisk has released short film Sugar Hit (made of Polo. Dean Parker has given us a Redinton in Polo. for K-Road Stories), and has an upcoming script that is so refreshingly funny web-series, Friday Night Bites; both were it's easy to see why this scandal- made with the support of NZ on Air. infested piece is a must watch. This is JJ's second show with Auckland Combine that with our amazing Theatre Company. director, and a super-talented cast and crew, and we have ourselves a world premiere that will keep audiences thoroughly amused."

12 13 Katrina Wesseling Kalyani Nagarajan ANNABEL amber

olo is Katrina’s first mainstage show alyani is a recent graduate of Toi with the Auckland Theatre Company. Whakaari New Zealand Drama PPreviously she has performed in K School. She has been acting Thinning, Cow and The Sleep Over as a part from a young age and began her passion of Auckland Theatre Company’s youth for comedy and clown in Auckland programme. In 2014 Katrina completed Theatre Company's Next Big Thing four months intensive training at The John Festival, where she played a 90 year old Bolton Theatre School where she explored SAS agent/checkout chick. Lecoq’s training techniques, developing Kalyani studied Mask, Moliere skills in Neutral Mask, Basle Mask, Mime, and Melodrama at Ecole Phillipe Bouffon, Clown and Vaudeville. Katrina Gaulier in France, and has been a part is the Co-Founder of Petit Workshop, an of workshops with clown Dr Brown. innovative and visual theatre company. She has a passion for comedy and is She devised and performed in The Soldier’s in the process of creating a work for Heart and The Feathered Girland The Two the NZ Comedy Festival in May. She’s Farting Sisters. also working with Indian Ink Theatre Her most recent theatre experience Company to create her own solo work, involves devising and hosting Trash to which she began creating in her first Fashion 2015 with Red Leap Theatre, year of drama school. devising and performing in Puzzle and Kalyani is very passionate about Just Above the Clouds with The People Who her culture and representing her Play With Theatre, and performing in background in the New Zealand arts Tiny Deaths directed by Sam Brooks and industry. She has practiced Bharatha written by Uther Dean. Katrina’s recent Natyam (Indian classical dance) for 14 screen experience involves South Pacific years and is currently very interested in Picture’s Nothing Trivial, Maori Television’s the study of accents. She has currently Find Me a Maori Bride, Peter Hayne’s mastered Cantonese, South African, webseries AFK, a recurring role in the Indian and Boston among others. festival selected webseries Flat3 and a Best Kalyani would like to devise work Actress nomination for her performance and create comic yet heart-warming in Dear Mum as part of the 2013 48hour pieces that can give life and dignity to Film Festival. Katrina is excited to bring the ordinary characters in society that the naughty Annabel to life and to work often get overlooked. with this riotous team.

14 Because we love Auckland, we want it to be better. Because the best schools aren’t good enough and the worst ones need a revolution. Because the politicians get it wrong and so do the academics and the lawyers and the cops and the artists and the banks. Not always, but too often, so things need to be said. Exposed. Argued. Colin McColl director Laughed at. Because there are so many good things to , and wear, and see and hear eat olin has directed for the The World, Mary Stuart, August: Osage and be a part of (and sometimes they’re Norwegian National Theatre County, The Pohutukawa Tree, Cat on a Cand the Dutch National Hot Tin Roof, The Female of The Species, not as good as they should be either, which Theatre, as well as leading New Where We Once Belonged, End of The Zealand and Australian theatre Rainbow, The Crucible, Hatch or The also needs to be said). Because we cherish companies, and is the only New Plight of The Penguins, Doubt, Disgrace, Zealand director to be invited to The Duchess of Malfi, Equus, Goldie, so many of the people of this city, and we present his work at the official Waiting for Godot, Serial Killers, The Edinburgh Festival. His production Seagull, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern want to tell you about them and show of Hedda Gabler played there Are Dead and Uncle Vanya. them to you. Because of all this: Isn't it time to great acclaim and was also Opera directing credits include presented at the Ibsen Festival in Quartet (New Zealand International you picked up a copy of the latest Metro Oslo, the Covent Garden Festival Arts Festival 2004), La Boheme in London, and the 1991 Sydney (Wellington City Opera), The magazine? Festival. Colin has also won Best Italian Girl in Algiers, The Marriage Director at the Chapman Tripp of Figaro and The Prodigal Child for Theatre Awards several times, the NBR New Zealand Opera. In including for his production of 2009 he remounted his production On sale now. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? of The Italian Girl in Algiers for the His many productions for Scottish Opera. Auckland Theatre Company include In November 2007, Colin The Ladykillers, A Doll's House, Paniora!, was honoured for his artistic Other Desert Cities, The Good Soul achievements and excellence at the of Szechuan, Anne Boleyn, Midnight eighth annual Arts Foundation of in Moscow, Lord of The Flies, Awatea, New Zealand Laureate Awards and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, In The was made an Officer of the New Next Room (Or The Vibrator Play), Zealand Order of Merit in June Calendar Girls, On The Upside Down of 2010.

