Vol. 2 No. 2 Feb 2016 Thanks to Our Supporters
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Vol. 2 No. 2 Feb 2016 THANKS TO OUR SUppORTERS S IPAL NC I R FUNDER P NG I ENT RTNERS S CORE FUNDER PA RE P TY si RTNER VER I FUNDER PA UN Artistic S R E Director's J O R ORT A M pp U Proud to be NZ’s Most Awarded Official Telecommunications Note S Winery and Sponsor of Partner Auckland Theatre Company Artistic Director Colin McColl S IA RTNER MED Happy New Year! Welcome to the satiric and romantic, chock full of PA first play in our 2016 season, Polo, by recognisable and gloriously unusual Dean Parker. characters who long to change their S NG An established film and television lives or change the world. Dean gives I writer, Dean is also one of New them rich muscular dialogue and it’s RTNER PORT P Zealand’s most accomplished and been a delight watching our cast of PA U S prolific playwrights, with stage work experienced and rookie actors relish that ranges across many different this language and and embrace these genres and themes. His last play characters. S Q Theatre for Auckland Theatre Company, Huge thanks to my talented team SKYCITY Theatre Midnight In Moscow, reflected on casual of actors and creatives. We’ve all RTNER Herald Theatre betrayals at the New Zealand Legation enjoyed delving into the Polo world PA 2016 VENUE in Moscow in 1947. It’s a great and, through this play, discovering a pleasure to open our 2016 season with little more about our great city. A trip S the premiere of a new play from Dean. down the North Western motorway Polo sits somewhere between social will never be quite the same. CTOR A ATC Patrons and Supporting Acts satire and a love song to the different Enjoy. 2016 2016 “tribes” of Auckland. It's both sharply BENEF 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 — John Parker 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 Katrina Photograph: 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 Ian Mune, 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.