Top 20

Short+Sweet Auckland 2010

Top 20

Week 1 – January 19th – 23rd
(Tues+Weds 7pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm)
Tickets at http://www.buytickets.co.nz

1. Tone…
ITC: The Outfit Theatre Company
Writer: The Outfit Theatre Company (Auckland)
Director: Peter Coates
Cast: Andrew Ford, Joel Herbert, Gypsy Kauta, Nicole Jorgensen, Holly Bradfield, Devlin Bishop, Toni Rowe, Sarah Graham, Jacqui Nauman, Ema Barton.

Hi, you’ve reached Tone…, an exploration of theatrical phone convention. We’re not in right now, but if you leave your number after the tone we’ll call you back…Beeeeeeeep.

2. The Beauty of It
Writer: Marolyn Krasner, Wellington
Director: Charlie Unwin
Cast: Simon Clark (Man), Amanda Prasow (Woman)

A husband and wife recollect their individual brushes with beauty and life in the Greek Isles. Inspired by the Rufus Wainwright hit, Greek Song.

3. 10,000 cigarettes
Writer: Alex Broun (Australia)
Director: Amanda Rees
Cast: Chelsea McEwen-Millar (Gloria 1), Kate Lumb (Gloria 2), Natasha Davis (Gloria 3), Chloe Lewer (Gloria 4)

The raison d’etre for smoking is pitched by four vibrant young women in this clever comedy with a twist.

4. Borys The Rottweiler
Writer: Christopher Johnson (Australia)
Director: Yuri Kinugawa
Cast: Simon Clark ( Borys)

Sometimes emotion grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you like a dog.
How much can you take before you lose your head?

5. Exit Stage
ITC: Fingerprints & Teeth Productions
Writer: Renee Liang (Auckland)
Director: Gerald Urquhart
Cast: Julia Croft (3), Liesha Ward-Knox (1), Roberto Nascimento (4), Callum Stembridge (2)

The lead actress is having a bad hair day, the director’s just having a bad day… Life imitates art as a play is turned literally inside-out.

INTERVAL

6. The Mooncake and the Kumara
ITC: The Oryza Foundation for the Performing Arts
Director: Kiel McNaughton
Writers: Mei-Lin Hansen & Kiel McNaughton (Auckland)
Cast: Gary Young, Kura Forrester and Ally Xue

1927: In a market garden in Manawatu just before the mid-autumn Moon Festival, a relationship grows between Chao, a Chinese man, and Alice, a Maori girl. But in the shadow is Chao’s wife back in China…

7. Waiting for Jim
Writer: Barry Lakeman (Wellington)
Director: Rachel Forman
Cast: Donogh Rees (52), Josephine Stewart – Tewhiu (32), Olivia Tennet (16)

Waiting for Jim is an exploration of three pivotal events in one woman’s life. It is a story that reminds us it is never to late to start again and that a lot can be learnt from the past.

8. Wild Things
Writer: Michelle Wallace (Australia)
Director: Russell Pickering
Cast: Hera Dunleavy (Mother), Johanna Smith (Aunt), Chloe Lewer (Becca), Sarah Sommerville (Judy)

Becca doesn’t speak. Her Aunt calls her a wild thing and her mother is at her wits end. Until her cousin Judy looks after her. Sometimes, love is more than words.

9. Floor Thirteen
ITC: Fingerprints & Teeth Productions
Writer: Thomas Sainsbury (Auckland)
Director: Thomas Sainsbury
Cast: Ash Jones (Marcel), Roberto Nascimento (Dario), Nic Sampson (Kurt)

No one has been to the thirteenth floor of the Martyn&Wood Building since something horrific, strange and unclear happened on it over a decade ago. That is until tonight . Come witness Dario, an immigrant Italio-Brazilian cleaner, as he reports for cleaning duty on THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR!!!!

10. The Fruits of War
Writer: Earl T Roske (USA)
Director: Jonathan Hodge
Cast: Amelia Guild (Smol), Milo Cawthorne (Yamin)

The littlest things start the biggest conflicts, as the old adage says – He who lives a glass house shouldn’t throw fruit!

Week 2 – January 26th–30th
(Tues+Weds 7pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm)
Tickets at http://www.buytickets.co.nz

1. Mount Head
ITC: The Oryza Foundation for Asian Performing Arts
Writer/Performer: Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Auckland)
Director: Tony Forster

In Rakugo style, with only a handkerchief and a fan, and seated in a traditional Japanese fashion, Hiroshi Nakatsuji tells the surrealistic story of an avaricious cherry eater and the cherry tree that sprouts from his head due to his gluttonous ways.

2. The Example
Writer: Tom Taylor (Australia)
Director: Tainui Tukiwaho
Cast: Matt Haliday (Chris), Te Kaea Beri (Sam)

_Two people. A train station. An unattended briefcase. Prejudice versus Preservation.
In the war on terror, will suspicion and fear be the big winners?_

3. Mandragora
Writer: David Sharpe (Australia)
Director: Louise Tu’u
Cast: Ben Legg (Isaac), Stephanie Liebert (Mother/Mrs Lucas/Paula)

Fast cars, lucid women and …peanut butter. Mandragora lays bare a young man’s memories of a fateful night.

4. Finis
ITC: Meddlers Three Productions
Writer/Director: Garrick Burn (Auckland)
Cast: Mark Harrison (Boyfriend); Stacey Musham (Girlfriend)

Whilst a couple bicker and fight, not only is the future of their fragile relationship on the line, but so too is the ultimate fate of their unborn child

5. Uncomfortable Silences.
Writer. Andrew O’Keefe (Australia)
Director. Vicky Yiannoutsos
Characters: Mark Scott (Nick), Lisa Brickell (Angela)

Nick and Angela have been platonic friends for years. But that’s coming to an end tonight. Uncomfortable Silences is a touching two-hander about the courage it takes to face love.

INTERVAL

6. Four of a Kind
ITC: Headshot Productions
Writers: David Van Horn, Simon London. (Auckland)
Director: Colin Moy
Cast: Fasitua Amosa (Den), Phil Brooks (Adam), Simon London (Chris), David Van Horn (Barnsy), Damien Avery (Ethan)

When the chips are down will you call the bluff, raise the stakes, or have the nuts to go all in? Friendships will be tested. Where do your loyalties lie?

7. Lifetime
ITC: After Eden Theatre Co
Writer: Angie Farrow (Palmerston North)
Director: Lynda Williamson
Cast: Lana Sklenars (Megan), Brendon Kinch (Elliot)

Two random lives intersect and embark on a lifetime of living.

8. The Imaginary Friend
Writer: Neil Troost (Northland)
Director: Jonny Hair
Cast: Stefan James (Roger), Phil Vaughan (Bob), Virginia Frankovich (Karen)

Roger’s imaginary friend Bob is causing chaos in his relationship with Karen.

9. Diagnosis
ITC: Twin Otter
Writer: B.C. Thomson (Auckland)
Director: Cameron Rhodes
Cast: Mia Blake (Sue), Bronwyn Bradley (Lynne)

A humorous exploration of the modern tendency to over medicate!

10. Sleepless Night
ITC: www.DramaTrain.co.nz
Writer: Jonathan Gavin (Australia)
Director: Adam Fresco
Cast: Michael Morris (Simon); Cindy De Wet (Rita); Patricia Hollran (Diana); Tahl Kennedy (Paul) with LIVE music by Henry ‘Midge’ Perez

2 strangers meet and form an instant dislike… So begins a comic odyssey of love, lust and loss spanning years and continents – all in just 10 hectic, hilarious, heart-warming minutes!

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