Our Shows & Films
NZ Drama School students frequently receive glowing reviews from audiences and critics alike.
Toi Whakaari productions are an opportunity for you to see the stars of tomorrow, today in a diverse mix of excellent theatre - from devised work to classical text, from recent plays to New Zealand films. Our MTA directing students also produce around 20 different works a year.
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2010 40th ANNIVERSARY SEASON
This year we are 40! So to celebrate we have a special line-up of productions, conversations and events for you to choose from. Here, you'll find information and images about the shows we are producing in 2010.
Playing the unplayable
Thu 11 – Sat 13 March
Celebrated German director and actor Harry Fuhrmann comes to New Zealand especially to direct a selection of scenes from stirring and relevant plays that give us a just a glimpse into life as a Jew in Germany during WWII. More...
ATAMIRA
Thu 10 – Wed 16 June
Second year designers and actors collaborate on this 40th Anniversary devised piece celebrating the current home of Toi Whakaari- the building and histories of Te Whaea. More...
GO SOLO 2010
Mon 26 July - Sat 7 August
Go Solo is a collection of new solo shows created and performed by Toi Whakaari final year acting students directed by Toi acting graduate Sophie Roberts. More...
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE by Peter Weiss
Thurs 19– Sat 28 August
Marat/Sade is regarded as one of the definitive works of 20th Century drama. Influences of Artaud and Brecht lie at the heart of this revolutionary piece in which the cast of twenty-five play the inmates of Charenton, the asylum presided over by the Marquis de Sade. More...
TOI CABARET – COMPANY
Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM, Book by GEORGE FURTH
Tues 5 – Sat 9 October
Also celebrating its 40th anniversary this year is Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway hit, Company. We are staging a concert performance of this ground-breaking musical as our 2010 Cabaret at the Museum Hotel directed by Jonathon Hendry. More...
CLASSIC CUTS
Thu 14 – Sat 16 October
Classic Cuts is the first public performance by Toi Whakaari’s first year actors. It is a studio showing of scenes from Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this year with a 40th anniversary flavour. More...
THE POHUTUKAWA TREE by Bruce Mason - graduation season
Wed 20 – Sat 30 October
The Pohutukawa Tree by one of New Zealand’s iconic playwrights, is set in the ‘50s New Zealand, a country on the cusp of change. A proud and spiritual Maori matriarch, Aroha attempts to instruct her children in Pakeha ways. More...
WILD CABBAGE by James Beaumont - graduation season
Thurs 21– Sat 30 October
The second production of our graduation season is an exciting, funny, innovative drama about alienation and urban isolation. Spanning four decades Wild Cabbage traces the efforts of two trendsetting angels and the decrepit Mr G. to reconcile a ‘freak’ with her cabbage-farming family in 1945, when the atomic bomb is dropped. More...