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2016 ATC Metro Ad.indd 1 25/01/2016 10:13:28 a.m. John Parker Sean Lynch set designer sound designer

ohn Parker is an award- Other works include , ean Lynch has been working Lighting: Happy Days, I Love winning set designer and is as Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, in NZ professional theatre You Bro, Bard Days Night, Thom Jwell-respected in the world of The Scene, Creditors, Il Trovatore, Sfor over twenty years. He is Paine, Private Lives, Brel, Speaking in ceramics as he is in set design. He True West, The Threepenny Opera, Chess, a musician, actor, lighting and Tongues and Chicago. is a member of the International Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, sound designer. 2014 designs included Angels Academy of Ceramics (Geneva). Twelfth Night, F.i.l.t.h, Assassins, He was a founding member in America, and Belleville for Silo He has a long history of designing Waiora, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Decadence, of Electra Theatre Company in Theatre, Once on Chunuk Bair and for Auckland Theatre Company. On The Razzle, Chicago, The Marriage of Hamilton, and is currently working Jesus Christ Superstar for Auckland His set designs include A Shortcut to Figaro, Barber of Seville, Cosi Fan Tutte, in Auckland, where he is enjoying Theatre Company. Happiness, Red, Mary Stuart, Stepping Evita and Trash to Fashion. designing for some of New Zealand's Last year he designed for Out, The Importance of Being Earnest, John has also designed for The top theatre companies. Silo’s acclaimed production of The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Louis Vuitton Ball and The America's Previous designs include Hudson & Halls Live, The Book of Sleep, The 25th Annual Putnam County Cup Ball, Bendon's Next To Nothing, Sound: Havoc In The Garden, Everything, Live Live Cinema's Little Spelling Bee, End of The Rainbow, Sweet Bellsouth Pharaohs, Precious Legacy Flintlock Musket, Yours Truly, I Love Shop of Horrors and Fallout for Last Charity, Doubt, Mum's Choir, Taking Off, and Peru: Gold and Sacrifice for the You Bro, Tribes, The Pitchfork Disney Tapes Theatre. Equus, Caligula, The Bach, Middle Age Auckland Museum. He was awarded a and The Heretic. Spread, The Rocky Horror Show, Noises Waitakere City Millennium Medal for Off, Waiting For Godot, Rosencrantz and Services to the Community. In 2010 Guildernstein Are Dead, Into The Woods John was made an Arts Laureate by the and The Glass Menagerie. New Zealand Arts Foundation.

18 19 I adjusted to my right again, and Lucy Jane Senior yet again, to give her even more Phillip Dexter MSc costume designer “room as she continued her course lighting designer towards me. This was ridiculous, I thought, surveying the entire wide, ucy Jane is a fashion stylist empty sidewalk. I came to an abrupt hillip’s previous lighting At The Wake (Centrepoint Theatre), by day. She designed the halt (what choice did I have?) and designs for Auckland Theatre Lucia Di Lammermoor and Turandot Lcostumes for Auckland Theatre looked at her, for she was a mere six PCompany include Rupert, (NZ Opera). Company’s production of Other inches away from me now, in spite The Ladykillers, The Good Soul of While based in London, Phillip’s Desert Cities. of the vast expanse to her right. She Szechuan, Other Desert Cities, Lord international work included Dressing the tribes of Auckland caught my eye and kept my gaze of The Flies, A Shortcut to Happiness, designs at Donmar Warehouse, for the biggest event on the social while she deliberately and not at all In The Next Room (Or The Vibrator The Globe, Hampstead Theatre, The calendar is no different to dressing gently grazed my left arm with her Play), Calendar Girls, Mary Stuart, Royal Opera House - Covent Garden, the tribes of any other city. At the magnificent handbag. Poor Boy, Le Sud, Equus, The Blonde Opera Conservatory - Royal College bottom of a few glasses of wine, the I had been charged. At least this The Brunette and The Vengeful of Music. carefully edited layers of adornment, is how it felt to the anthropologist in Redhead, Doubt and Up for Grabs. Phillip is director of Limeburner purchased at the mall kiosk or from a me. I came to some conclusions. Chief He works regularly for all the Design Ltd (www.limeburner.co.nz), boutique get piled into the same lost among them: women on the Upper major theatre companies in New which specialises in theatre and property box. East Side, particularly women in their Zealand. Recent productions architectural lighting design. thirties and women on the downhill include God of Carnage, Four Flat Training includes a Master of slope of middle age, are utterly attuned Whites in Italy, Death and The Maiden Science in light and lighting from to and obsessed with power. Their (Newmarket Stage), Rock ‘N’ Roll UCL, London. Product design message was clear. It was not simply (Circa Theatre), Don Juan in Soho, includes lighting instruments for "get out of my way" but something more Lucky Numbers (Fortune Theatre), film recently used on the studio pointed: "I don't see you. Because you Long Day’s Journey Into Night, components of Avatar and The Lion, don't even exist." Oliver! (The Court), The Graduate, The Witch and The Wardrobe. - Primates of Park Avenue a memoir Dracula, The Goat (Downstage),

20 21 The Year Ahead

2016 marks the year we will finally Once we take ownership of the see the doors of our new home, building we will start our three the ASB Waterfront Theatre, open month commissioning period and fit- to the public and we could not be out process. This will be an extremely more excited about the changes busy time for the Company as we The ASB it will bring about for both the strive to ensure every aspect of the Waterfront Company and the Auckland theatre is operating smoothly come Theatre is now performing arts scene. opening night. weathertight Then finally, in October, after Photograph: he Hawkins Construction team five years of lobbying, fundraising Hawkins Construction remained hard at work over the and building, ASB will present Tsummer break and as a result the Auckland Theatre Company the exterior of the building is finished production of Billy Elliot The Musical. and the cedar cladding and roof work This will be our most ambitious Thanks to our supporters of the is largely completed. As the building show staged to date and we feel it is is now weather-tight, all the outdoor the perfect way to kick off Auckland Foundation Partners scaffolding has been removed and the Theatre Company’s arrival to the crew are shifting their focus to the Wynyard Quarter and the opening of interior of the theatre and the first fix the ASB Waterfront Theatre. electrical and mechanical installations. With all of this said and done, Similarly, the plumbing and sprinkler we are continuing to fundraise for works are underway and the GIB fixing a number of fit-out items needed to Major Funders has substantially progressed. The guarantee a state-of-the-art theatre and bleacher flooring is nearly complete offer seamless customer experiences and the team are due to start installing for our patrons. If you would like the lifts in the next month. to donate and help us complete this We are on track to reach practical legacy for the Company and for completion by Monday 18 July. Also, Auckland, please do so now by visiting in July, we will be launching the www.asbwaterfronttheatre.co.nz or upcoming 2016/17 season. The new calling the ATC Development Team season will start in October with on 09 309 0390. More information on an end-of-year musical and include the ASB Waterfront Theatre Founders a brand new programme of work Club and how to Take A Seat is available surrounding our new home, so keep over the page. your eyes and ears peeled for the Founding Benefactors, To find out more or for information on how to donate visit announcement. Patrons and Donors www.asbwaterfronttheatre.co.nz or call 09 309 0390

22 23 Giving to the

Over the past five years we have raised an impressive $35 million to fund the construction of the ASB Waterfront Theatre; however, this does not mean our job is over. We are still in the process of raising the further $1 million required for the fit-out-items needed to complete this incredible facility and we need your help to do so.

e have a range of ways you TAKE A SEAT: can show your support for We are inviting theatre-lovers to Wthe ASB Waterfront Theatre, engrave their name in theatre history and all donations are fully receipted by Taking a Seat in the ASB Waterfront for tax deduction purposes. Theatre for a donation of $1,000. Take a Seat supporters will have their Join The Asb Waterfront name and message placed on a seat Theatre Founders Club: plaque and will receive an invitation The Founders Club is a group of to an exclusive champagne reception highly committed people who are and seat unveiling evening upon the passionate about creating this world- theatre’s completion, prior to the class performing arts venue as a opening season. legacy for Auckland. In recognition Please note there are a limited of their investment, members will not number of seats available and only be given the chance to experience instalment payments are happily taste of new zealand everything this incredible facility has accepted. For more information on to offer before anyone else, they are Taking a Seat please contact ATC also afforded name recognition in the Development Executive, Alex Little – enjoy the stunning 360-degree views of auckland over a delicious theatre in perpetuity, and invitations [email protected] or 09 309 0390 ext 266. kapiti cheeseboard and bottle of cloudy bay pelorus nv for only $70. to opening programme events and other special occasions. MAKE A ONE OFF DONATION: The levels of investment for the All donations, regardless of size, make package includes: Founders Club begin at $5,000, a huge difference to our fundraising - one kapiti cheeseboard to share which can be paid in instalments to efforts. Over the past few years we maximise tax effectiveness. For more have accumulated tens of thousands - one bottle of cloudy bay pelorus nv information on becoming a Founders of dollars through smaller one-off - sky tower admission for two adults Club member, please contact ATC donations, proving the power of Development Manager, Linden collective private giving. So whether (normally $28 per adult) Tierney – [email protected] or 09 309 it is $10 or $100, any contribution you 0390 ext 272. can make to help us build our new simply present your polo ticket at the orbit reservations desk on the day of the show home is greatly appreciated. One-off (up to two hours prior to show time) to reedem this offer. donations can be made via our website at www.asbwaterfronttheatre.co.nz. Offer available 11-28 February 2016 to Polo ticket holders, subject to availability. Two adults must be present to redeem this offer. Offer includes a 20% discount off full-priced Cloudy Bay Pelorus NV and approximately 80% discount on the cheeseboard and Sky Tower admission. R18 for the service of alcohol. Host Responsibility limits apply. 24 7441

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ASB presents The Auckland Theatre Company The Book of Stag Weekend The ABC with Macbeth Winston’s production of Everything by Dan Bain & Honora Lee by William Shakespeare Birthday Brendon Bennetts Billy Elliot Adapted by Richard Tulloch by by Paul Baker Court Theatre from the novel by Guus Kuijer Adapted and directed The Musical Centrepoint Theatre by Jane Waddell 5 – 26 March Fortune Theatre Music by Elton John Q Theatre 1 April – 14 May 12 March – 2 April Book and Lyrics by Lee Hall Driven by his ambitious 12 – 25 February Circa One A stag party hunting trip wife, Lady Macbeth, Secrets are revealed, ASB Waterfront Theatre to the Tararuas for four 27 February - 26 March Thomas sees things that Macbeth's idea of being resentments released and overconfident and under- From October 7 others don’t — a plague of king grows into an all- new understandings formed qualified city boys becomes A charming exploration green frogs, a hailstorm in consuming desire for in this fresh and funny increasingly dangerous of kindness, patience and A regular eleven-year- summer, tropical fish in the power. After murdering perspective on an iconic and - and hilarious - as they acceptance, it explores old lad, Billy discovers canals of Amsterdam. He’s the King, our protagonist larger-than-life family. the relationship between he prefers a ballet class to keeping a diary, The Book fumble towards discovering takes the throne, young Perry and her It’s 1962 – the Beatles his regular boxing lesson. of Everything, in which he what it means to be a dispatching all that get eccentric Gran, Honora have their first hit, James While boys doing ballet records all that he sees. One Kiwi bloke in 2016. It's an in his way. But the witches Lee, who’s losing her Bond his first film – and is an issue for his macho day, he writes his greatest unwise combination of have another prophecy: memory and lives in the Randolph Churchill father and brother, Billy wish: “When I grow up, I’m boys, beer and bush. Add one that will end Santa Lucia Rest Home. As is holding a luncheon eventually wins over his going to be happy”. incompetence, insecurities Macbeth’s treacherous more and more words slip th family and the entire and illegal substances and rise to power, one that party to celebrate the 88 Silo Theatre | Auckland from Gran’s grasp, Perry community thanks to the everything that can go wrong will play out to its bitter birthday of his admired furiously gathers them help of his beloved dance does go wrong. The hangover and bloody end. but estranged father. Sir from this stag weekend will up, turning them into an Winston is a fading force teacher and his passion for The Court Theatre | stay with them forever. illustrated and disorderly and there is unfinished dance. Christchurch alphabet book, which business in his loving but Centre Point Theatre | ASB Waterfront Theatre | becomes a gift of love to dysfunctional family. Auckland Palmerston North her grandmother. Fortune Theatre | Dunedin Circa Theatre | Wellington

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Auckland Theatre Engine room Gilli Sutton BLACK PMS 382 Company directing interns Lady Tait Benjamin Henson BOARD OF DIRECTORS Julie and Russell Tills Ahi Karunaharan Chair: Gordon Moller ONZM Kit Toogood and Pip Muir Karen Fistonich Simon Vannini and Anita Killeen

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